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A. L. Pearson, a well known farmer of Fayette County, Tenn., was born in Christian County, Ky., near Hopkinsville, October 24, 1812, and is the son of Samuel and Rebecca (Reader) Pearson, both natives of South Carolina. The father was of English descent, born May 5, 1771, and died in Fayette County, Tenn., September 20, 1856, at the advanced age of eighty-six. The mother was supposed to be of English descent also, and was a few years younger than her husband and died in Christian County, Ky., May 9, 1818. They married in South Carolina December 10, 1797, and moved to Kentucky in 1803. Two years after our subject’s mother died, the father married Mrs. Elizabeth (Stanley) Pipkins, and for seventeen years after this marriage remained a citizen of Kentucky. The second wife died July 29, 1833, and three years later the father moved to Fayette County, Tenn., settling twenty miles south of Somerville, where he died. He was by trade a blacksmith, which he followed in connection with farming. He was a Whig in politics, and with our subject’s mother belonged to the Primitive Baptist Church. Our subject is the ninth of eleven children. He was still young when his father moved to Fayette County and settled in the Tenth District where he has since resided. He received a good education. In 1839 he purchased a farm of 160 acres, and in 1842 with the assistance of an older brother he added 200 more acres to this, and March 10, 1842, he married Miss Martha L. Rodgers, who was born in Maury County, Tenn., in 1826, and they had eleven children—six sons and five daughters—two sons and four daughters are dead. Mr. Pearson has been an energetic man all of his life, and though he began poor he now owns 680 acres of good land in Fayette County, a cotton-gin, etc. He is a Democrat, and with his wife and two of the children belongs to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, He has many warm friends and is an upright, generous man.