MARCH 26 ISSUE ANSWERS: Three Ewells were in Romeo. Samuel Ewell I built and lived in the 1838 house on North Bailey. His son Samuel Holbrook was a farmer, a furniture maker for Palmer and owner of The Romeo Argus newspaper. His poetry book has his bio in its introduction. Samuel H. Ewell II built the Romeo Custom Flour Mill you see in the photo above. His son Samuel Leon Ewell III ran the mill. Samuel III lived in the Romeo Historical Society Christmas ornament house that was sold in 2024. Samuel III’s house on West St. Clair Street is an amalgamation of imperial Roman, shingle style with a French chateau tower. There were no streams to power his flour mill so it had to be powered by electricity and probably used steel roller mills instead of mill stones. By now mills were becoming independent of dams and streams so they could by located nearer the local populations. R. Beringer Romeo Historical Society Curator