Charles Bridges Pearce

Birth Date

1823-05-07

Death Date

1905-05-14

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Mason County, Kentucky, merchant and banker. Fleming County, Kentucky native. Son of William Pearce and Mary Bridges Pearce. Married to Maria Shultz Pearce in Mason County, Kentucky on October 26, 1848. Father of Lewis Edward Pearce, Charlotte Pearce, Christian Pearce, Charles Pearce, Lottie Pearce, and Mary Pearce. Dry goods merchant in partnership with Lewis C. Pearce and Hiram T. Pearce in Mason County from 1840 to 1844. Merchant in Mason County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. Merchant in partnership with Joseph Wallingford in Mason County from 1860 to 1866. Owned five enslaved persons in Mason County in 1860. Broker in Mason County in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 33A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 364.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 3B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 402B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mason County Marriages, Film 000281843.
Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Mason County Wills, vol. Z, 1900-1924, p. 293.
Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 15, Mason County, Kentucky, 1862, p. 10.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Mason County, KY, October 1863.
"Merchants' Cards, Etc," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 5 Jan 1844, p. 1.
"Charles Bridges Pearce," Public Ledger, (Louisville, KY), 15 May 1905, p. 1.
"Charles Bridges Pearce," Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky(1896), p. 458-9.
"Charles Bridges Pearce (1823-1905)," Find A Grave, Memorial 134353453, accessed March 28, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/134353453.

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