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Vol. 19, No. 3, August Ewing Family Journal Volume 19 – Number 3 August 2013 ISSN: 1948-1187 Published by: Ewing Family Association www.EwingFamilyAssociation.org ISSN: 1948-1187 Ewing Family Association 1330 Vaughn Court Aurora, Illinois 60504 www.EwingFamilyAssociation.org CHANCELLOR Wallace K. Ewing [email protected] PAST CHANCELLORS 2006-2012 David Neal Ewing [email protected] 2004-2006 George William Ewing [email protected] 1998-2004 Joseph Neff Ewing Jr. [email protected] 1995-1998 Margaret (Ewing) Fife 1993-1995 Rev. Ellsworth Samuel Ewing OFFICERS Board Chair Treasurer Secretary Wallace K. Ewing Linda (Ewing) 'Lynn' Coughlin Beth (Ewing) Toscos [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] BOARD OF DIRECTORS Karen Avery Linda (Ewing) 'Lynn' Coughlin Daniel C. Ewing [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] David Neal Ewing Joseph Neff Ewing Jr. [email protected] [email protected] Martin S. Ewing Wallace K. Ewing Eleanor (Ewing) Swineford [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Beth (Ewing) Toscos Jane P. (Ewing) Weippert [email protected] [email protected] ACTIVITY COORDINATORS Archives Clanship EGD Project Mary (Ewing) Gosline David Neal Ewing William Ewing Riddle [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Genealogist Internet Services Journal Membership Karen Avery Martin S. Ewing William Ewing 'Bill' Riddle Jill (Ewing) Spitler [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Merchandise New Members Y-DNA Project Virginia (Ewing) Okie Jane P. (Ewing) Weippert David Neal Ewing [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Ewing Family Journal Volume 19 Number 3 August 2013 Published by: Ewing Family Association, 1330 Vaughn Court, Aurora, Illinois 60504 Website: www.EwingFamilyAssociation.org The Ewing Family Journal is published quarterly. Members of the Ewing Family Association receive the Journal as part of their membership. Copies of previous issues are $5.00 each, and copies of previous volumes are $20.00 ($25.00 for overseas mailings). For copies of previous issues or volumes, contact William E. Riddle at [email protected]). Through 2008, this publication was titled Journal of Clan Ewing. The name was changed in January 2009 to reflect a change in the name of the publishing organization from Clan Ewing in America to Ewing Family Association. All contributions are subject to editing. Ewing Family Association does not assume liability for statements of fact or opinion by contributors, but proven errors will be corrected. In addition, the opinions of contributors are not necessarily those of Ewing Family Association or its Officers, Board Members or Activity Coordinators. ISSN: 1948-1187 © 2013, Ewing Family Association. All rights reserved. From the Editor William E. Riddle, Journal Editor (+1 505.988.1092, [email protected]) Folkways In the journal's previous issue I continued to describe my struggle to understand my interest in my ancestors' lives and times and how it has affected my focusing of material in the Ewing Family Journal. In my message in the previous issue, I focused in on David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed1 and it's somewhat pedantic definition of 'folkways' as "normative [structures] of values, customs and meanings that exist in any culture." In his current message on page 37, Chancellor Wally Ewing quite succinctly describes what I have been struggling to express, I repeat it here to emphasize and highlight it: I am fascinated with the pioneering spirit of our ancestors who dared to create new lives for themselves. How did they 'get by' day to day? What were their dreams and their dreads? What were their realities? I have an almost insatiable longing for historical novels and factual histories. Resurrecting a fact or theory excites me and, given half a chance, I'm prepared to share it. Punctuation As Editor, I'm charged with assuring – among other things – that the journal's material is typographically and grammatically correct. This means that I'm constantly on the lookout for 'typographical' errors such as "great grandmother" vs. "great-grandmother" and grammatical errors such as the correct use of commas to separate the parts of a compound sentence ("We climbed the mountain and descended into the valley." vs. " We climbed the mountain, and we descended into the valley."). Among the 'other things' I worry about is readability. With respect to this I have a very simple rule: If I have to stop reading, backup and re-read, then something's needed to make this not be the case. In introducing his signature comedic routine, Phonetic Punctuation,2 Victor Borge says When we read or write, we use punctuation marks to underline the meaning of our sentences. We do not use them when we speak, so why not integrate punctuation marks into our speech? Then we can underline what we intend to convey to each other verbally. Borge then introduces sounds for various punctuation marks – for example 'pffttz' for a 'period' – and uses these sounds to read a dialogue between two lovers. The audience is reduced to tears of laughter. My readability rule is akin to Borge's verbal-understandability 'rule'. While observing the rules of 'good writing' as defined by the Chicago Manual of Style,3 I tend to use punctuation to reflect the phrasing and 1 Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, Oxford Univ. Press (New York), 1989. A review is available online at tinyurl.com/FischerAlbionReview. The full text is available online at tinyurl.com/FischerAlbion. 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw ii Ewing Family Journal Vol. 19, No. 3 (August 2013) hesitations a presenter would orally make to help his/her audience understand what he/she is saying. Compare a speaker saying: The moon that night was full bright golden. (with no hesitations) versus him/her saying: The moon that night was full ... bright golden. (with "..." indicating a slight hesitation) The verbally indicated difference between the moon being 'full' and 'bright' and 'golden' versus it being 'full'' and 'bright golden' requires some punctuation to cue the reader: The moon that night was full, bright, golden. versus The moon that night was full, bright-golden. OK, I'm being a tad bit anal. But I'm quite sensitive to having to, when I try to speedily read through the journal's material, stop, backup and re-read the material in order to understand what an author is saying. I figure that my somewhat over-use of punctuation makes it so that readers don't have to 'hiccup', backup, and re-read material to understand what the material's author is 'saying'. Wm E. Riddle Mass Pike Roadkill Researchers for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority found over 200 dead crows near greater Boston recently, and there was concern that they may have died from Avian Flu. A Bird Pathologist examined the remains of all the crows, and, to everyone's relief, confirmed the problem was definitely NOT Avian Flu. The cause of death appeared to be vehicular impacts. However, during the detailed analysis it was noted that varying colors of paints appeared on the bird's beaks and claws. By analyzing these paint residues it was determined that 98% of the crows had been killed by impact with trucks, while only 2% were killed by an impact with a car. MTA then hired an Ornithological Behaviorist to determine if there was a cause for the disproportionate percentages of truck kills versus car kills. The Ornithological Behaviorist very quickly concluded the cause: when crows eat road kill, they always have a look-out crow in a nearby tree to warn of impending danger. The conclusion was that while all the lookout crows could say "Cah", none could say "Truck." 3 www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html Vol. 19, No. 3 (August 2013) Ewing Family Journal iii EWING FAMILY ASSOCIATION THIRTEENTH BIENNIAL GATHERING Mark Your Calendar Fort Wayne, Indiana 19-21 September 2014 SSeeee ppaaggee 3344 ffoorr ffuurrtthheerr iinnffoorrmmaattiioonn.. iv Ewing Family Journal Vol. 19, No. 3 (August 2013) Ewing Family Journal Volume 19 Number 3 August 2013 From the Editor ........................................................................................................................................ ii Folkways .............................................................................................................................................. ii Punctuation .......................................................................................................................................... ii CONTRIBUTIONS Will of John Ewing, died 1609 .................................................................................................................. 1 Literal Transcription .............................................................................................................................. 1 Modernization ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Observations ........................................................................................................................................ 6 Elder vs. Younger ............................................................................................................................. 6 Coloured Cloth ................................................................................................................................. 6 One American Family – Part VI ...............................................................................................................
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