... What a beautiful message expressing delightful memories... Thank you!!! Edgar Hunt -- Great Grandson of: JOHN C. HUNT born February 26, 1849 in Lawrence Co. MO, and died March 05, 1923 in Olatha, Delta County, CO. He married MARY JANE BLACKBURN June 10, 1870 in Lawrence County, MO (Recorded Mt. Vernon, MO), daughter of WILLIAM BLACKBURN and SABRA WATSON. She was born December 10, 1853 in Springdale, AR, and died December 30, 1943 in Olathe, CO. Notes for JOHN C. HUNT: Was living with his father during the 1870 Lawrence County Census. Twenty years after his marriage he became the first of this Hunt line to migrate to Colorado (Olathe in 1890). He then went to Montrose, CO. where he homesteaded for 12 years. Homesteads on Ash Mesa and East Mesa, In Western Colorado. His third homestead was on Henry Ramage's place, a mile and a half north of Montrose, CO. In 1893 he leased a 320 acre ranch (for $250 a year) owned by Clark Eldridge on Ash Mesa and was there until 1902. He then located near Olathe, eventually accumulating a big enough herd of cattle to run on the range near the Little Cone and Specis Mesa in the San Juan Mountains. He moved back to Missouri in 1912 and returned to CO about 1920. An article in the newspaper "Lawrence Co. Chieftain," year 1899 includes a column titled the "Round Grove News" that stated that 'B. H. Sater has purchased the John Hunt farm.' The date was March 2, 1899. Also in that column was: 'Uncle Daniel Hunt is confined with a serious attack of grip."

I like the idea of giving what histories we on this board have concerning our families in Lawrence Co. Mine is rather sparse, but here is what little I know of my Grand parents: My Grandfather, John Anderson Pearson, born Sept. 21, 1848 in Warren Co, KY, was living in Pierce City, MO at the time of his marriage to Martha Elizabeth (Mattie) Cordell. However, she was living in Citra, I.T., and they were married at McAlester, I. T. on Oct. 26, 1896. They returned to his home in Pierce City where their first 2 children were born: (1) Paul Edward Pearson, born Sept. 12, 1897, and (2) Thomas Obadiah, born April, 1899, and died July 25, 1900 and his buried in an un-marked grave in the Pierce City Cemetery. In Nov. 1900, my grandparents left Pierce City, moving to the "new country". It was somewhere in I. T., that my father J. Frank Pearson was born, June 05, 1901, and Mattie died a few days later. Unknown as to when, Grandfather and the 2 boys, Paul & Frank, returned to Pierce City so that Grandfather's sister, Sarah J. (Pearson) Clark could help him with the children. Sarah's daughter, Laura Ella Clark died Oct 04, 1900, and is buried in a marked grave in the same plot as Thomas Obadiah Pearson. Also, in the 1890's, my Grandfather's brother, Alfred Frank Pearson was a pastor of the First Baptist Church in Pierce City, exact dates not at hand at the moment. He is listed as MG in quite a few marriages in Lawrence Co. When little Thomas Pearson died, Prof. Dow officiated at the funeral. I believe Prof. Dow was President of the Pierce City Baptist College. Stella Campbell Pearson, born Nov. 14, 1845, Warren Co. KY, died May 10, 1931 Mt. Vernon. Lawrence Co. MO; married William Hardy Coleman. Both are buried at the I. O. O. F. Cemetery, Mt. Vernon, MO. She was the daughter of Binns Pearson, a brother to my Grandfather's father, William (Billy) Pearson. Would love to hear from anyone with any information on these families. Wilma Fields [email protected]