More of the Pearson Side

I think the first three pictures are already on the "My Life In Pictures" blog in one form or an other. It won't hurt to repeat them as this posting also has the option to get the picture in its Big Original Size. Just click on the photos and a new window will open with the larger version.



Dad worked for Continental Oil in Houston in the 1920's



The horse that Dad is riding is probably Uncle Earle's horse. The horse lived at out place for a while.



My parents in an out of focus picture from their Honeymoon Trip to Arkansas. This is at Mom's Oldest Brother Ed and his wife Bert's home.



Last is a picture I have no information on. Do not know who the boy is or where the picture is taken. Might be in Arkansas. Would like to know about this picture.

The Pearson Side of the Family

I was contacted by one of my cousins about information on our common family tree. My Grandmother was Ola Martin Pearson. My Cousin, Melba McNeely Stewart was the daughter of Catherine Pearson McNeely. Catherine was the daughter of Lelia Ethel Martin Pearson. Ethel was my Grandmother's sister. Both married Pearsons, but not directly related Pearsons.



Melba sent me a link to pictures she had placed on Ancestry.com. In the pictures was a picture of Twins that looked a familiar to me. I had pictures of myself when I was six, taken with a pair of twins. I do not remember the picture being taken or who the people in the picture were. My Mother was good about labeling pictures, but all I knew was the adults were Uncle Henry and Aunt Ethel and they were "Pearson Relatives". The twins were just "The Twins". Catherine was also labeled by her first name only.

So I have had these pictures and not known who they were.

Upon examination of the pictures, with this new information, I recognize my Grandmother in one of the Pictures. In the Picture above are Melvin and Melba McNeely.

The Picture below is of Me and the twins. (If you click on these pictures you can view the larger original pictures)



Below are Lelia Ethel Martin Pearson and Henry Clay Pearson at their home in Bryan, Texas.



Catherine is the woman hugging her son Melvin. I am not sure who the other people in the picture are that have not yet been named.



In the corner of the porch is Ola Martin Pearson, my Grandmother and Ethel's Sister.



Last is a group picture.

The Border

A lot of whoop-te-do about the border with Mexico these days. Well lets flash back to the 1910's when Pancho Villa raided across the border. Below is a picture of my Uncle and Cousin, members of the Texas National Guard as they Bivouacked in South Texas near Mercedes, waiting for President Wilson to send them in to Mexico as needed.



The back of the picture say it is 1914 or 1915. Doug Kitchel is on the ground and Bruce Wilson is holding him down, kind of. Doug's leg, is unbent due to accident with a horse that caused him not to be able to bend his knee.

Next we see Bruce at the Chickamauga Battleground. Bruce's Grandfather Kitchel had been a member of the 2nd Minnesota Brigade at the Battle of Chickamauga. The Brigade was one the first to reach Missionary Ridge.

Rehm Family Pictures

I received a few pictures from my Cousin Marilyn.




The three Rehm boys are Albert Joseph, Jr., John Henry, and Roderick Walter (not necessarily in that order in the picture).

The people I know, in addition to the boys are, in the far back row from left to right is an unidentified man, my mom Salome Wilson Pearson, John Pearson, Jean Hurt Thomas, and Barney "Goog" Thomas. In front of them is Albert Jr., Zilpha Wilson Hurt, and unidentified lady, Gin Platzer (I think), and Bertha Kitchel Wilson. In front, kneeling, an Unidentified lady, Roderick "Roddy" Walter, John Henry Rehm, and Hazel Hurt Rehm.

I am not sure about Aunt Gin.



I am really at a loss about this picture. I know only five of the seventeen people. In the front row is my mother, Salome, her father Roderick, her sister, Zilpha, and her mother Bertha.



This is my mother around nine or ten. This picture looks less like her than any I have seen.



Mom in her late teens? Jean with her?



Here is a picture I had of Hazel and Mom.




Here is a close up cut out of the picture above.




Here is Mom at Aunt Jean's house with a cousin, Bea Kitchel, from Fayetteville, Arkansas, I think.



Next to the last is Mom at the Alvin Nursing Home with visitors Hazel, I think maybe Minneford, and Bea.



Last is a picture that I am without any knowledge. It is a very nice picture though.

If anyone provide names for the unknown people, or correct my identifications, please email me at lylifespics(at)yahoo.com.

Mom lived with several relatives between the time she graduated from school and the time she got married. She lived with Aunt Loretta. She was married to Charles H. Wilson. Like most mothers of her time she lost one child, Charles Bruce. She had four other sons. Harold F., Donald J., William K., and Charles H.

I visited Aunt Loretta in Houston with my parents several times. Below is my mother at Aunt Loretta's house.



Mom with Don, one of Aunt Loretta's boys.



Another picture of Mom and Dad while "courting". Should have been in one of the posts below.



Mom and Dad took care of mother's parents. I think this is mom and dad's house in Almeda, Texas. This is the picture as taken and below is a "close up".



Mr. DeMille, I am ready...



Below is a picture of Mom's older sister Zilpha Wilson Hurt. With Zilpha are her daughters Jean and Hazel. Jean married Barney Thomas and had two son's, Gary and Thomas(Tommy). Hazel married Albert Rehm and had five children, Albert, John, Roddy, and twin girls Marilyn and Geraldine. Shown are the three boys. Marilyn and Geraldine were born after this picture.



Another close up.

The Paternal Side

My last name is Pearson. I know more about my Mother's side of the family, she was a story teller, but I know a bit about my Father's side of the family from just being there.


My Father, John A Pearson was born on May 5, 2004 on a Cherokee Indian Reservation in Talala, Oklahoma. He was listed on the Tribal Roll. He grew up there and after graduating from public school, he worked in the Oklahoma oil fields. His father was James Wallace Pearson who was born in 1874 in Illinois.



Tired of the Oil Fields, he and his older brother, George, went to New Orleans to catch a steamer and see the world. Once in New Orleans they found that it was not that easy to get on a ship. George talked to people that said the place to be was Houston, Texas. They moved there. From there I do not know a lot about what he did and I do not know the years he made these moved in his life.

I do know that Dad got married in 1930, when he was 26. I am pretty sure he graduated in 1923. In the 1930's census He and Uncle George were rooming together in Houston. Dad was soon to be married.

Happy Aniversary Mom and Dad

Today is the anniversary of my parents wedding. They were married June 3, 1930. They remained married until my father's death in 1965. My mother never remarried. She had many offers of marriage but she always said that she was still married to John A Pearson.


The Wedding Picture. These Pictures are at my mother's cousin Catherine Kitchel's apartment. That apartment still stands on Montrose across from the Plaza Hotel. It is a shop now. Mother had lived there while she and Dad dated. She worked for Dr. Dixon as a nurse and Radiologist.



Off to their Honeymoon.



It is my understanding that my Aunt Geneva, who married my Dad's Brother George also worked in that office. Apparently, as told top by Uncle George, he had met this woman he wanted to go on a date with and asked her to find a date for my Dad so they could double. After the Date, Uncle George asked my Dad how he liked hos date. Dad said it was OK. Uncle George then asked if my Dad would mind if he asked out my Dad's date because he rather liked her. Dad said that was fine because he rather liked George's date. Mom was George's date and Aunt Geneva was my Dad's date that George preferred. So we see the 27-year-old newly weds as they begin their honeymoon. It is also just after the 1929 stock market crash and the early days of the Great Depression. But on this day they are smiling and looking forward to a happy life together. They will be married for almost 35 years, and in my mother's mind the 38 years she lived after his death. She was received a proposal several years after my father's death but turned it down saying that she was still married to John A Pearson.