My Genealogy Hound

ROSANNA PEARSON; P. O. Tippecanoe City. Everyone in this vicinity is well acquainted with the lady named, and will read this brief sketch with interest; aside from the fact of her being the eldest pioneer now living in the township, she is mentally well gifted, and can tell of incidents that happened long ago; Rosanna Pearson has furnished considerable material for the Monroe Township history; she is the oldest lady now living in the township, and has a remarkable memory; she was born in South Carolina in 1797, and is now 82 years of age; she has a sister, Mrs. Margaret Ingle, who lives in Indiana, and is 93 years of age. Her father, Robert McClure, was a Captain in the Revolutionary war; his wife’s maiden name was Mary Buffington; they emigrated to Ohio in 1806. Rosanna was married to Enoch Pearson in 1815; they have six children living— Samuel, Enoch (the youngest child), Mahala Gates, Ruth Reisensaign, Tirzah Pemberton and Mrs. Margery Jenkins, who has given a great deal of information for this work; Rosanna’s husband died in 1860. When Robert McClure first settled in Shelby Co., there were no neighbors but Indians, and during the war of 1812, they moved to Fort Piqua; Rosanna gave the Indians who murdered Gerard, Dilbone and his wife, their dinner, the next day after the murder was committed; they had scarcely finished their meal when their pursuers arrived, hunting them; during one winter, Rosanna killed twenty-two coon, six wolves, two deer and one panther, with her rifle; she was a woman of much energy, and deserves to live long in the minds of the settlers of Miami Co.; Miss Alice Brown is her housekeeper, and makes her home with the old lady, whom we leave in excellent health.