Aged 63yrs, 7mos, 7dys; died in Kankakee, Ill.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Pearson, wife of Gen. Robert N. Pearson, of Chicago, commander of Logan's old regiment, died Friday afternoon at the Emergency hospital at Kankakee, Ill. Mrs. Pearson, who was in company with her husband, had been on a visit to her old home near De Soto, Ill., and while returning was stricken with paralysis on an Illinois Central train near Kankakee. On the arrival of the train at Kankakee she was taken to the Emergency hospital, where she died soon after. She was 63 year sold.
The death of Mrs. Pearson will carry sorrow to a large family connection and many friends in this city and throughout the central and southern parts of the state. She was the youngest daughter of Daniel B. and Sally Strong Tuthill, who were among the early settlers of Illinois, coming from Vermont shortly after the admission of this state into the union, and making a home on a prairie in Jackson county, which is yet known by their name.
During the civil war she had several exciting experiences in company with Mrs. John A. Logan in the southern part of Illinois. During the early stages of hostilities Mrs. Pearson, or as she then was Miss Tuthill, was living with friends at a lonely point on the Iron Mountain road in Missouri. While alone one night she overheard a party of confederate soldiers discussing plans for the destruction of a bridge about three miles away, and hastening through the dark woods and thick underbrush in the direction she had heard there were some union soldiers, she managed to find and warn them. When the confederate forces arrived at the bridge they found it so well guarded they had to give up the project for its destruction.
About the close of the civil war she met at the home of Gen. John A. Logan in Carbondale the then colonel of the Thirty-first Illinois infantry, Robert N. Pearson, and was married to him. After the close of the war the family resided in Springfield and continued to live here until 1878, when they moved to Chicago.
Mrs. Pearson was a woman of the noblest character - wise and firm, but sympathetic and helpful to all who were in "sickness, trouble or any other adversity." A devout and consistent Christian - a communicant from her girlhood in the Episcopal church, her broad catholicity extended loving regard to all those who not only professed and called themselves Christians, but to those of whatever creed and belief, whose lives were pure and holy. Without ostentation she sought out the unfortunate, rescued them from danger and inspired them to a noble life. All men and women who knew her gave with their respect and love an unmeasured confidence and little children were drawn to her by a tender love and her wondrous appreciation of the child nature.
She has left to mourn her loss in Chicago a loving husband, who is paymaster in the city hall, a son and a daughter, Haynie R. Pearson, ex-assistant state's attorney of Cook county, and Mary Logan Pearson. Her brother, Judge Richard S. Tuthill, of the circuit court of Cook county, is the only member of her father's family of nine children who yet survives. Her son, Haynie R. Pearson, occupied a position in the office of his uncle, Hon. I. N. Pearson, during the latter's term as secretary of state, 1889-1892.
The burial will take place Monday, the 17th, at Oak Ridge cemetery in this city, the funeral occurring today at the family residence, West Monroe street, Chicago.
Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 9-16-1900, p. 8
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Pearson, wife of Gen. Robert N. Pearson, of Chicago, commander of Logan's old regiment, died Friday afternoon at the Emergency hospital at Kankakee, Ill. Mrs. Pearson, who was in company with her husband, had been on a visit to her old home near De Soto, Ill., and while returning was stricken with paralysis on an Illinois Central train near Kankakee. On the arrival of the train at Kankakee she was taken to the Emergency hospital, where she died soon after. She was 63 year sold.
The death of Mrs. Pearson will carry sorrow to a large family connection and many friends in this city and throughout the central and southern parts of the state. She was the youngest daughter of Daniel B. and Sally Strong Tuthill, who were among the early settlers of Illinois, coming from Vermont shortly after the admission of this state into the union, and making a home on a prairie in Jackson county, which is yet known by their name.
During the civil war she had several exciting experiences in company with Mrs. John A. Logan in the southern part of Illinois. During the early stages of hostilities Mrs. Pearson, or as she then was Miss Tuthill, was living with friends at a lonely point on the Iron Mountain road in Missouri. While alone one night she overheard a party of confederate soldiers discussing plans for the destruction of a bridge about three miles away, and hastening through the dark woods and thick underbrush in the direction she had heard there were some union soldiers, she managed to find and warn them. When the confederate forces arrived at the bridge they found it so well guarded they had to give up the project for its destruction.
About the close of the civil war she met at the home of Gen. John A. Logan in Carbondale the then colonel of the Thirty-first Illinois infantry, Robert N. Pearson, and was married to him. After the close of the war the family resided in Springfield and continued to live here until 1878, when they moved to Chicago.
Mrs. Pearson was a woman of the noblest character - wise and firm, but sympathetic and helpful to all who were in "sickness, trouble or any other adversity." A devout and consistent Christian - a communicant from her girlhood in the Episcopal church, her broad catholicity extended loving regard to all those who not only professed and called themselves Christians, but to those of whatever creed and belief, whose lives were pure and holy. Without ostentation she sought out the unfortunate, rescued them from danger and inspired them to a noble life. All men and women who knew her gave with their respect and love an unmeasured confidence and little children were drawn to her by a tender love and her wondrous appreciation of the child nature.
She has left to mourn her loss in Chicago a loving husband, who is paymaster in the city hall, a son and a daughter, Haynie R. Pearson, ex-assistant state's attorney of Cook county, and Mary Logan Pearson. Her brother, Judge Richard S. Tuthill, of the circuit court of Cook county, is the only member of her father's family of nine children who yet survives. Her son, Haynie R. Pearson, occupied a position in the office of his uncle, Hon. I. N. Pearson, during the latter's term as secretary of state, 1889-1892.
The burial will take place Monday, the 17th, at Oak Ridge cemetery in this city, the funeral occurring today at the family residence, West Monroe street, Chicago.
Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 9-16-1900, p. 8
Aged 63yrs, 7mos, 7dys; died in Kankakee, Ill.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Pearson, wife of Gen. Robert N. Pearson, of Chicago, commander of Logan's old regiment, died Friday afternoon at the Emergency hospital at Kankakee, Ill. Mrs. Pearson, who was in company with her husband, had been on a visit to her old home near De Soto, Ill., and while returning was stricken with paralysis on an Illinois Central train near Kankakee. On the arrival of the train at Kankakee she was taken to the Emergency hospital, where she died soon after. She was 63 year sold.
The death of Mrs. Pearson will carry sorrow to a large family connection and many friends in this city and throughout the central and southern parts of the state. She was the youngest daughter of Daniel B. and Sally Strong Tuthill, who were among the early settlers of Illinois, coming from Vermont shortly after the admission of this state into the union, and making a home on a prairie in Jackson county, which is yet known by their name.
During the civil war she had several exciting experiences in company with Mrs. John A. Logan in the southern part of Illinois. During the early stages of hostilities Mrs. Pearson, or as she then was Miss Tuthill, was living with friends at a lonely point on the Iron Mountain road in Missouri. While alone one night she overheard a party of confederate soldiers discussing plans for the destruction of a bridge about three miles away, and hastening through the dark woods and thick underbrush in the direction she had heard there were some union soldiers, she managed to find and warn them. When the confederate forces arrived at the bridge they found it so well guarded they had to give up the project for its destruction.
About the close of the civil war she met at the home of Gen. John A. Logan in Carbondale the then colonel of the Thirty-first Illinois infantry, Robert N. Pearson, and was married to him. After the close of the war the family resided in Springfield and continued to live here until 1878, when they moved to Chicago.
Mrs. Pearson was a woman of the noblest character - wise and firm, but sympathetic and helpful to all who were in "sickness, trouble or any other adversity." A devout and consistent Christian - a communicant from her girlhood in the Episcopal church, her broad catholicity extended loving regard to all those who not only professed and called themselves Christians, but to those of whatever creed and belief, whose lives were pure and holy. Without ostentation she sought out the unfortunate, rescued them from danger and inspired them to a noble life. All men and women who knew her gave with their respect and love an unmeasured confidence and little children were drawn to her by a tender love and her wondrous appreciation of the child nature.
She has left to mourn her loss in Chicago a loving husband, who is paymaster in the city hall, a son and a daughter, Haynie R. Pearson, ex-assistant state's attorney of Cook county, and Mary Logan Pearson. Her brother, Judge Richard S. Tuthill, of the circuit court of Cook county, is the only member of her father's family of nine children who yet survives. Her son, Haynie R. Pearson, occupied a position in the office of his uncle, Hon. I. N. Pearson, during the latter's term as secretary of state, 1889-1892.
The burial will take place Monday, the 17th, at Oak Ridge cemetery in this city, the funeral occurring today at the family residence, West Monroe street, Chicago.
Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 9-16-1900, p. 8
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Pearson, wife of Gen. Robert N. Pearson, of Chicago, commander of Logan's old regiment, died Friday afternoon at the Emergency hospital at Kankakee, Ill. Mrs. Pearson, who was in company with her husband, had been on a visit to her old home near De Soto, Ill., and while returning was stricken with paralysis on an Illinois Central train near Kankakee. On the arrival of the train at Kankakee she was taken to the Emergency hospital, where she died soon after. She was 63 year sold.
The death of Mrs. Pearson will carry sorrow to a large family connection and many friends in this city and throughout the central and southern parts of the state. She was the youngest daughter of Daniel B. and Sally Strong Tuthill, who were among the early settlers of Illinois, coming from Vermont shortly after the admission of this state into the union, and making a home on a prairie in Jackson county, which is yet known by their name.
During the civil war she had several exciting experiences in company with Mrs. John A. Logan in the southern part of Illinois. During the early stages of hostilities Mrs. Pearson, or as she then was Miss Tuthill, was living with friends at a lonely point on the Iron Mountain road in Missouri. While alone one night she overheard a party of confederate soldiers discussing plans for the destruction of a bridge about three miles away, and hastening through the dark woods and thick underbrush in the direction she had heard there were some union soldiers, she managed to find and warn them. When the confederate forces arrived at the bridge they found it so well guarded they had to give up the project for its destruction.
About the close of the civil war she met at the home of Gen. John A. Logan in Carbondale the then colonel of the Thirty-first Illinois infantry, Robert N. Pearson, and was married to him. After the close of the war the family resided in Springfield and continued to live here until 1878, when they moved to Chicago.
Mrs. Pearson was a woman of the noblest character - wise and firm, but sympathetic and helpful to all who were in "sickness, trouble or any other adversity." A devout and consistent Christian - a communicant from her girlhood in the Episcopal church, her broad catholicity extended loving regard to all those who not only professed and called themselves Christians, but to those of whatever creed and belief, whose lives were pure and holy. Without ostentation she sought out the unfortunate, rescued them from danger and inspired them to a noble life. All men and women who knew her gave with their respect and love an unmeasured confidence and little children were drawn to her by a tender love and her wondrous appreciation of the child nature.
She has left to mourn her loss in Chicago a loving husband, who is paymaster in the city hall, a son and a daughter, Haynie R. Pearson, ex-assistant state's attorney of Cook county, and Mary Logan Pearson. Her brother, Judge Richard S. Tuthill, of the circuit court of Cook county, is the only member of her father's family of nine children who yet survives. Her son, Haynie R. Pearson, occupied a position in the office of his uncle, Hon. I. N. Pearson, during the latter's term as secretary of state, 1889-1892.
The burial will take place Monday, the 17th, at Oak Ridge cemetery in this city, the funeral occurring today at the family residence, West Monroe street, Chicago.
Illinois State Register, Springfield, IL, 9-16-1900, p. 8
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