Rachel EWING ^6,11

	Born: 26 Dec 1785, Greenwich, Cumberland Co., New Jersey 2,11
	Married: 7 Oct 1826, Perry Co., Indiana
	Died: 8 Nov 1833, Perry Co., Indiana 11,33

   General Notes:

There is a reference in a letter from Thomas Ewing to his wife, written from Washington, Nov. 30, 1833 which says, "I have just opened a letter from George containing the melancholy intelligence of the death of my sister Rachel. Her husband, Mr. Thomas died on the 7th and she on the 8th of the present month of the milk sickness, the same poison which took off my uncle Morgan and his daughter. Poor Rachel, the first that is called away of the children of my parents, and one who from constitution and habitual temperament bid most fair to reach a good old age. I have been so long separated from the family, that I have to look back to the days of my boyhood to remember her familiarly and well. In the family I remember she was always remarkable for the steadiness of her habits and the goodness of her temper and disposition. She was a woman too of a superior order of intellect, and had it been profitable for a woman as it is for men, to emerge from obscurity by the force of natural talent, she might have done so. Her life however was tranquil and useful and her end I trust happy."

Jane Hunter Ewing Latimer refers to Rachel in her letters dated Aug. 12, 1827 and Oct. 12, 1829 to Thomas Ewing. She says that Rachel and her husband lived about three miles from the Latimers in Perry County at that time.

Date of birth and death for Rachel comes from the book, GEORGE EWING, GENTLEMAN, A SOLDIER AT VALLEY FORGE, p. 79. This citation indicates that both Rachel and William died of "milk sickness." Perry Co. I N marriage records indicate a marriage date of 7 Oct. 1826 for Rachel and William Thomas. Rachel was age 41 at the time of her marriage.

   Marriage Information:

Rachel married William THOMAS on 7 Oct 1826 in Perry Co., Indiana. (William THOMAS died on 7 Nov 1833 in Perry, IN.)