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Name: Alphonse Anthony "Al" Ewald ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8}
Sex: M
Birth: 28 Mar 1906 in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan, USA ^{1 3 4 5 6 7 8}
Death: 31 JAN 1996 in Warren, Macomb Co., Michigan ^{1 2 6 7}
Burial: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, MI, Section F, Lot 496, Space 3. ^{7 9}
Baptism: in Wayne, Michigan.
Residence:
1. 1910 in Detroit Ward 7, Wayne, Michigan, USA. ⁸
1. 1930 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA. ⁵
1. 1935 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan. ⁴
1. 1940 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, USA. ⁴
1. in Warren, Macomb, Michigan. ⁶
Person Id: P704
Tree Id: 615412

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Parents

Father:

~Jacob Felix (twin) Ewald: Birth: 5 AUG 1865 in likely area of Danzig/Gdansk, West Prussia/Poland. Death: 08 Jan 1959 in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan, USA

Mother:

~Anna Przytulski: Birth: 17 Jun 1873 in Gr. Lensk, East Prussia, now Wielki Leck, Poland. Death: 29 Jul 1908 in Detroit, Wayne Co., Michigan, USA

Family
Marriage:

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Sources

1.	Title: U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
2.	Title: Web: Macomb County, Michigan, Death Index, 1945-2012 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
3.	Title: Michigan, Births and Christenings Index, 1867-1911 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
4.	Title: 1940 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1940; Census Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: m-t0627-01873; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 84-1120 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
5.	Title: 1930 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1930; Census Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; Page: 11B; Enumeration District: 0596; FHL microfilm: 2340792 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
6.	Title: Michigan, Death Index, 1971-1996 Author: Michigan Department of Vital and Health Records Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
7.	Title: U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
8.	Title: 1910 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1910; Census Place: Detroit Ward 7, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: T624_683; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0324; FHL microfilm: 1374696 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
9.	Title: Mt. Elliott Cemetery Association, Detroit, MI online burial index Publication: posted online at: [http://www.mtelliott.com/genealogy]

Notes

Note: The baptism of "Alphons Ewalt" at St Josephat Church is recorded on 1 April 1906, 3 days after he was born. His godparents were John Walesouk (sp?) and Stanislawa Pisarek, his mother's sister. Known as Al, Uncle Al and "Unk", Alphonse was the youngest child of Jacob and Anna Ewald. He was not quite 2 years of age when his mother died. He contracted polio at age 2, spent about 2 years in Children's Hospital, Detroit and used crutches throughout his life. But that never slowed him down!
He appears first in US census records in 1910 as a 4 year old living with his father and siblings at 512 Alexandrine St., Detroit. While a young boy, he lived with for many years with his grandparents Ewald. He appears in the 1920 census living with them at 429 Willis St., Detroit, along with his father and cousin, Julius Weber. As a teenager, at either age 16 or 18, he moved into the home of his sister and brother-in-law, Constance and Frank Ritter, with whom he lived most of his life.
In June, 1995 Uncle Al told me the story of a fire at his grandmother's house. Apparently, Grandma used to dry her clothes in the attic in the house on Willis, a long, open space. One day a fire was discovered, with smoke pouring out of the windows. Grandma put out the fire, but not before her hair was singed off the top of her head! He wasn't sure how the fire was started, but he thinks it may have been the matches he'd been playing with! He was about 10 years old at the time.
Al graduated from Cass Technical High School Pharmacy Program and took classes at Wayne College (now Wayne State University) in Detroit. He worked for many years as a chemist for Alcoa Aluminum Co. He remained employed during the depression years of the 1930's and contributed generously to the Ritter household finances. He later financed Marion Ritter's nursing school costs. Mary Beth Houlihan Wheeler recalls family stories of his Hupmobile car with its rumble seat.
After the death of Constance Ritter, the house on Wisner was sold and Al moved to Warren, MI with niece Barbara Ritter, where he resided until his death in January, 1996. He is buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery with his sister, Constance Ritter, her husband Frank, and his father, Jacob Ewald. He was a wonderful, honest, holy man who was loved by all.

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