Jackson County IA Archives Obituaries.....Pearson, Thomas January 13, 1889
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Jackson Sentinel, Jan. 13, 1889
 Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, January 31, 1889

DIED-

Of pneumonia, in Miles, at the residence of his son, T. A. Pearson, Sunday at 
4:00 p.m., January 13, 1889, Thomas Pearson, aged 74 years, 10 months, 12 
days. There has passed away from this earth one of nature’s noblemen, a 
gentleman whose exemplary deeds and kind acts will be remembered by all who 
knew him. Thomas Pearson was born in the village of Thrisk, near Leeds, 
England, March 1st 1814. The Pearson family, in which there were several 
brothers, emigrated to America in 1832, and settled at or near Utica, New 
York. Thomas Pearson and Eliza J. Bryan were married November 4, 1839, and had 
the husband been spared  to his wife and friends they would have together 
celebrated their golden wedding November next. From New York Mr. Pearson and 
his family removed to Chicago, Illinois, and soon after to Elgin, Illinois, 
and in 1851 they came to Iowa. The deceased loved the country of his adoption 
and in the late war, though well along in years offered his services to defend 
the flag to which he had sworn allegiance by enlisting in the 6th Cavalry in 
1862. He was rejected on account of his age, but his determination to aid in 
putting down the country’s foe was not to be shaken, and he soon after 
enlisted in the Gray Beard Regiment, everyone in the regiment being over 45 
years of age. As a compliment to his business ability he was transferred from 
the regiment to an office at the headquarters at St. Louis, in which capacity 
he served faithfully and honorably until the close of the war. His family 
remained at St. Louis, where his son and only child, T. A. Pearson, was 
educated. In 1865, when the deceased received an honorable discharge he 
returned to Iowa and since then he has resided on his farm near Sterling.


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