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Has Valued Heirloom.Wjhen W. Steele Ewing, aged ninety, died recently at his home in Dover Hill, this county, he ieft to A. R. Ewing, his nephew a farmer, living near here, a priceless memento. It is an old white-handled, singie-bluded Barlow knife. It has lost one* of its handles and the blade shows the effects of years. Yet the present owner wduld not part with it for it was the pocket knife carried by George Washington when in camp, at Valley Forge during the revolutionary war.The great grandfather of W. Steele Ewing, a soldier in the colonial army, was a friend of the great general and during that time of scarcity and suffer-m* •* iing became intimately* attached to the commander* in'-chief. As a testimony of his friendship Washington gave him the knife, which has been care^pily preserved in the Ewing family sincethat time and which is one of the few»»•links in southern Indiana which connect the revolutionary period with the pres^ ent.
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Shoals News
Shoals, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 04, 1922
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Douglas E.
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