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Note: Great Grandfather of Kathy Pearson Gardner. KG4KINFOLK@@aol.com
George Warren Pearson was born in England. His mother died when he was young. His father remarried and then also died. In those days, the eldest living son was eligible to inheret the estate and titles at age 13. The stepmother wanter her son to inheret. So she arranged for George to be taken to sea and killed before his 13th birthday. She paid a sea captain approximately 200 lbs to throw Geore overboard on a trip to America. The boat sailed from Liverpool, England(?). On the way to America, George and the captain became friends. The captain taught George to be a good cabin boy. On arrival in New York the captain took George to a family to raise. The sea Captain gave all of the money the stepmother had given him to raise George well. When Great Great Grandpa was old enough, he said goodbye to his adopted family and headed west. It was said that he moved through Kentucky and then to Missouri where he supposedly married or mated with an Indian women and had his first family while a riverboat captain on the Ohio and the Mississippi Rivers. We don't know what happened to the first family. But George moved to Illinois and settled in Clay County some time before 1855. In 1856 he married Nancy King. They first had a son named Lewis, then a son named Uriah, who died before his second birthday. In 1961, they had a son namede George Warren Pearson. The first George died on Dec 10, 1862, at the age of 40. Nancy remarried a man named John W. Killingsworth. During his life, GGGrandpa, through thrift and being a riverboat man, had acquired a nice sum of money. After Nancy Killingsworth, who was a school teacher and apparently a gambler, he lost all the family fortune. It was said that GGGrandpa may have been a blacksmith. On Feb 14, 1879, Nancy also died, leaving George Warren an orphan at the age of 17. Nancy was 49 years old and 9 days old. She was buried at the Oskaloosa Cemetary in an unmarked grave. Lewis, George's brother, died before the 1880 census was taken on Mar 21, 1880 of pneumonia. Then George went to live with a William and Susa King, who I think were his aunt and uncle. John Killingsworth died in 1901 of a CVA. He was buried in Oskaloosa Cemetary in an unmarked grave.
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