EWBANK, Thomas Chapman - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

T.C.Ewbank, brother of M. F. Ewbank and son of Mrs. Elizabeth Ewbank, of this place, died at his home near Orleans, Ind. Wednesday of last week, after an illness of three weeks duration with typhoid fever. He was one of the most prominent farmers in the vicinity in which he lived and was widely known as an ardent church worker. The body arrived here Friday evening and funeral services were conducted at the Friends church y Rev. Mrs. Thorn of Orleans, Saturday at 11:00 o'clock after which enterment was made in the Harveysburg cemetery. He leaves to mourn their loss a loving wife, two sons, two brothers, one sister, an aged mother, besides a host of other relatives and friends. Obituary will appear next week. (believe this one was from Betty D :)

Thomas Chapman Ewbank, third son of Jacob and Elizabeth Ewbank was born Sept. 22, 1862, three miles east of Kingman, Ind. There, surrounded by the influences of a good Christian home, he grew to manhood. Taking advantage of every opportunity offered he attended the public schools and was a member of the first class which was graduated from the Millcreek Township public schools. Later he attended the Ladoga Normal school from which institution he also received a diploma. At the age of 23 he united with the Newlight Christian church at Old Pleasant Grove under the pastorate of Rev. J. T. Phillips. This step, taken in the full strength of manhood, using his own words, "was taken for life," and his subsequent life shows the earnestness of his purpose. On Nov. 25, 1891, he was united in marriage to Lilly, the only daughter of Thomas J. and Amelia White, making their home near Kingman Ind., until Mar, 1904, when he moved his family to Orange Co. Ind. .to make a home and friends among strangers. How he succeeded can best be judged by what one of his recent neighbors said of him: "that in his death Orange Co. had lost one of her best men and the community one of its very best and most usefull citizens." At nine o'clock on the evening of Sept. 28, 1910, at the age of 48 years and 6 days, his spirit peacefully returned to the God who gave it, leaving to mourn his loss, his aged mother, Elizabeth Ewbank of Kingman, Ind., two brothers, Forester of Kingman, Ind., and William of Eugene, Oregon, three sisters, Zada Bonebrake of Veedersburg, Ind., Florence Thompson of Marshall, Ind., and Mada Paschal, Kingman Ind., his devoted wife and two sons, Layton, age 18, and Roy, age 8, besides numerous other relatives and a host of friends; his father and two brothers having preceded him. Thus in one brief moment were snapped asunder all the natural ties of affection; a dutiful son, a loving brother, a faithful husband, an indulgent father, a true friend; what more could mortal be? He is gone, the book of his life is finished; but the indelible picture which his life and character has painted upon the canvas of memory in the minds of those who knew him best will ever remain as a never ending argument for higher thoughts, purer actions and more noble deeds for he was ndeed "a good man full of the Holy Ghost and of faith.