Ewing Monument in Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne IN. The Memorial is a forty foot obelisk in Lindenwood Cemetery Section B (largest monument in the cemetery). The Rev War Patriot was Alexander Ewing b.28 May 1783 d.1 Jan 1827. Ewing Monument in Lindenwood Cemetery, Fort Wayne IN. The Memorial is a forty foot obelisk in Lindenwood Cemetery Section B (largest monument in the cemetery). The Rev War Patriot was Alexander Ewing b.28 May 1783 d.1 Jan 1827. The birth year is probably wrong and s/b 1763, because otherwise he would not have been old enough for the Rev War. His son stated "His mortal remains were, by his own request, interred on a small mound, on the prairie (his own land), just west of what was then the village of Fort Wayne. This sacred spot is marked by a small oak tree, still standing - but in consequence of the construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal, in 1833, which passed very near to this spot, my brother (Wm. G. Ewing) and myself, thought it an unfit place for the final reposing of the remains of our father; so, in 1847, we erected a vault, known as the 'Ewing Vault', situated in the public grave yard immediately south of the 'Ewing addition' to Fort Wayne, and there we caused to be deposited our father's mortal remains - enclosed in a zink [sic] coffin." (goes on to say the rest of people buried there).
