Arthur was the son to Antone and Emma Pearson Pierson,was born in Putnam Illinois,Arthur died in World War Two in Aleutian Islands.On May 29 1943,He was in the US Army enlisted in the fall of 1940 and Reported for duty at Camp Ord,Cal., Febuary 16, 1941.His last visit home was in in Febuary of this year,and his parents received their last letter from him in May.He was a member of the Putnam Salem Luthern Church.According to known records Pierson is Putnam County's first war fatality.He was a brother to Mildred Pierson(1916-1982)(Carl Johnson)Vernette M. Pierson(1919-1993)(Axel Martenson)Leona Mae Pierson(1921-1998)(Gerald Swanson)Raymond Virgil Pierson(1923-1944)Verner A.Pierson(1925-1998)Eleanor J.Pierson(1928)(LaVern J. Taylor,1929-2009)and Emil Eugene Pierson(1933-1978)Arthur was Antone and Emma's oldest son
Arthur was the son to Antone and Emma Pearson Pierson,was born in Putnam Illinois,Arthur died in World War Two in Aleutian Islands.On May 29 1943,He was in the US Army enlisted in the fall of 1940 and Reported for duty at Camp Ord,Cal., Febuary 16, 1941.His last visit home was in in Febuary of this year,and his parents received their last letter from him in May.He was a member of the Putnam Salem Luthern Church.According to known records Pierson is Putnam County's first war fatality.He was a brother to Mildred Pierson(1916-1982)(Carl Johnson)Vernette M. Pierson(1919-1993)(Axel Martenson)Leona Mae Pierson(1921-1998)(Gerald Swanson)Raymond Virgil Pierson(1923-1944)Verner A.Pierson(1925-1998)Eleanor J.Pierson(1928)(LaVern J. Taylor,1929-2009)and Emil Eugene Pierson(1933-1978)Arthur was Antone and Emma's oldest son
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