They live close together. Some have leased the Sixteenth Section Land once leased by the Hiltons. Some bought the John Barron land from the Barron descendants. She bought the land with her money and the money her three sons sent her while they were in service. Today they have the land leased to an oil company at twenty five dollars per acre.
Today there are four children and their families living there.
The Byrds are very desirable citizens and neighbors. After farmers go dinner bells hung high in the yards they rang them for field hands and to toll death, fire, neighbors visited each other and spread the news, until 1953 when Webb D. Shivers bought the Florence Telephone Company and extended it into the Pearl and neighboring communities at the rate of six dollars and twenty-five cents. By 1963 Pearl had dial system. Today the Florence Telephone Company is owned by the Mid-Continent Telephone Company Cooperation, Prentiss, Mississippi. However, in Pearl the people of one group have come to understand that the welfare of one group depends on the welfare of the other groups.