Name: w_w_pearce -- Pearce-Jacobus, Avery-Vanpelt, Bennington-Higgins, & Rogers-Montgomery Tree (also Crafton)

Updated: 06-19-2020 17:06:47. Owner: Sharon


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Marriage: Children:

  1. Mary Frances Pearce: Birth: 24 Dec 1849 in Adams Twp., Decatur County, IN (likely Locust Grove). Death: 23 Jun 1919 in Shelby Co., IN

  2. Herman Avery Pearce: Birth: 9 Feb 1855 in Indiana (in a wagon). Death: 21 Sep 1935 in Connersville, IN

  3. Amanda Jane Pearce: Birth: 22 May 1857 in likely Adams Twp., Decatur Co., IN (Locust Grove). Death: 9 Sept. 1924, midnight in Shelby or Rush Co., IN

  4. William Willis Pearce: Birth: 14 Nov 1860 in Adams Twp., Decatur County, IN . Death: 9 Aug 1872 in Decatur Co., IN (likely)

  5. Sarah Helene Pearce: Birth: 1/7 Sep 1851 in Adams Twp., Decatur Co., IN. Death: 24 Feb 1936 in Daviess County, IN


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a. Note:   He died as the result of an accident, deteriorating over several months. At the same time, "Franklin" Pearce, teacher at the St. Omer School, which William Mitchell helped raise funds to construct, was mortally wounded while applying corporal punishment with a rod to one student, and being hit over the head with a piece of stove wood by the younger student's brother. Reportedly, another name for the teacher was used in the court papers in the charges against the student. There is no record of a burial of a Franklin Pearce. It is likely William Mitchell was the schoolteacher, as he had served in that capacity when the family lived in the West for a time (Jasper Co., IA, maybe TX). William Mitchell lingered in his bed from an undisclosed injury for weeks, finally succumbing in May 1864. The school reportedly had not been open long when this schoolteacher was killed and it opened in early 1860s; the family had returned from the West in 1855. William Mitchell Pearce knew of his worsening condition and imminent demise and wrote a Will hours before he expired. Later the St. Omer school was burned; and the family of the two students' bid successfully on the remaining timber and disposed of it. It has not been fully ascertained it was he who died, as the court papers charging the student with the assault have not been reviewed. It is likely this was William Mitchell Pearce. Reportedly the schoolteacher was a nice young man. William Mitchell Pearce reportedly could be contrary.

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