Transcribed by Stephen Carroll Pearsall<\/p>\n
DIED – Rocky Point, N. C., Dec. 2. – W. W. Pearsall, Sr<\/strong>., 62, died at his home here at 4 p.m. yesterday after a lengthy illness. Mr. Pearsall was a former member of the county board of education and had been chairman of Pender county board of elections for the past eight years and always active in community affairs.<\/p>\n He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Belle Sparkman Pearsall<\/strong>, and seven children:\u00a0\u00a0W. W., Jr., Mrs. Beverly Paul,Eloise<\/strong> and Martha K<\/strong>., and S. F. Pearsall<\/strong>, all of Rocky Point. Mrs. J. Wilbur Breece<\/strong> of Fayetteville, and C. E. Pearsall<\/strong> of Wilmington. Two brothers and a sister also survive.<\/p>\n Funeral services were held from the Rocky Point Methodist church Thursday at 4 p.m. Interment followed in Pike Creek Cemetery.<\/p>\n Active pallbearers were: Allison Croom, Joe I. Moore, James Pearsall, Dr. H. W. Stevens, Jr., Joseph Casey, Jr., J. A. Casha and R. H. Balcombe.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Source: Wilmington News, 2 Dec 1943<\/em><\/p>\n Note: William Wilson Pearsall was born in Duplin County, NC on 22 Mar 1883, the son of Edward Dickson Pearsall<\/strong> and Barbara Susan Armstrong<\/strong>. Barbara was the daughter of Thomas James Armstrong<\/strong>. William Wilson Pearsall and Mary Belle Sparkman were married at the Rocky Point M. E. Church on 12 Jan 1909.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Transcribed by Stephen Carroll Pearsall DIED – Rocky Point, N. C., Dec. 2. – W. W. Pearsall, Sr., 62, died at his home here at 4 p.m. yesterday after a lengthy illness. Mr. Pearsall was a former member of the county board of education and had been chairman of Pender county board of elections for … Continue reading “PEARSALL, William Wilson (1943)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12207],"tags":[12181,12311,12307,6893,12308,6884,12223,12191,12169],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individualobituary","tag-armstrong","tag-balcombe","tag-breece","tag-casey","tag-croom","tag-moore","tag-pearsall","tag-sparkman","tag-stevens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/pender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}