Thank you for all your efforts, Joyce. It means a lot to know that people are willing to help in any way they can. I was hoping to find that Jack W. Pearson's father was my missing Andrew Jackson Pearson, the son of William and Jane Pearson. I appreciate the link and will see what else I may find. I have found an Andrew Jackson Pearson in TX, but he appears to be born about 4 years after William died (1856). I did receive an e-mail from a great-neice of my Uncle Paul Pierson. It is wonderful to expand our extended families, isn't it? Again, I do appreciate your help, and hope maybe there will be someone out there who has a direct connection to these Pierson/Pearsons. J.Price