Mordecai Wright Pearson

1816 - 1878  (61 years)

• Name	Mordecai Wright Pearson
  Birth	10 Aug 1816
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Jul 1878	Maidencreek Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Burial	Maidencreek Friends Meeting Burial Ground, Maidencreek Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I31119	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	John Starr Pearson,   b. 26 Aug 1781   d. 26 Sep 1831 (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Mary Wily,   b. 28 Jun 1786   d. 8 Aug 1817 (Age 31 years)
  Family ID	F11295	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Deborah B Parvin,   b. 17 Apr 1817   d. 19 Jan 1890 (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	1842
  Children	1. John Starr Pearson,   b. 1 Jan 1843, Maidencreek Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 13 Mar 1915, Maidencreek Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 72 years)   2. William Pearson,   b. 1844   d. 1919 (Age 75 years)   3. Charles Pearson,   b. 1851   d. 1893 (Age 42 years)
  Family ID	F11294	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2023

  
  

• Notes

  husband of Deborah B Pearson John Starr Pearson was a farmer, and lived to the age of fifty years, dying in 1831. He married Mary Wright, and reared one child to manhood: Mordecai Wright. Mordecai Wright Pearson was born Aug. 10, 1816, and was fifteen years of age when his father died. In 1842 he married Debora Parvin, daughter of Francis and Susanna Parvin, of Berkley, Pa., and died July 4, 1878, his widow surviving him until January 1890. They had four children: John Starr; William, a resident of this section; Susan; and Charles, who died in 1893, aged forty years, married Beulah Kahler, of Reading, and had two children, Helen K. (born Sept. 30, 1884) and Lawrence J. (born Nov. 8, 1888). (biography of JOHN STARR PEARSON, History of Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, p 924. submitted by Marina Yeager #46871120) (no dates on gravestone)

  
  

• Sources

  [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9744510/mordecai-wright-pearson.