This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pearson, Trent Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XeB.2ACE/3344.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I don't know what happened to him. I only have him in my file because of the Trent connection. If he had a pension file it would be in there. I am not absolutely sure about this, but I believe that his mother's estate named him as Christopher Columbus Pearson. There doesn't seem to be any record of him being named Richard, so I guess that could be a census error.