Ewalt Family History & Genealogy

“John Ewalt, Sr., was born in the Palatinate on the Rhine, Germany, in 1707, and emigrated to America with his wife, Sarah, and his two brothers, Richard and Henry. They settled on a farm about two miles east of Bedford, Pennsylvania, then known as Cumberland County, which was a vast wilderness of woods, located on Dunnings Creek, and cleared a farm known as Colfelt Farm, which was less than one-half mile from, and in plain view of an Indian settlement in the lowlands and near this small stream Indian arrowheads have been gathered by the hundreds. The celebrated Ewalt apple originated on this farm.” (Source unknown) This apple, also known as Bullock’s Pippin, is listed among heirloom varieties but is not sold under the Ewalt name today. An article published in The Cultivator and Country Gentleman, Albany NY, February 17, 1881, refers to “… a Spitzenburgh apple. I think it is our old Kane Spitzenburgh. The grafts from which it started here were taken by Mr. John Ewalt from the orchard of Dr. Kane of New Jersey over sixty years ago.” “In a burial plot at the old ancestral home at Bedford, Pennsylvania, the two stones at the grave are marked as distinctly as if inscribed ten or twenty years ago. They read as follows: In memory of John Ewalt Sr. who departed this life November 12, 1793. Age 85 years. The other, Sarah Ewalt, Consort of John Ewalt Sr. who departed this life January 10, 1809.” (Source unknown) A reference from Bean’s History of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania published in 1884, lists John Ewalt as an original land purchaser from the Penns. Referring to Richard Dunckley: In a 1716 deed for land inherited from his father Richard Dunkley is described as being “of the Manatawney in the County of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania – skiner [sic].” It names his wife as Esther. A disposition taken in March 1732 describes the navigation hazards present in Philadelphia County in which “Jonas Yokum and Richard Dunklin [sic] also state that they got fast on a fish dam with a canoe, on board was Dunklin’s wife and child, besides sixty bushels of wheat, and that for more than an hour they were in imminent danger of being overset and drowned.”

Possibly born in Conventry, her father was Irish and her mother was English. Her mother died in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1734. Her husband paid 1753 taxes in East Nantmeal (Which is the 1st town south of Conventry), Chester CO, PA. Her 2nd and 3rd children would have been born there. All her children were born in Pennsylvania. PAX list states her husbands immigration as 1733 as a teen travelling with his parents. John Ewalt (immigrant to America) was born in 1707 in Palatine on the Rhine, Germany. John with his wife Sarah and their children John, Mary, Henry and Rebecca, and John's two brothers Richard and Henry emigrated to America in 1765. They settled near Bedford, Pennsylvania where John and Sarah lived out the rest of their lives and had five more children, Esther, John, Anna, Sarah and Richard. John died in 1792 and Sarah died in 1809, and both are buried in a plot on the family farm near Bedford.

Henry Samuel Ewalt Sr. was born on January 27, 1754 at Paltine, Baveria, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, and died at age 75 years old on September 29, 1829 at Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Henry Samuel Ewalt, Sr..

Mary Elizabeth Frye Keller Ewalt was born on January 16, 1756 at Culpeper County Virginia, USA, and died at age 81 years old on May 7, 1837 at Bourbon County Kentucky, USA. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Mary Elizabeth Frye Keller Ewalt.

Kitturah Margaret Stamps Ewalt was born on November 20, 1799 at Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky, and died at age 55 years old on April 2, 1855 at Monticello, Lewis County, Missouri. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Kitturah Margaret Stamps Ewalt.

Harris Ewalt of New Wilmington, Lawrence County, PA was born on October 11, 1871, and died at age 94 years old in March 1966.

John Ewalt of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida was born on September 24, 1873, and died at age 96 years old in April 1970.

Henry Ewalt of Denver, Denver County, Colorado was born on July 22, 1874, and died at age 92 years old in October 1966.

Albert Ewalt of Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois was born on January 27, 1875, and died at age 95 years old in September 1970.

Harvey Ewalt of Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri was born on May 26, 1875, and died at age 93 years old in February 1969.

Robert Ewalt of Redlands, San Bernardino County, California was born on July 25, 1877, and died at age 96 years old in August 1973.

Edward Ewalt of Washington was born on December 30, 1877, and died at age 86 years old in February 1964.