John Henry Ewalt was born on March 30, 1876 in Lewis county, Mo., the son of Sallie Belle Hinkson Ewalt and William S. Ewalt, and departed from this life on April 14, 1961 at the Walnut Valley Nursing Home in Augusta, after an extended illness.
He was united in marriage to Mary Emma Need on Febr. 24, 1897 in Cowley county, Kans. To this union was born four sons and four daughters. He was preceded in death by his wife in 1963.
Mr. Ewalt spent his early life in Atlanta and Latham communities. He and his family moved to Augusta in 1918 where he was engaged in trucking and the teaming business during the boom days in this area. He operated the rock quarry where tons of lime stone were quarried that formed the base under our brick streets, refinery and the High school.
In 1934 Mr. and Mrs. Ewalt retired to the farm where he had lived as a small boy.
Mr. Ewalt leaves the mourn his passing, a sister, Sadie B. Ewalt of Winfield, Kans.; four sons, William, Miami Springs, Fla.; Ernest, Walter and Lawrence of Augusta, Kans.; four daughters, Nona B. Howard, Springfield, Colo., Emma Shafer, Bell, Calif., Venita Canfield, Augusta, and Leota Nye, Topeka, Kans.; ten grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Funeral services were held on Monday, April 17, 1961 at 2 p.m. from the Dunsford Funderal Home. Rev. Vernon V. White of the First Baptist church officated. Mrs. Viola Bagby presided at the chapel organ, and Jim Smith was solist, singing "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Life's Railway To Heaven." Casket bearers were Marvin Canfield, Melvin Canfield, Robert J. Ewalt, Howard Shafer, Claude Parker and Robert Parker. Interment was made in the Timbercreek cemetery, Cowley county, Kans.