Ephraim PEARSON

                       "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
                  

                       IGI   file gave two set of LDS Ordinances foar Benjamin Pearson or Person.  The
    second set of dates are:  B.  8 Dec 1972 SL, E.  10 Apr 1973 SL, SP.  30 May
    1973 SL.  Batch #   7223522--1, Call # 0822007.