Ephraim John PEARSON, "SR"

Birth:
18 Jun 1758
East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Death:
1804
Savannah, Chatham, Georgia
Marriage:
22 Feb 1779
Ellington, Vermont
Notes:
                       "Ephraim Pearson was a trader in Manchester, Vermont.  In the fall of 1787 he,
    with others, took a drove of swine to Boston, but failing to dispose of them to
    their satisfaction, Mr. Pearson chartered a vessel to take his live-stock to
    Halifax.  Adverse gales drove the vessel off her course, and she was captured
    by a Spanish privateer, and he taken to Algiers and sold into slavery.  Nine
    years elapsed before he escaped and arrived in Savannah, Georgia.  His wife,
    after waiting his return seven years, mourned him as dead, and married again.
    Learning this fact from his brother, and exacting a sacred pledge that his
    whereabouts should never be revealed to her during his lifetime, he remarried
    in Savaannah, opened a butcher's shop, and prospered for several years, when he
    died suddenly after a short illness.  The pledge given was faithfully observed,
    and she knew nothing of the matter until after his decease."   Source:
    Cleveland Genealogy by Edmund J. Cleveland, Vol. 1, pgs. 279 and 280 which is
    on file at the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 01970.
    IGI   LDS Ordinances are B.  25 Aug 1919, E.  5 Dec 1924, LG, SP.  18 Nov 1976
    AL  .  Batch # 7450
Phebe CLEVELAND
Birth:
25 Jan 1758
Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut
Death:
6 Aug 1838
Sherburne, Chenango, New York
Father:
Blocked
Mother:
Blocked
Notes:
                       IGI   1991 info Batch # 7450316, Call # 002903 for LDS Ordinances.
Children
Marriage
1
Anna PEARSON
Birth:
13 Dec 1779
Manchester, Bennington, Vermont
Death:
7 Jan 1829
 
Marr:
 
2
Mary PEARSON
Birth:
12 Jan 1782
Manchester, Bennington, Vermont
Death:
25 Nov 1857
 
Marr:
 
3
Eunice PEARSON
Birth:
12 Oct 1784
Manchester, Bennington, Vermont
Death:
22 Aug 1859
 
Marr:
 
4
Jacob Cleveland PEARSON
Birth:
28 Apr 1787
Manchester, Bennington, Vermont
Death:
20 Dec 1846
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa
Rhoda EWERS 
Marr:
4 Jun 1812
 
Notes:
                       Family records of Roy Deverl Willey, Big Horn Stake, Wyoming, History of
    Benjamin Cleveland.  Copied 1991 by Evelyn Neville.  "Jacob and Rhoda Pearson
    joined the Latter-Day Saint Church and thus Ephraim John Pearson was baptized
    himself.  Jacob and Rhoda moved to Nauvoo with the Mormons and Jacob helped to
    build the Mormon Temple there.  He was a merchant and was one of the early
    settlers of Nauvoo.  The family was driven out of Nauvoo with the rest of the
    Mormon people and members migrated with the people of this church to Council
    Bluffs, Iowa.  There the colony was visited with an epidemic of cholera.  The
    disease was fatal to the parents and a young brother."  Taken from History of
    Ephraim John Pearson written by his daughter Phebe Elizabeth Pearson Robison.
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Ephraim John Pearson, "Sr" - Phebe Cleveland

Ephraim John Pearson, "Sr" was born at East Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut 18 Jun 1758. His parents were Ephraim Pearson and Hannah Barrett.

He married Phebe Cleveland 22 Feb 1779 at Ellington, Vermont . Phebe Cleveland was born at Canterbury, Windham, Connecticut 25 Jan 1758 .

They were the parents of 4 children:
Anna Pearson born 13 Dec 1779.
Mary Pearson born 12 Jan 1782.
Eunice Pearson born 12 Oct 1784.
Jacob Cleveland Pearson born 28 Apr 1787.

Ephraim John Pearson, "Sr" died 1804 at Savannah, Chatham, Georgia .

Phebe Cleveland died 6 Aug 1838 at Sherburne, Chenango, New York .