Individual Details

After the death of his father, he moved with his brothers and sisters to north of Nashville, Tennesse; then moved to Logan Co KY in 1794.

Logan County KY Deed Book A-1
p.21 18 Feb 1795 Finis Ewing & Peggy, his wife sell 400 acres to Peter Deardorf, part of a tract left to Mary Ewing and Finis Ewing by Robert Ewing, dec'd.

January County Court 1804: Rev. Finis Ewing was allowed License for the purpose of celebrating marriages in Logan County.
Finis Ewing is said to have been one of the founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

They moved to Christian Co (now Todd) about 1811/1812 and lived at Ewingsville post office. In May of 1820, they left for Missouri, settling in Cooper Co. He established a Ewingsville post office again.

Senate Executive Journal, Monday, Apr 23, 1838
Washington, April 20th, 1838
To the Senate of the United States:
I nominate for reappointment the following land officers, whose commissions will expire at the dates respectively affixed to their names:
Finis Ewing to be register of the land office for the district of lands subject to sale at Lexington, in the State of Missouri, from the 25th of May 1838.

1840 Census. Lexington Twp, Lafayette Co MO
Finis Ewing. 1m 20-30, 1m 60-70. 1f 60-70.

Also counted in Lafayette Co were Washington P. Ewing [son] and Chatham S. Ewing [a nephew] and Wm. Y.C. Ewing [probably his cousin once removed].

Birth	10 Jul 1773	Bedford County, Virginia
Marriage	15 Jan 1793	Davidson County, Tennessee - Margaret "Peggy" Davidson
Death	4 Jul 1841	Lexington, Lafayette County, Missouri

Spouse	Margaret "Peggy" Davidson (1774 - 1868)
Child	Winifred Warren Ewing (1794 - 1838)
Child	Sen. William Lee Davidson Ewing (1795 - 1846)
Child	Thompson McGready Ewing (1798 - 1871)
Child	Polly Ewing (1800 - 1800)
Child	Dovey Bryan Ewing (1801 - 1802)
Child	Baxter McGee Ewing (1803 - 1822)
Child	Mary Anderson Ewing (1805 - 1880)
Child	Margaret Davidson Ewing (1807 - 1897)
Child	Pamela Jane Ewing (1809 - 1881)
Child	Finis Young Ewing (1811 - 1891)
Child	Washington Perry Ewing (1814 - 1867)
Child	Robert Chatham Donnell Ewing (1816 - )
Child	Ephraim Brevard\Barnett Ewing (1819 - 1873)

Father	Robert Ewing (1718 - 1787)
Mother	Mary Baker (1725 - 1790)
Sibling	John Ewing (1747 - 1804)
Sibling	Baker Ewing (1750 - 1803)
Sibling	Martha "Patsy" Ewing (1752 - )
Sibling	Sidney Ann Ewing (1756 - 1811)
Sibling	Jane Ewing (1758 - )
Sibling	Gen. Robert E. Ewing (1760 - 1832)
Sibling	Young Ewing (1762 - )
Sibling	Urban Ewing (1767 - 1828)
Sibling	Mary B. "Polly" Ewing (1768 - )
Sibling	Chatham S. Ewing (1770 - 1839)
Sibling	Hon. Reuben A. Ewing (1770 - 1823)