Bosque County: Land and People (A History of Bosque County, Texas) Page: 575
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In 1914, after the death of James Franklin,
Mamie being left with seven children to raise,
took over the responsibility of farming and
making a living for her family. There were
relatives and friends who helped her. Several
years later Mamie remarried and moved her
family to West Texas. She died in 1974 at the
age of one hundred years and was buried at
Post, Texas.
Only one of the children of James and
Mamie continued to live in Bosque County.
This was Ruby who married Early Steen.
They lived in the Cedron community where
they farmed.
After Early's parents' deaths he inherited
part of their place and farmed it also. They
had one son, Weldon Odell Steen (b. 1916)
who grew up and attended the Cedron school.
In 1966, due to Early's bad health, they sold
their farm and bought a home in Meridian,
where they lived until their deaths. They are
buried in the Meridian Cemetery.
In 1936 Odell Steen married Lenore Ste-
phenson (b. 1918) whose birthplace was
Plantersville, Texas in Grimes County. Odell
and Lenore farmed his grandparents place
several years, and later moved to Steiner
where he worked for Archie Campbell as
foreman of his ranch. In 1949 they bought the
old Frank Wright place in the Cedron
community. Odell worked in Cleburne at
Rangaire for twelve years and has been with
the Kopperl School System for twenty-one
years. During this time he has driven the
school bus for twenty years.
Odell and Lenore have three children,
Charles Eugene (b. 1937) who served in the
Navy three years and has two children,
Tiffany Lane (b. 1966) and Bart Anthony (b.
1969), Stephen Anthony (b. 1943) retired
from the Air Force after twenty years service
and lives in Austin, Texas, Annalee (b. 1946)
married Jack Lee Rowland Jr. in 1964 and
they have one son Jack Lee Rowland III (b.
1971), better known as Jay. They live on their
ranch, the R.&R., east of Morgan.
by Lenore Stephenson Steen
PEARCE, ALFRED COLE FAMILY
F932Margaret Louise Lattimore
Alfred Cole Pearce
Alfred Cole Pearce, sixth son of James and
Lucinda Allison Pearce, was born in 1823 in
Illinois. He and several of his brothers
migrated through Arkansas into Louisiana,
in 1843, and there he was married to Mildred
Ann Bauman in 1845. They are listed in the
1860 census for Bosque County, but Alfred
Cole must have come earlier, for he is listed
as the first county treasurer.
When Mildred Ann died in 1869, Mr.
Pearce was left with ten children. They were:
William Wriley III, Charles Adam, Virginia
Victoria, Mary Ann, John Abney, Franklin,
Yeulee, Martha Alice, Terry, and Josephine
Florence. There are many descendants of
these children scattered across the country.
In 1872, in Meridian, Alfred Cole was
married to Margaret Louise (Lattimore)
Tipton, a young widow with one child,
Georgia Helen. Margaret's family had come
from Alabama, and settled around Jackson-
ville, Texas. Soon three more children were
added to the household. These were Fanny
May Pearce, later to become the wife of John
Buckner Barry; Maude Adner, who became
Mrs. John Webster; and Alfred Cole Pearce,
Jr.
Fanny May, my grandmother, was a wom-
an of many talents. She left many beautiful
pictures that she had painted. She was a
graceful dancer, and partners at old settlers'
reunions were numerous. She was an avid
reader and took great interest in politics,
keeping a scrapbook of current events. She
died in Walnut Springs in 1940. Her children
were Vera Annapolis, who later married
Dennis Edwin Kemp, son of Dr. Joseph
Kemp; Pearce Kossuth Barry, and Harold
Buckner Barry. The homeplace, west of
Walnut Springs and not far from Fanny
May's girlhood home on Jackson Crossing,
was a fascinating place to be during the
summers that we grandchildren visited there.
Maude Pearce, an accomplished musician,
became the wife of John Webster, who was
associated with the Katy shops. Most of their
married life was lived in Waco, but both are
buried in Oak Grove Cemetery. Their only
child was Alfred Hale Webster. Alfred's
daughter is Helen Maude Shidaker of Waco.6 ,
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575
Alfred Cole Pearce Jr. (Fred C.) became a
lawyer and practiced in West Texas before
moving to California in the early 1930s. He
was married to Sadie Montgomery, and was
the father of three children, all living in
California. They were Margaret Louise, Fred
Jr., and Monty.
Alfred Cole died in 1878, at Jackson
Crossing on the Bosque River. He is buried
near the site of the old home-place in a small
plot accessible by foot only. There are several
other graves, but the writer does not know the
identities of others buried there.
Margaret Louise was married for the third
time in 1879, to Judson Cary Jackson. With
the step-children and four of her own to raise,
she must have indeed needed help; however,
by this time some of the older Pearce children
had established homes and had taken some
of their younger brothers and sisters. In 1881
she and Mr. Jackson became the parents of
Judson Roy Jackson, who with his wife
Estelle, lived his entire life in Walnut
Springs. Another son, Claude was born in
1885, but died in 1892. Mr. Jackson was
known as a very intelligent and quiet man,
and was a good father to the little Pearces.
Margaret Louise died in 1922, outliving Mr.
Jackson by twelve years. They are buried in
Oak Grove Cemetery. "Grandma" Jackson,
as she was known, was a well-loved woman
and one of great courage. Her granddaughter,
Vera Barry Kemp, remembers hearing the
story of how she held off some marauding
Indians single-handedly. Another story con-
cerns a little table, still in the granddaugh-
ter's possession, built by a man to pay her for
spinning and weaving the material for a suit
of clothes for him.
by Mary Lee Keith
PEARSON, W. C.
F933
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Bosque County History Book Committee. Bosque County: Land and People (A History of Bosque County, Texas), book, 1985; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth91038/m1/591/?q=campbell: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Denton Public Library.