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Moses Jefferson Pearson Newspaper Obituary

M. J. Pearson Dies Wednesday Evening

Moses Jefferson Pearson

Farmer Dies of Heart Condition and Complications – Rites Near Lena-Conover

Conover, Sept. 2 (1943) – Moses Jefferson Pearson, 62, died of a heart condition and complications at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening at his home, one mile east of Lena-Conover. He had been ill for six months prior to his death.

He was born in Monroe township, Miami county, November 14, 1881, where he resided till last spring when he moved to his present home. He was the son of Oliver and Elizabeth Pearson, in a family of three children.

A prominent farmer, he was married in December, 1907 to Marie Gentry, who survives him along with 14 children, six boys whom are in the armed forces. Five children died in infancy.

The six boys serving the country are Oliver, at Camp Amarillo, Texas; Charlies, in North Africa; John, Camp McCain, Mississippi; Wilmar, Harry and Donald, all in the South Pacific. Oliver and John arrived home before their father’s death and will be present for the funeral.

Other children surviving him are, James, Toledo; Walter of Piqua; Mrs. Laura Harmon, Urbana; Bessie, Ruth Rose, Mary and Ada at home; eight grandchildren, and one brother, Lewis Pearson of Troy.

The body was taken to the Suber funeral home in Fletcher, where friends may call until time for the services, which will be held at 3 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, with burial in Fletcher cemetery. Mrs. Edward B. Fischer, pastor of the Federated Churches, will officiate.

Family Note: This is the transcription of the obit that ran in the local paper. He died on September 1, 1943 at the age of 61. Per the Death Certificate, he died at 8 p.m. EST and the immediate cause of death was Carcinoma of the Colon (colon cancer) and Coronary Occlusions (heart issues).

Genealogy research update

Aunt Jean

Sorry I haven’t posted anything new since I got back from visiting Aunt Jean and our cousin Rosasharon a couple weeks ago. Today I’m working on changing that and getting back into my Friday genealogy day! Plan to get some new stuff posted today so stay tuned! We did do a DNA sample with Aunt Jean and it’s currently in the lab being processed. Probably another 4 weeks till we get the results. Aunt Jean is excited about seeing her results!

Searching for George Pearson’s Grave

I will share that aunt Jean and I searched the grave records at Casstown and Lost Creek Cemeteries trying to find a grave for George Pearson, who is our uncle that died at birth, but had no luck at all. According the the death certificate it should have been one of the two places where he was buried, unless he was buried somewhere on the farm. There are a lot of unknown graves at both places as well. We’ll probably never know for sure.