Seeking information about the parents of the W. W. Pearsall, identification of the spouse and names of the children indentified in the article below. Pearsall Tragedy - Goldsboro, NC, December 26 - Our city is stirred from centre to circumference and all the country round about for miles this afternoon over what seems to be one of the most horrible crimes in the anals of our State. On Tuesday night a retired country home on the banks of the Neuse river, about six miles from this city, in which dwelt William W. Pearsall, his wife and two small children, was destroyed. The burning was not discovered, however, until up in the forenoon of Wednesday, when it was found that Pearsall and his whole family were charred corpses in the smouldering ruins. At first it was thought that the horrible and sickening fatality was an accident, no one else living on the premises, but the coroner's investigation unearthed some strong circumstances pointing to one Weightman Thompson......as the perpetrator of the foul homicide......Thompson and Pearsall were boon companions and had been to Goldsboro together on Tuesday drinking some and left the city together in the same cart and it is known that Thompson went home with Pearsall that night. From the best evidence obtainable it is presumed that the burning was accomplished about 11 o'clock Tuesday night and at about 1 o'clock Thompson put in an appearance atone of the lower bar rooms of the city. When he was arrested today he was found to have hid in the woods a valise and a suit of clothes that Pearsall had purchased in one of the stores in this city Tuesday. Thompson claims to have bought the clothes in another town but they bore the trademark and were identified by the clerk of the store that sold them to Pearsall on Tuesday. Thompson was ordered to jail and indignation against him is runing high. Source: Wilmington Messenger, December 27, 1891.