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 1870 - 1950 (80 years)
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| Name |
William Walter Ewell |
| Born |
12 Jan 1870 |
Goshen, Utah, Utah, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| AFN |
1HNH-WT |
| Died |
26 Oct 1950 |
Salt Lake City, S-Lk, Ut, USA |
| Buried |
30 Oct 1950 |
Provo, Utah, Utah, USA |
| Person ID |
I16 |
Maxcey Ewell Family |
| Last Modified |
19 Dec 2013 |
| Father |
Francis Marion Ewell, b. 3 Nov 1835, , Ray, Missouri, USA , d. 1 Jan 1904, Spring Glen, Carbon, Utah, USA (Age 68 years) |
| Mother |
Frances Mary Weech, b. 9 Oct 1838, Upton Noble, Somersetshire, England , d. 19 Apr 1916, Wellington, Carbon, Utah, USA (Age 77 years) |
| Married |
27 Jul 1858 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA |
| Notes |
- Marr: EH Sealings to Couples, film 183,395
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| Family ID |
F2 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Elvira Lillian Bigelow, b. 27 Aug 1877, Gunlock, Washington, Utah, USA , d. 12 Dec 1952, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (Age 75 years) |
| Married |
26 Jul 1894 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA |
| Notes |
- Marr: Marriage rec. of Utah Co. FHL 488,399 Bk 2, pg195
SS: FHL 186,206 pg27
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| Children |
| + | 1. Verona Lillian Ewell, b. 15 Apr 1895, Helper, Carbon, Utah, USA , d. 27 Mar 1981, Ukiah, Mendocino, California, USA (Age 85 years) |
| + | 2. Leah Vivian Ewell, b. 9 May 1897, Provo, Utah, Ut, USA , d. 30 Jan 1961, Granger, Salt Lake, Ut, USA (Age 63 years) |
| + | 3. William Lamar Ewell, b. 8 Oct 1898, Provo, Utah, Ut, USA , d. 7 Aug 1949, Arcata, Humboldt, Ca, USA (Age 50 years) |
| + | 4. Lucile Amelia Ewell, b. 3 Jun 1901, Spring Glen, Carbon, Ut, USA , d. 12 Jun 1984, Midvale, S-Lk, Ut, USA (Age 83 years) |
| + | 5. Elvira Fay Ewell, b. 3 Sep 1905, Provo, Utah, Ut, USA , d. 11 Mar 1942, Sandy, S-Lk, Utah, USA (Age 36 years) |
| + | 6. Walter Leon Ewell, Sr, b. 1 Jun 1908, Lake Fork, Duchesne, Utah, USA , d. 13 Apr 1993, West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA (Age 84 years) |
| + | 7. Thelma Alice Ewell, b. 10 Jun 1910, Price, Carbon, Utah, USA , d. 24 Oct 1990, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (Age 80 years) |
| | 8. Erma Frances Ewell, b. 22 Oct 1913, At Mt. Emmons la, Duchesne, Ut, USA , d. 26 Aug 1924, Standardville, Carbon, Utah, USA (Age 10 years) |
| + | 9. Lois Ewell, b. 6 Dec 1917, , Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah , d. 24 Apr 2001, Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah (Age 83 years) |
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| Family ID |
F7 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Birth: Rec of Bapt. of Santaquin Ward FHL 027,323 pg24
Death: Utah State Cert. of Death file # 50- 181903
Bap: by Levi Openshaw, pg 24, Santaquin Ward Rec 027,323
Confirmed: 3 Aug 1879 by Ed W. Clark, in same ward rec
End: FHL 186,067 pg52
SP: 186,206 pg27
History:
Spring Glen Branch, HDC WfT pt1, pg 2, Elder, Priest, Teacher, rebapt. 5 Sep. 1889 by T. Pratt, Recieved from Price 24 Nov 1889
1918 Lived on 235 Hazel Street SLC Utah.
Ref: William Lamar Ewell's WWI draft card listed his father's residence in 1918
He is buried right next to his wife in the Provo City Cemetery.
William's first words were swear words he learned from the mill workers in his father's plant. He usually played on the front porch, but being an adventurous child, one day he wandered off. A mill race ran in front of the the house.
HIs mother and neighbors were frantically searching for him, and thinking he had drowned, had turned off the mill water race water and were looking everywhere they thought the body might have lodged. The boy boy walked up to his mother, from the rear, and pulling on her dress, asked what she was looking for; she almost fainted.
Having a sensitve stomach, Will had a hard time trying different new food. He tried eating bear meat, but said the meat the more he chewed each bite, the bigger it got.
In 1882, the Ewells moved to the Helper, in Spring Glen; where they bought a farm on the Price River. They were some of the first settlers in that part of the country. They raised melons, sugar cane and horse radish, all of which they processed and sold.
At the age of twelve years, Will saw his future wife for the first time, when her family, the Asa Elijah Bigelow's, were moving from Gunlock, Washington County; Utah, to Provo. They had been camping on the river at the Ewell place and Will went down to get acquainted.
While talking to the boys he saw this beautiful little five year old, golden -haired, blue-eyed girl. He never saw her again until he went to the academy at Provo. He lived in the Bigelow home.
Will, as he was always known, owned the first coal mine in Spring Canyon. He found it while rounding up cattle. Not having eithr the money or transportation to move it, he sold the mine to a large company , this mine was later known as the Store's mine.
At the age of seventeen, Will developed diptheria. This sickness was so bad, it destroyed his tonsils and pallet. Thinking he wouldn't live long, his father asked if there was anything he would like to eat. His request was for hamhock and beans. When Will ate them, it seemed to put a coating on his stomach and throat. This put him to sleep and he got better.
An interesting case happened with the Bigelow boys. While they had been camping on the Ewell property they had been sleeping on the ground. When Will's father came to check on them one morning he found mountain lion track's and could see where the lion had lain at the heads of the boys, waiting for one of them to move. A train had come through nearby, during the night, and when it had whistled it scared the cat away.
At the age of nineteen, William went to Provo to attend the Brigham Youth Academy and lived at the home of Asa E. Bigelow. Being a friend of the Bigelow boys, this way a natural place to stay. Lillian and her chums had a natural crush on Will, so when he teased her about not going out with him, she took it seriously. Her brother told him, he better not not disappoint her, and after the first date, they courted, and fell in love.
The first home they occuppied was behind the Ewell store in Spring Glen. They then moved to Tintic, Utah, where Will went into the mining business. From there they moved to Provo.
At the time first child was born with the help of a mid-wife, Mrs. Davis, they were still living at the Ewell store. The next two babies were at Grandma Bigelow's home in Provo. When Vivian was two or 2 1/2, every day about eleven o'clock she would ask for bread and milk. She take it and go to the cottonwoods. Her mother was curious one day, so one she followed her and found her feeding big blow snake. That friendship abruptedly ended.
William died 26 October 1950 of four different heart conditions.
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