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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Margaret Pearce: Birth: 1834 (about) in Adams Twp., Decatur Co., IN (likely). Death: Jul in 1852

  2. William Pearce: Birth: 1837/1838 in Adams Twp., Decatur Co., IN (likely).

  3. Sarah (Eliza) Pearce: Birth: 1841 in IN. Death: Alive in 1860

  4. Mary Pearce: Birth: 1843/1844 in IN.

  5. Gideon R. Pearce: Birth: 1846 (about) in IN. Death: Appears in 1880 USFC, Miami Co., IN in Peru, Miami Co., IN (likely)

  6. Melcina G. Pearce: Birth: 8 Oct 1848 in IN. Death: 2 Apr 1920 in Peru, Miami Co., IN (likely)

  7. Frances Marion Pearce: Birth: Mar 1852. Death: 1 Nov 1852 in Peru, Miami Co., IN

  8. Elizabeth B. Pearce: Birth: 1855/1856 in Peru, Miami Co., IN (likely). Death: Jun 1893 in INdianapolis, IN


Notes
a. Note:   On Jonathan's gravestone is: "IOOF 52," standing for Intl Order of Foresters, Lodge 52. Jonathan may have been raised by Clarinda or one of the other siblings after his father expired, who migrated to Decatur Co., IN. It would appear that James and Ellis Pearce remained in Hamilton Co. It may be that Alvah/Alfred and Eliza expired in Hamilton Co., OH.
  Jonathan, James and sister Clarinda sold each of their eighth shares in land owned by their father in Decatur Co to Colville Pearce. Then Jonathan bought Lot No. 119 in the town of St. Omer. This lot appears to be at the edge of the town and was not developed and was sold to someone in the Paramore family, which family appears to have been close to Jonathan. The Paramores bought a section from Colville's family off the southwest corner of Col. Pearce's parcel, then sold it back to Colville or his son after the Paramore patriarch died.
  It would appear Jonathan was in Decatur Co. until about 1848. In 1850 he was a partner in a general merchandise store in Peru, IN with L. D. Adkison, in which year the partnership was dissolved. Reportedly the gov. gave land away in Miami Co., IN beginning in about 1845 or engaged in some type of scheme to settle the land once wrested from the Native Americans there. Brother James S. Pearce migrated there from Ohio about the same time and took up farming.
  It is not clear what type of work Jonathan Pearce may have engaged in following what appears to be a parting of the ways with L. D. Atkinson but from later censuses it appears that his wife, Elizabeth Corbin, may have kept a boarding house. She was also listed as a wash woman. Their last child was born after Jonathan's demise.
  Physicians Gideon Passmore, KY 1815, and Himelius Pugh, NC, 1827, as well as Mary Steele (OH) 1827, resided in this family's household per the 1860 USFC. Perhaps it was a boarding house. Jonathan was close to the Passmore family that purchased a parcel off the southwest corner of Col. Pearce's parcel that had gone to Colville Pearce and later sold it back to him or his son, Willis Pearce when the father Passmore expired. Himelius Pugh may have been an inlaw to a female in the Passmore family in Ohio. Mary Steele may have been a domestic. Gideon Passmore later married in Miami Co., IN.
  Most of the information found on Jonathan's children was from censuses, plus work of other researchers on children who lived to marry.
  Surnames among the descendants of Jonathan Pearce and Elizabeth Corwin: Clifton, Lester, Paris, Bentson and Miller.


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