Alice was born Alice Sweet Ewing to Henry Wallis Ewing, Sr. and Alice Elizabeth Sweet on January 6, 1906, in Iola, Kansas. Her father was a farmer and a dentist by trade, however, he became involved in the gas exploration business, In her youth, the family removed to Ft. Worth, Texas, and thence to Houston, Texas. Alice studied at San Jacinto High School in Houston, Texas, and following a legend about Cicero, overcame a speech impediment by practicing speaking with pebbles in her mouth.
She learned typing and shorthand and undertook a career in journalism which was cut short by her marriage to John Arthur Vail, November 25, 1926, in Shackelford, Texas. Nonetheless, in her brief career, she was threatened for writing an anti-KKK editorial. She prided herself on her strong Abolishionist Ewing heritage.
She kept house, often in the pioneer tradition, as her husband pursued a career in the West Texas oil business, gaining recognition as a safety engineer, and in more civilized conditions in Austin, Texas, as he worked on the construction of the Mansfield Dam. In Corpus Christi, she renewed her interest in writing, and she and her husband studied under renown New England poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin. She was among the early students at the Corpus Christi Fine Arts Colony and return for their annual meetings and seminars once the family had removed to Houston, Texas.
She and her sister Abbie Jane Ewing (Mrs. E. R. Barrow) were members of the D.A.R. and worked to reform it after Marian Anderson was denied permission to perform in the D, A,R,'s hall on account of race.
In the early 1950's she overcame polo, rehabilitating herself by doing chin-up exercises on household doors. She continued to write and her poems were published in several Texas poetry journals and literary magazines and anthologies. In 1952, her long narrative poem The Big Thicket, a horror tale of an East Texas slave owner's pursuit of a runaway slave, was published by Naylor. She completed an unpublished epic of brothers on opposite sides of the Civil War.
She worked as a bookkeep for the V.A. and as a clerk at Cobbler's Bookstore in the Rice University Village.
At last she moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, to be near her daughter family.
She learned typing and shorthand and undertook a career in journalism which was cut short by her marriage to John Arthur Vail, November 25, 1926, in Shackelford, Texas. Nonetheless, in her brief career, she was threatened for writing an anti-KKK editorial. She prided herself on her strong Abolishionist Ewing heritage.
She kept house, often in the pioneer tradition, as her husband pursued a career in the West Texas oil business, gaining recognition as a safety engineer, and in more civilized conditions in Austin, Texas, as he worked on the construction of the Mansfield Dam. In Corpus Christi, she renewed her interest in writing, and she and her husband studied under renown New England poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin. She was among the early students at the Corpus Christi Fine Arts Colony and return for their annual meetings and seminars once the family had removed to Houston, Texas.
She and her sister Abbie Jane Ewing (Mrs. E. R. Barrow) were members of the D.A.R. and worked to reform it after Marian Anderson was denied permission to perform in the D, A,R,'s hall on account of race.
In the early 1950's she overcame polo, rehabilitating herself by doing chin-up exercises on household doors. She continued to write and her poems were published in several Texas poetry journals and literary magazines and anthologies. In 1952, her long narrative poem The Big Thicket, a horror tale of an East Texas slave owner's pursuit of a runaway slave, was published by Naylor. She completed an unpublished epic of brothers on opposite sides of the Civil War.
She worked as a bookkeep for the V.A. and as a clerk at Cobbler's Bookstore in the Rice University Village.
At last she moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, to be near her daughter family.
Alice was born Alice Sweet Ewing to Henry Wallis Ewing, Sr. and Alice Elizabeth Sweet on January 6, 1906, in Iola, Kansas. Her father was a farmer and a dentist by trade, however, he became involved in the gas exploration business, In her youth, the family removed to Ft. Worth, Texas, and thence to Houston, Texas. Alice studied at San Jacinto High School in Houston, Texas, and following a legend about Cicero, overcame a speech impediment by practicing speaking with pebbles in her mouth.
She learned typing and shorthand and undertook a career in journalism which was cut short by her marriage to John Arthur Vail, November 25, 1926, in Shackelford, Texas. Nonetheless, in her brief career, she was threatened for writing an anti-KKK editorial. She prided herself on her strong Abolishionist Ewing heritage.
She kept house, often in the pioneer tradition, as her husband pursued a career in the West Texas oil business, gaining recognition as a safety engineer, and in more civilized conditions in Austin, Texas, as he worked on the construction of the Mansfield Dam. In Corpus Christi, she renewed her interest in writing, and she and her husband studied under renown New England poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin. She was among the early students at the Corpus Christi Fine Arts Colony and return for their annual meetings and seminars once the family had removed to Houston, Texas.
She and her sister Abbie Jane Ewing (Mrs. E. R. Barrow) were members of the D.A.R. and worked to reform it after Marian Anderson was denied permission to perform in the D, A,R,'s hall on account of race.
In the early 1950's she overcame polo, rehabilitating herself by doing chin-up exercises on household doors. She continued to write and her poems were published in several Texas poetry journals and literary magazines and anthologies. In 1952, her long narrative poem The Big Thicket, a horror tale of an East Texas slave owner's pursuit of a runaway slave, was published by Naylor. She completed an unpublished epic of brothers on opposite sides of the Civil War.
She worked as a bookkeep for the V.A. and as a clerk at Cobbler's Bookstore in the Rice University Village.
At last she moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, to be near her daughter family.
She learned typing and shorthand and undertook a career in journalism which was cut short by her marriage to John Arthur Vail, November 25, 1926, in Shackelford, Texas. Nonetheless, in her brief career, she was threatened for writing an anti-KKK editorial. She prided herself on her strong Abolishionist Ewing heritage.
She kept house, often in the pioneer tradition, as her husband pursued a career in the West Texas oil business, gaining recognition as a safety engineer, and in more civilized conditions in Austin, Texas, as he worked on the construction of the Mansfield Dam. In Corpus Christi, she renewed her interest in writing, and she and her husband studied under renown New England poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin. She was among the early students at the Corpus Christi Fine Arts Colony and return for their annual meetings and seminars once the family had removed to Houston, Texas.
She and her sister Abbie Jane Ewing (Mrs. E. R. Barrow) were members of the D.A.R. and worked to reform it after Marian Anderson was denied permission to perform in the D, A,R,'s hall on account of race.
In the early 1950's she overcame polo, rehabilitating herself by doing chin-up exercises on household doors. She continued to write and her poems were published in several Texas poetry journals and literary magazines and anthologies. In 1952, her long narrative poem The Big Thicket, a horror tale of an East Texas slave owner's pursuit of a runaway slave, was published by Naylor. She completed an unpublished epic of brothers on opposite sides of the Civil War.
She worked as a bookkeep for the V.A. and as a clerk at Cobbler's Bookstore in the Rice University Village.
At last she moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, to be near her daughter family.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
