LAFAYETTE LONG EWING 1871-1948

CLARK, EWING, JONES, MARTIN

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 6/1/2005 at 14:47:42

LAFAYETTE LONG EWING 1871-1948

Funeral services were held last Wednesday afternoon at the Martin Brothers funeral parlors in Waukon for Lafayette Ewing, 77, life long resident of Post township whose death occurred Monday morning at the home of his niece, Miss Violet Ewing of Waukon, where he had been cared for the past week.

-note: Lafayette Long Ewing, born August 4. 1871, son of Thomas George and Elizabeth (Clark) Ewing, died Oct. 10, 1948. Death Register 5, Pg. 191, Waukon Courthouse. He married Prudence May Jones on July 14,1908. She died February 21, 1931, Death Register 4, Pg. 129, Waukon Courthouse. Lafayette and Prudence had 3 children: Mrs. Lawrence (Effie Marie) Martin, Egbert John Ewing and Eva Jones Ewing. His niece, Miss Violet Ewing, was the daughter of Egbert Hale and Minnie A. (Jones) Ewing.

Postville Herald - contributed by Mary Durr