“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

NOAH S. EWALT,  a young and successful business man of Dallas county, is a son of 
Noah S. Ewalt, Sr., who was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky.  He was reared there to 
the age of twelve years, at which time his parents moved to Missouri, settling in Greene 
county.  In 1856 Mr. Ewalt came to Dallas county, Texas, where he purchased a 
certificate for 160 acres of land on Grapevine Prairie, with which he began his career as a 
farmer and stock-raiser.  As his means allowed he added to this tract until at the time of 
his death he owned 858 acres, all of which lay on the prairie except sixty acres in the 
timber, and nearly all of which was in pasture.  Mr. Ewalt was a good manager, 
economical and industrious, and at his death left his family a good estate.  He was 
married in Texas, May 19, 1863, to Mary J. Johnson, a native of this State.  Mr. Ewalt 
died at his home in this county October 18, 1878, at about the age of forty-five years, and 
his wife survived him some years, dying October 15, 1890, aged forty-four years.  They 
were both buried at the old family burying-ground on the farm of William Haley, near the 
old Ewalt homestead.  They were members of the Christian Church, and led lives 
consistent with their profession.  Noah S. and Mary J. Ewalt had a family of nine 
children, viz:  Noah S., born June 11, 1864;  Henry, October 24, 1865;  Frances, October 
3, 1866;  Kitturah, July 23, 1870;  Lela, August 18, 1872;  Thomas Richard, January 2, 
1875;  Lucinda C. and Jane, twins, February 17, 1877; and Samuel Walter, July 31, 1879.  
Of these, Henry died November 1, 1865;  Thomas Richard, in November, 1890;  Frances 
is now the wife of James Graham, of this county;  Kitturah, the wife of Frank Crouch, 
also of Dallas county; and Lela is now Mrs. George Slater, of this county.  The Ewalt 
estate has never been divided, and the unmarried children still reside on the old 
homestead, the management of the farm as well as the providing for the family, 
devolving on the eldest son, Noah S.

The young man has assumed the responsibilities which have come to him by the death of 
his parents with a manly spirit, looking diligently not only after the financial interests 
committed to his care as administrator, but is attending to the wants of every nature of his 
younger brothers and sisters.

Submitted by L.Pingel