d/o:
Thomas McNeil (1747 - 1794)
Mary Hughes McNeil (1745 - 1820)

w/o::
William "Swago Bill" Ewing (1755 - 1822)

m/o:
Elizabeth Ewing Dodrill (1787 - 1832)*
Thomas Ewing (1788 - 1874)*
Jonathan "John" Ewing (1790 - 1850)*
William Ewing (1792 - 1847)*
James Ewing (1793 - 1824)*
Sarah Jane Ewing Wallace (1797 - 1827)*
Enoch Ewing (1799 - 1885)*
Jacob Ewing (1802 - 1878)*
Abraham M. Ewing (1804 - 1891)*
George A. Ewing (1807 - 1883)*
Andrew Ewing (1809 - 1885)*

Pocahontas County (formed 1821 from Bath, Pendleton and Randolph Counties, West Virginia (formed 1863 from Virginia). They lived at Swago Creek.

Where is Mary McNeil Ewing buried?
Descendants erected a modern stone in Ewing Cemetery in 1919, but Mary is not there.
Beatrice says Mary is buried in Gallia, OH but doesn't know where.
The Huntington Township Cemeteries book shows Mary buried in Ewing Cemetery next to her husband, William Ewing.. But that is to be expected since information for the book is gathered by volunteers periodically going to the cemetery and recording gravestones.
The latest answer comes from a "Graver" who says Mary is buried in an unmarked cemetery grave in Missouri. This sounds like the most likely answer , since she moved to Missouri, with a son, in 1853 and died in Missouri in 1858.
Looks like the Ewing Memorial might be considered a cenotaph?
Jerry Deckard
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Mary McNeil Ewing

22 July 1913 - Ewing Letter
This letter was sent by (Billey Kern ?) . It was given to her by (Mr. Grey ?) woho found it at the Gallia, Ohio library.

Dear relative,
Please read this letter because it is the story of the greatest grandmother of the "Swago Bill) William Ewing clan.

In the Western mountains of Old Virginia, near the present spot called "Buckeye", at the juncture of Swago Creek and the Greenbrier River, in the present county of Poca-hontas,W.VA., in a pioneer cabin of her father Thomas McNeil, was born on Christmas Day, December 25, 1771, a baby girl to whom her parents appropriately gave the Christmas name of Mary.
The very day before her birth, a neighbor boy by the name of William Ewing, arrived at the proud age of 15 years. This William was the youngest son of James Ewing, a Scot-Irish immigrant to Old Virginia of about 1730-40. William had received the nickname of "Swago Bill" to distinguish him from the other Williams in the vicinity. His older brother John was known as "Indian John" because of his exciting experience as an Indian Captive during his boyhood. (see John's story under William "Swago Bill" Ewing)
William as a young man worked at the clearings and of course became a skilled hunter and mountain ranger. On the 16th of November 1785 William and Mary were married this fact is recorded at Lewisburg W.VA. Mary was just a month short of being 15 years old, but she was about the healthiest and most capable specimen of girlhood that ever came out of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her husband William, had seen more then twice her years, in fact he was a man of nearly 29. It was most probable Mary did realize the size of the job she was undertaking, She was a sturdy little Scot/Irish Girl, not afraid of hard work, any man, devil or Indian. At the age of 15 she was a first time mother to daughter Elizabeth, at 16 son Thomas had joined the family. not yet 19 she was the mother of 3 and before she was 21 there were 4 babies in her family. At the age of 38 she was the mother of 12, all living, and all born in a 22 year span.
In 1810, with 10 children under age and 2 who had reached adulthood, they left their mountain home and moved to began life anew in the forest of Gallia County Ohio, at the very spot were Ewington now stands. Here the children reached maturity, married and raised their families. The descendants of eleven of the twelve live in nearly every state of the union. William died in 1822. and left Mary a widow at age 51, her youngest, Andrew was then 13 years old. Mary remained at the family home in Ewington until 1853 when at the age of 82, she was determined to go west with her son Andrew. She refused to be dissuaded, and thus became for the third time a pioneer. They moved by wagon and had a tough time getting through; But the little Scottish girl og the Virginia mountains, who dared at 14 to become the wife af a backwoodsman of twice her age, was not the woman at 82 to be afraid of an overland trip of 500 miles by wagon. Mary was of medium height, but quite stout, Her eyes were blue and her hair had turned all white. She could ride by horseback but had to mount from an elevation. She left for the west in a Constoga Wagon, and had a ladder for her own special use in getting in and out of her Cabin on Wheels. The family was delayed in Indiana by family sickness, but finelly made it to missouri. They then went back to Iowa, then returned to Missouri, where Mary died in Mercer County near the town of Ravanna in 1858, Mary was 87 years old.
As Mary was born and bred in the wilderness, so she died and was buried in the wilderness, and no one knows the location of her grave. Mary McNeil, Ewing, the child bride of William "Swago Bill" Ewing, the mother of 12 children, the grandmother of 81, and the great grandmother of hundreds, the pioneer of four states, and comrade of toil and hardship is our ancestor that for so many reason we can be proud of her.