Ewing, Margaret Sophia (Stevens) -- 1862 - 1946

STEVENS, EWING, SNITKER, SCHUTTA, CRABTREE

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 7/6/2004 at 14:54:51

Mrs. JOHN T. (Margaret Sophia Stevens) EWING 1862-1946

MRS. JOHN EWING, 83, FRANKVILLE PIONEER, PASSES ON FRIDAY

Funeral services for Mrs. John T. Ewing, 83, who passed away Friday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Schutta, at Frankville, were held Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the Schutta home and at 2:30 o'clock in the Frankville Community church. The Rev. Frederick R. Ludwig, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran church of Postville, officiated. Interment was in the Frankville cemetery.

Mrs. Ewing had been in ill health for many years, the past 21 years having been spent in blindness. She had been living with Mr. and Mrs. Schutta since December 4, 1931, and these people tenderly cared for her day and night during the intervening years.

She was born as Margaret Sophia Stevens July 30, 1862, in Ripley county, Indiana, as the daughter of Joseph and Ella Stevens. She was the eldest of six children and with her family came to Winneshiek county in 1866, where she spent the remainder of her lifetime.

She was married to John Thomas Ewing at Waukon on March 13, 1884. To this union were born five children, of whom the following three survive: Mrs. John Snitker (Della) of near Decorah, Mrs. John Schutta (Ellen) of Frankville, and Mrs. Clarence Crabtree (Ethel) on the home farm. Two sons died in infancy. Her husband passed away at the Schutta home on January 24, 1943.

Mrs. Ewing is also survived by an only brother, Emmet Stevens, on a farm near Freeport, to whom she gave a mother's care since he was 11 months old, and eight grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping, hand dated June 1946, from my mother's obituary collection.