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

  
  

• 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S6184] Alicia (Ewing) Towster, "Charles and Robert Ewing: Part II -- Charles Ewing." Ewing Family Journal 20:20, Nov 2014.