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This shows my maternal grandmother's paternal Quaker relatives. In back, left to right, are Ichabod "Emory" Pearson (1839-1919), Nathan T. Pearson (1840-1923), William Lazarus Pearson, Ph.D. (1849-1935)(sons of my great3-grandparents Lazarus and Sarah Edgerton Pearson), and William Eli Pearson (1863-1928), a grandson of Lazarus and Sarah and brother of my great-grandfather. In front of them are Mary Achsah Pearson (Edgerton)(1874-1915), Emily Ruth Pearson (Smith, Bulla)(1865-1954) (sisters of my great-grandfather and granddaughters of Lazarus and Sarah), Sarah ("Sallie") Pearson Copeland (1838-?), Elizabeth F. ("Lizzie") Pearson (1842-1927)(daughters of Lazarus and Sarah and sisters of my great2-grandfather). In front of Emily is her mother, Dicena Newlin Pearson (1836-1897), my great2-grandmother. My great-grandfather, Joseph Lazarus Pearson (1859-1944), who lived at the Lazarus Pearson homeplace at that time, is sitting on the porch with his first wife, Mary Deans Pearson (1861-1917), son John Thomas Pearson II (1883-1935), and infant daughter Annie Beatrice Pearson (Edwards)(1886-1958). This was taken shortly before Uncles Emory, Nathan, and William and Aunts Lizzie and Sallie, went West. John Thomas Pearson (1837-1877), the husband of Dicena and father of Joseph and 7 other children, died before this picture, and was the only surviving child of Lazarus and Sarah Edgerton Pearson who remained in North Carolina. Photo donated by Aunt Emily's granddaughter, Elizabeth Jenkins Beery (1914-1991) of Wilmington, NC, to the late Ruth Pearson Harper for use in her 1982 Pearson genealogy, and given to me by Mrs. Harper's son, John B. Harper of Birmingham, AL, in 2002. I assume this is the Lazarus Pearson home, which still stands as of 2009 off Rt. 581 on the south side of Little River in Wayne Co., NC.
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