Phillip Anderson Pearson (1831 - 1918)

Born 16 Dec 1831 in Goldsboro, Wayne, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Amanda Caroline (Roscoe) Pearson — married 23 Jul 1867 in Sumner, Tennessee, United States

Died 18 Jun 1918 at age 86 in Monteagle, Marion, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Phillip was born in 1838. He is the son of Solomon Pearson and Mary Sasser.

Phillip Anderson Pearson was born on December 16, 1831, in Goldsboro, North Carolina, the son of Mary and Solomon. He married Amanda Caroline Roscoe on July 23, 1867, in Sumner, Tennessee. They had one child during their marriage. He died on June 18, 1918, in Monteagle, Tennessee, having lived a long life of 86 years, and was buried there.

Source: Find A Grave Philip A. Pearson was the son of Solomon and Mary (Raiford) Sassor Pearson from North Carolina and Tennessee respectively. His maternal grandparents were strong advocates for the cause of the South during the Civil War. However, his paternal grandparents stemmed from the Quaker faith leading them to be loyal to the Union cause.

His father so wanted him to attend school at the University of the South. However, some of those buildings had been destroyed by Union troops during the war causing Philip to get his education elsewhere. In 1867 he married Amanda Caroline Roscoe and went about his ministry in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The 1870’s saw the little village of Moffat Station grow like a weed on a narrow strip of the plateau. A Chautauqua later came together with the name of Monteagle Sunday School Assembly, or MSSA. Later the cottage, Stone Court, would become home to the Pearsons.

On June 18, 1918, Philip succumbed to a painful kidney ailment. “Trembling, at the age of 80 he delivered his last sermon in a crowded one-room schoolhouse and church, some two and a half miles from Monteagle--every sentence in words of one syllable, for he was a master of the Anglo-Saxon vocabulary. His text was, ‘Come all ye who need rest and peace.’ It was a fitting close to his ministry.” (Quote is taken from Josephine’s accounts of her father’s life.) The little church was probably the Summerfield Church originally built by Basil Summers. His death certificate notes that he was a super-annuated minister being over eighty years of age. His funeral was not a minor occasion. According to Josephine’s records, the village people asked to carry her father’s body in relays from the home on the MSSA to just inside the entrance to the Monteagle Cemetery. There he was placed beside his wife. One obituary account wrote that Philip was placed in the grave with his wife. Either way, he was at his final stop on this earth. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157174442

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