This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pearce Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AgB.2ACE/197 Message Board Post: I’m trying to confirm the name of the first wife of PETER MCBRIDE PEARCE He was born on 10 August 1840 in Mifflin Tennessee and died on 8 September 1904 in Collinsville Texas. The Family Folk Lore is that he abandoned his first wife (?Saluda J. Dickey/Dickie?) who he married in 1862 in Mifflin and came to Independence County with their 2 children, Jerry Newman Pearce and Richard Haynes Pearce. She may have been an Indian. Also, we think she is buried in the Independence County area. Shortly after he arrived in the Independence County area he married Rebecca Delilah Case on 11 April 1872. He was a Baptist Minister and may have been the Independence County Representative to the State Legislator in the 1860s. I think his son Richard died in 1907 and may be buried in the Independence County area, but I haven’t been able to find any good references for his death. I think he married Annie O’neal. His son Jerry died in 3 October 1930 and is buried in the Old Walnut Ridge Cemetery with his wife Lourainey Ann Pulliam. I requested a Death Certificate for Jerry Pearce to confirm his mother’s name, but the Department of Health said they did not have one. Richard died before the state started keeping death certificates. Any thoughts on confirming Peter’s wife’s name?? I have extensive data on the Pearce family that I will be glad to share. Warren Pearce pearceww@rmi.net