The Forrest City times., 1905-12-08
DEATH OF GEO. ". PEARSON.
Passes Away Peacefully Af- ter Long lllnesss, at Ad-
 vanced Age.
VAS EFFICIENT RECORDER.

Alf George w Pearson died on Tuesday. December ath., at 5:22 o'clock. P. Ill. The funeral was on the following day al two o'clock. from the Baptist church. where Elder ]. A. NeGerd conducted the services, and | chuirof sweet voices sang the hymns of comfort so loved by the departed The hand of disease was laid on Mr Pearson almost year ago, and d. though sufferer for so long, he con- tinued to take all active interest in the affairs of this life, dischafging his business dutied until the last. On the Friday previous, he worked on his books as Recorder. trying te leave all iu order. The disease though not painful. was very wasting in it's effects and in spite of q strong constitution and | determined will. the brave man was compelled To take his bed. but not until a day or tWo before the end SWeetly and gently as babe on is mothers breast, 50 he rested in the Everlasting Arms and breathed his fife away, and entered into the blessed realities of that higher fife. for which years Of Christian faith and practice had fitted him.
 While around that bedside many loving hearts were bowed with grief, they sorroWed not as those without hope, but rather as those who watch the solemn processes by which our heavenly Father eliminates the mater ial and brings into full power the spir- ftual.
 The services at the church were edi- fying and comforting. and the Mason ic ritual at the cemetery impressive With tender reyerent hands friends laid away the earthly form of this good man, 10 await the voice of his tod on the resurrection morn.
 Mr Pearson had lived in Forrest City for many years, and ever in his business relations was found just and honest, in social and religious rel ations, kind. true reliable and faith full. To his wife and children, tow er of strength; To his fatherless sisters in-laW, d father and friend While his life.s pathway was along quiet lines, many friends mourn, many will miss him. No word of consolation can cheer the bereayed ones, but rejoicing in their living faith, we can leave them to the tender care of their God remembering that
 "peath is the chillness that pre-
 cedes the dawn:
 We shudder for moment, then
 @-.aWake In the broad sunshine of the other
 fife. "
 BIOGRAPHICAL.
 Gee W. Pearson was born Decem- ber 2, ls3o, in Simpson county, in the southern part Of Mississippi, and was ;t seH of John AtkiH and Nancy Nieh- usJ Pearson. His father was a noted pioneer Methodist preacher of that section and did much toward the moral uplifting of the people ill the wide sweep of country over which his Hinistratiohs extended
 Mr Pearson was educated in the primary schools of his native county, afterwards entering the old Centenna- ry College at Jackson, Louisiana. from which institution he was graduated. lie began his business career as q tarmer but abandoned that for book keeping, at which he became expert. In ls52 he was married To Miss Mar gafet Ann Taylor, of Brandon, Ms sissippi. and to their union son, Will ham A. and daughter, Annie were born botho of whom reside It the old homestead and together with their mother, survive him
 George W. Pearson was Il gallant Confederate soldier He enlisted car H a> Il private ill Company l, sixth Mississippi regiment, C. S. IA, under command of Colonel afterwards Gen efatl LoWery. since governor of the State. and served brayely during the continuation of hOstilitieS.
 He located in Forrest City in 1872. and was soon thereafter appointed station agent of the Memphis X Lit ue Rock railroad-now the Rock