Butler County Genealogy Trails Kansas Charles W. Ewing Bio

BUTLER COUNTY'S EIGHTY YEARS BIOS

CHARLES W. EWING

(Transcribed by Peggy Luce)

El Dorado bade a regretful farewell to Charles W. Ewing – an old and trusted friend. The sorrow occasioned by his passing, however, is tempered with gratitude for the beautiful and manly life he had contributed to the intangible character of this community. For he was gentle, he was kind, he was gracious. He became involved in none of the antagonisms in which towns sometimes engage. And without being effusive, he was friendly, cordial and helpful under all circumstances. There was a reserve in his nature in which his true spirit dwelt. To this he admitted his intimates and they found it richly endowed with a fine philosophy of man’s duties and obligations, undisturbed by ambitions for worldly peace or endeavor. And so Charles Ewing lived serenely and calmly and with a far better appreciation of a few fundamentals of existence than many men who are driven by a restless urge. The page that “Charley” Ewing has written in El Dorado’s book of life is one of untarnished beauty – and the memories he has left are talismans of cheer and abiding hope in the eternal verities. – February 18, 1932.