Jasper County Families

Pearson

Husband: Thomas Everett Pearson

Born:	1818	Franklin Co, Virginia
Died:	Nov 1879	Wanda, Newton Co, MO	in a mining accident
Buried:		Wanda Cemetery
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Married:	Susan Fraser Reed

lived in McNairy Co, TN came to Newton & Jasper Cos, MO in 1870s Left behind his 2nd wife Susan Fraser Reed Pearson, stepdaughter Roxana Reed Tabor, and younger sons born during his marriage to Susan. Susan Fraser Reed Pearson was living in Joplin on Harline Street, 1900 Jasper Co, MO census with those sons and her widowed, childless daughter, Roxana 'Roxie' Reed Tabor. These sons were born between Aug 1866 & Oct 1877 in McNairy Co, TN and after early 1870s in Newton Co, MO.

1. William
2. Robert
3. John
4. George B. Pearson b. Oct 1877 appears in Biographies of Jasper County as a mine owner. He had only one child, Kay Pearson of Joplin who married a Mr. Walldower. George's brothers remained in Joplin and at least two of them became Joplin City fireman or policeman.

Sons by his first wife

Husband: James Palmer PEARSON

Born:	1853	McNairy Co, Tennessee
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James was a mining engineer and anti-union mine owner who disapeared ca1915-20 thought to be murdered and dropped down a mining shaft by union organizers. His body has never been found. He is listed on the 1900 and 1910 Jasper County Federal Census in Joplin.

Wife: Amanda(maiden name unknown)

Born:	about 1851	in Tennessee
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Their children:

1. Elma Maria Pearson b.1875 Newton Co, MO;lived at Granby later in Joplin; m. Henry Evert Ackley
2. Ida May Pearson b. 1877 Newton Co, MOlived at Granby later in Joplin no further information
3. Ernest Pearson b. July 1879 or Jasper Co, MO lived at Granby later in Joplin no further information

Husband: Thomas Everett Pearson

Born:	1862	McNairy Co, Tennessee
Died:	6 March 1953	near Skiatook, Osage Co, OK
Buried:		Hominy City Cemetery
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Married:	July 1885	Stella, Missouri	Jennie Ann Moore

He came to Newton Co, MO to join his brother and their father. He later lived near Diamond in Jasper Co, MO. About 1900 he moved to Oklahoma Territory at Blackburn, Pawnee Co, OK, later into Hominy, Osage Co, OK. Thomas Everett Pearson was a road contractor, livery owner and built many of the roads in the oilfields of Osage Co, OK as well as road and railroad beds in NE OK. He died 6 March 1953 at his ranch in Osage County near Skiatook. He and Jennie are buried in Hominy City Cemetery.

Note: This Pearson family is not related to the earlier Pearsons of first Jasper County and later Newton Co, MO who operated a hotel in Newton Co. The mother and father of that family were married ca 1850 in Jasper Co and their marriage is recorded in the Jasper Co marriage Book A.