Joshua Ewing was a surveyor and in addition to his labors on the farm he devoted considerable time to this occupation.  He made a great many of the early surveys in Madison and Union Counties.  He was the first Auditor of Union County and it is thought died while serving his first term.  His death occurred about 1822, it is supposed from the fatal fever which swept over Darby Plains in that year.  His children were Eliza, born in May 1800, who removed to Adair County, Iowa, and died there, unmarried, August 28, 1881; George, who emigrated to near Attica, Ind., and died there; Polly, married to David Chapman, and removed to Adair County, Iowa, where both died; Joshua Green, who died in Jerome Township, leaving seven children, all of whom went to Iowa; Cynthia, who died unmarried on the home farm; Harriet, who married William Allen and died a few years since in Plain City; Martha, Peggy and William Scott, all of whom died in Jerome Township.<> <>