Lewis C. Pearce

Birth Date

1810

Death Date

1891-06-24

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Maysville, Kentucky, merchant and banker. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Pearce and Mary Bridges Pearce. Married to Eliza Ann Stockwell Pearce. Father of Llewellyn T. Pearce, Virginia M. Pearce, William A. Pearce, James L. Pearce, Hiram M. Pearce, Charles B. Pearce, Eliza L. Pearce, and Samuel Pearce. Merchant in Maysville in 1850. Owned seven enslaved persons in 1850. Banker in Maysville in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, City of Maysville, District 1, p. 33A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, City of Maysville, District 1, p. 689.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, City of Maysville, p. 320.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, City of Maysville, p. 4B.
Lewis C. Pearce: A Former Citizens of Maysville Passes Away at Covington," Maysville Evening Bulletin (Maysville, Ky.), June 26, 1891, p. 2.
"Charles Bridges Pearce," Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky(1896), p. 458-9.
Find A Grave, "Lewis C. Pearce (1810-1891)," Memorial #136090646, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136090646 (accessed August 28, 2017).

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