When Eliphalet Pearson (1802 - 1870) died in New Orleans he had three living children: George Pearson (1842 - 1922), Caroline "Carrie" (Pearson) Granger (1845 - 1880), and Eliphalet Pearson (1848 - ?). Carrie was the first wife of Louis Edwin Granger and they had one daughter.
The outline of George's life is fairly simple. George was born about 1842 in Troy, New York, the oldest child of Eliphalet and Salome (Boutwell) Pearson. George was an auctioneer in New Orleans. He married Mary Louisa Deunkel, a daughter of Bavarian immigrants, in New Orleans in 1868. They had three children born in New Orleans: Catherine Louisa (1869 - before 1900), Lottie Isabelle (1872 - 1923) and George (1876 - 1950). The family lived in New Orleans until at least 1880. As late as the mid 1880s George was well known and remembered in New Orleans, but had apparently left the city. By 1900 the family had relocated to California. In California, George and Mary Louisa ran an investment company at least until Mary Louisa's death, in 1912. Mary Louisa died in the San Francisco bay area and was eventually interred in Colma City. A George Pearson died in 1922 in New Orleans in the Charity Hospital. He died of a carcinoma in the neck and chronic bronchitis. He was 80 years old and had been born in New York. The informant was the undertaker.
On the surface there is no connection to the family that moved to California and the man who died in New Orleans. However, when his daughter, Lottie Isabelle, died in San Francisco in 1923, the coroner send a telegram to New Orleans looking for the next of kin to claim the body. The response from the New Orleans coroner was her father George Pearson had died the previous fall and no next of kin were known.
George went back to New Orleans after his wife died. When? Why? Did he still have friends there? Family? His brother's children? His sister's daughter?
