Obituary
MRS. PEARSALL SUCCUMBS IN NORFOLK, VA.
Funeral Services Will be Conducted from Home of F. S. Duffy Friday
Funeral Services for Mrs. P. M. Pearsall, 75, who died in a
Norfolk hospital yesterday morning will be held from the home of F. S.
Duffy on East Front street, at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Mrs. Pearsall underwent a major operation Saturday. She had been
in failing health for some time.
The remains, accompanied by a brother and a niece, will arrive here
at 3:50 o'clock this afternoon from Norfolk and will be taken to the
Duffy home. At the services tomorrow, Dr. B. F. Huske, rector of St.
Mary's Episcopal church in Kinston, assisted by Rev. C. E. Williams of
this city, will officiate, and burial will be held in Cedar Grove
cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be: J. S. Claypool, George S. Attmore,
J. Guion Dunn, P. O. Jarvis, Bryan Duffy and Thomas O. Moore. Hononary
pallbearers will be: E. K. Bishop, T. D. Warren, L. I. Moore, F. S.
Duffy, J. T. Hollister, R. A. Nunn, Dr. N. M. Gibbs, and J. H. Parker.
Mrs. Pearsall was a native of Bertie county. Her first husband
Walter Burrus of this city and her second the late Colonel Pearsall.
She is survived by: one sister, Mrs. M. M. Eason, of Lewiston, N. C.;
a brother, Dr. A. Capehart, of Roxobel; four step-daughters; Mrs. H. C.
Lumsden, of the city, Mrs. Ralph Gray, of Washington, Mrs. Tom Burrus,
of Fairfield, and Miss Jennie Burrus, of Sarasota, Fla.
Source: New Bern Tribune, New Bern, NC, Thursday, May 16, 1935 (p1:6)
Note by submitter:
Margaret (Maggie) L. Capehart was the daughter of William J. Capehart
and Eliza Mason of Roxobel, Bertie Co, NC. Her brother, Dr. Alanson
Capehart; her sister, Minnie Capehart Eason and her parents are buried
in St. Mark's Episcopal Cemetery, Roxobel, Bertie County, NC.
Her first husband was Walter P. Burrus who died in New Bern in 1912.
Her last husband was P. M. Pearsall, a native of Sampson County, NC who
died in New Bern on 20 Feb 1923. Patrick Murphy (P.M.) Pearsall was the
son of Joseph Dickson Pearsall and Mary Bailey Murphy of Duplin and
Sampson counties.
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