This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pearson, Pierson, McBee, Gordon, Jennings, Reed, Turner, Ball, Liggett Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4098.24 Message Board Post: 1.-- PEARSON of Lacy Grove, Fremont county, Iowa a.-- Willliam Pearson and family were in Hamburg Monday on business.--SUN of Dec. 19, 1895. b.-- William Pearson visited Nebraska City a few days ago.--SUN of Feb. 13, 1896 c.-- William Pearson is home from Missouri.--SUN of March 19, 1896 2. Family of WILLIAM J. PEARSON as far as known: WILLIAM J. PEARSON, b. Sept. 1852 in Missouri; married RACHEL ELIZABETH McBEE, b. June 1855 in Iowa; married on March 29, 1872 in Fremont county, Iowa......In 1880, they were living in Sidney township.....In 1885, they were living on the west half of the northeast quarter of Section 20 Range 42 Township 69 in Fremont county, Iowa......In 1895, 1900, they were living in Sidney township; a.-- William H., born Feb. 1873 in Fremont county. b.--Nellie, b. ca. 1876 - d. between 1885 and 1895 (?) c.-- Isabell, b. Mar. 1880 d.-- Grace, b. Feb. 1882 - d. 1960; married Frank Gordon, b. 1877 - d. 1956; married on March 1, 1902 at Sidney. Son of Robert and Martha (Jennings) Gordon. Buried at Sidney. e.-- Matty, b. ca. 1885 - died at a young age. f.--Bert, b. March 15, 1886 - d. June 12, 1926; married Inez P. Reed, b. Feb. 9, 1899. Buried at Mt. Olive. (N.B.: His obituary is NOT in the Sidney paper.--W.F.) g.-- Joseph, b. Jan. 18, 1888 - d. Sept. 9, 1945. Buried at Mt. Olive. (N.B.: His obituary is NOT in the Sidney paper.--W.F.) h.-- Eva, b. Feb. 1890. i.-- Lizzie, b. Feb. 1892 j.--Clarence, b. Jan. 10, 1895 - d. Sept. 19, 1967. Buried at Mt. Olive. (N.B.: His obituary is not in the Sidney paper.--W.F.) 3.--Rachel Elizabeth McBee was the daughter of John and Louisa McBee, who had moved from Claiborne county, Tennessee to Nebraska township, Page county, Iowa by 1860. Rachel's oldest sister Emily McBee, married Aaron Ball in Page county on June 25, 1860. During that decade, William Pearson's family moved to Fremont county where another sister, Amanda Pearson, married James Turner on Oct. 4, 1869; where Eve McBee married James K. P. Pearson on Feb. 5, 1871; and where Elizabeth McBee married William J. Pierson on Mar. 19, 1872........IF James McBee and William McBee were brothers, their children would have been double cousins. Also, Mrs. James (Ava Jane) McBee said she had been born near Nashville, Tennessee, but Elizabeth's census records say that she had been born in Iowa (This is the same information as shown in the 1860 census records for Page county.) 4.--Notes on James Knox P. Pearson have been posted on Rootsweb's Fremont county site.....My aunt, Gladys Pierson(Mrs. Forrest Liggett) was of this Pierson family.