Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Mary "Polly" Ewing
1774 - 1829 (55 years)-
Name Mary "Polly" Ewing Birth 1774 [1] Gender Female Death 3 Dec 1829 Calloway County, Missouri [1] Person ID I37149 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others Last Modified 2 Jan 2022
Father Caleb Ewing, b. Between 1747 and 1753 d. Abt 1780 (Age ~ 33 years) Family ID F21852 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Richard Berry, Jr., b. 1769 d. 1843, Calloway County, Missouri (Age 74 years) Marriage 22 Oct 1794 Mercer County, Kentucky [1] Children 1. Elizabeth Ewing Berry 2. Caleb Ewing Berry Family ID F21853 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Jan 2022
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Notes - "She and an Elizabeth Ewing served as witnesses to the will of John Berry in 1795; as her sister Elizabeth was too young to act as witness, this may have been her mother." [Alicia Towster, citation details below]
As mentioned in the entry for her husband Richard Berry, Jr., it was in their house in which Abraham Lincoln's parents Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks were married in 1806. Mary had known Nancy Hanks earlier in Mercer County, Kentucky, and had brought Mary to the Berry home to work as a seamstress.
- "She and an Elizabeth Ewing served as witnesses to the will of John Berry in 1795; as her sister Elizabeth was too young to act as witness, this may have been her mother." [Alicia Towster, citation details below]
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Sources - [S6184] Alicia (Ewing) Towster, "Charles and Robert Ewing: Part II -- Charles Ewing." Ewing Family Journal 20:20, Nov 2014.
- [S6184] Alicia (Ewing) Towster, "Charles and Robert Ewing: Part II -- Charles Ewing." Ewing Family Journal 20:20, Nov 2014.