aged 79 yr 10m 13 ds
The following obituary for Sidney Rees appeared in the "Stuart [Iowa] Locomotive", 18 Jan. 1895, p. 7, col. 1:
An Old Settler Dead
Mrs. Sidney Smith died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Chessman at Earlham last Saturday. Had she lived until the 28th day of next month, she would have been eighty years of age. The deceased was the widow of John Pearson. The family came to Penn township, settled in that part of the township which has since been known as West Milton in 1855. The Pearson mill was built and the home established. For many years Pearson mill was an important place with the pioneers of this section. The Pearson home was always open to the traveler come from where he might, be his color white or black. Hospitality to the neighbor or stranger was a part of the religion preached and practiced at the Pearson home, and so it was not strange that in those stormy times of slavery and anti-slavery that it should be made a regular station on the underground railroad. Many a poor black person, fleeing from slavery to liberty, has found a resting place under that roof, and food and good cheer from good Mother Pearson.
Sidney Smith was first married to John Pearson and secondly to Benjamin Smith.
From: Robert and Mary Ankenbauer (FAG #48071921)
The following obituary for Sidney Rees appeared in the "Stuart [Iowa] Locomotive", 18 Jan. 1895, p. 7, col. 1:
An Old Settler Dead
Mrs. Sidney Smith died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Chessman at Earlham last Saturday. Had she lived until the 28th day of next month, she would have been eighty years of age. The deceased was the widow of John Pearson. The family came to Penn township, settled in that part of the township which has since been known as West Milton in 1855. The Pearson mill was built and the home established. For many years Pearson mill was an important place with the pioneers of this section. The Pearson home was always open to the traveler come from where he might, be his color white or black. Hospitality to the neighbor or stranger was a part of the religion preached and practiced at the Pearson home, and so it was not strange that in those stormy times of slavery and anti-slavery that it should be made a regular station on the underground railroad. Many a poor black person, fleeing from slavery to liberty, has found a resting place under that roof, and food and good cheer from good Mother Pearson.
Sidney Smith was first married to John Pearson and secondly to Benjamin Smith.
From: Robert and Mary Ankenbauer (FAG #48071921)
aged 79 yr 10m 13 ds
The following obituary for Sidney Rees appeared in the "Stuart [Iowa] Locomotive", 18 Jan. 1895, p. 7, col. 1:
An Old Settler Dead
Mrs. Sidney Smith died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Chessman at Earlham last Saturday. Had she lived until the 28th day of next month, she would have been eighty years of age. The deceased was the widow of John Pearson. The family came to Penn township, settled in that part of the township which has since been known as West Milton in 1855. The Pearson mill was built and the home established. For many years Pearson mill was an important place with the pioneers of this section. The Pearson home was always open to the traveler come from where he might, be his color white or black. Hospitality to the neighbor or stranger was a part of the religion preached and practiced at the Pearson home, and so it was not strange that in those stormy times of slavery and anti-slavery that it should be made a regular station on the underground railroad. Many a poor black person, fleeing from slavery to liberty, has found a resting place under that roof, and food and good cheer from good Mother Pearson.
Sidney Smith was first married to John Pearson and secondly to Benjamin Smith.
From: Robert and Mary Ankenbauer (FAG #48071921)
The following obituary for Sidney Rees appeared in the "Stuart [Iowa] Locomotive", 18 Jan. 1895, p. 7, col. 1:
An Old Settler Dead
Mrs. Sidney Smith died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Chessman at Earlham last Saturday. Had she lived until the 28th day of next month, she would have been eighty years of age. The deceased was the widow of John Pearson. The family came to Penn township, settled in that part of the township which has since been known as West Milton in 1855. The Pearson mill was built and the home established. For many years Pearson mill was an important place with the pioneers of this section. The Pearson home was always open to the traveler come from where he might, be his color white or black. Hospitality to the neighbor or stranger was a part of the religion preached and practiced at the Pearson home, and so it was not strange that in those stormy times of slavery and anti-slavery that it should be made a regular station on the underground railroad. Many a poor black person, fleeing from slavery to liberty, has found a resting place under that roof, and food and good cheer from good Mother Pearson.
Sidney Smith was first married to John Pearson and secondly to Benjamin Smith.
From: Robert and Mary Ankenbauer (FAG #48071921)
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