DR. FINIS W. EWING, an active and rising young physician of Terral, Jefferson county, comes of a famous professional family of the south, his father having long been a practitioner of prominence in the medical field. He is a native of Johnson county, Missouri, born on the 10th of January, 1876, and after receiving a good common school education he pursued the more advanced studies is the Kansas City High School. Graduating from the latter, he soon after took up his professional studies, was matriculated in the Kansas City Medical College, from which he graduated in 1899. He then came direct to Terral, and after a year's practice removed to Blue Grove, Texas. Another year of professional work there was followed by a return to Terral, where he has since resided and established a practice which is large and lucrative, yet select. He is a member of the Jefferson County Medical Association and the Northwest Texas Medical Association, to both of which he has contributed, valuable papers. Dr. Ewing's people have always affiliated with the Democratic party, and he has acted with the organization since he became a voter. He was active in the first political campaign of the county Democracy in 1907, being secretary of the county committee, as well as secretary of the Fifth Congressional Convention, which met at Hobart in that year. Professionally, the Doctor is local surgeon of the Rock Island Railway, and fraternally is past master of the Blue Lodge of Masons, and past grand of the Subordinate Lodge of Odd Fellows.
     Dr. Lee D. Ewing, the father of Finis W., was born in Lafayette county, Missouri, in July, 1847, and in 1870 graduated from St. Louis Medical College. He has since been engaged in successful practice at Ringgold, Texas, except during the construction of the Fort Sill, Texas & Oklahoma Telephone Company's lines. Having originated and promoted this extensive public enterprise, he had active charge of the construction of this System, which for a time he also operated. This broad and useful work absorbed all histime and strength to the complete exclusion of his practice, but having placed the telephone system in working order he sold the plant and returned to his professional work. He has been financially and professionally successful, in the highest sense of the word, having accumulated valuable property interests in Terral and elsewhere, and his capital has otherwise assisted in the substantial prosperity of Terral and the place of his residence. The elder Dr. Ewing is an old soldier of the Confederacy, enlisting in Texas and serving for two years and a half under the noted General Kirby Smith. During this period he was captured and exchanged. In 1892 he removed from Johnson county, Missouri, to his present location in Texas. The paternal grandfather was Henry H. Ewing, a native of Tennessee who, in turn, was the son of Rev. Finis Ewing, of Cumberland, that state, pastor of the local church and one of the founders of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. He died at the scene of his pioneer labors in behalf of that denomination. Henry H. Ewing came to Texas before the Civil war and farmed in Travis county until 1866, when he returned to Missouri and died in Vernon countv three
years later. He married Martha, daughter of Judge Ephraim Ewing, one of the judges of the Missouri Supreme Court, who passed his life in that state. The children of this union were: F. Y., of Harwood county, Missouri; Perry, of Canadian, Texas; Mrs. R. A. Barr, of Kansas City, Missouri, and Dr. Lee D. Ewing. The last named married Elizabeth Harris, daughter of Duke Harris, who came from Lexington, Kentucky, in 1866, and located in Lexington, Missouri. He was a landowner, had been a Confederate soldier and died in 1868. Mrs. Ewing died at Ringgold, Texas, in 1899, the mother of the following: Delmer H., of Lawrence, Kansas; Dr. Finis W., of this notice; Dieugueid, wife of P. F. Briscoe, of Terral; Lee B., of Fort Worth, Texas, and Forest C., also of Terral. At Blue Grove, Texas, on November 21, 1900, Dr. Finis W. Ewing married Sallie E., daughter of James M. Watts, a pioneer of Texas, who was originally from Florida. By the marriage of the latter to Marian Hughes he became the father of the following: William E., of Clebume, Texas; Arch, of the same place; Marion L., of Decatur, Texas; Thomas J., of Blue Grove; Addie, wife of E. J. Brown, of Cleburne, Texas, and Mrs. Dr. Ewing. The issue of the marriage of Dr. and Mrs. Ewing are: Finis W., Jr., born December 19, 1903; Marion L., born October 4, 1905, and Marguerite, born November 11, 1907.