Miami Union

December 7, 1911 

PEARSON, SYLVANUS - Sylvanus Pearson, aged 50 years, after sixteen years of suffering, due to rheumatism, died at St. Elizabeth's hospital in Dayton, Sunday afternoon.  The body was taken to Tippecanoe City, Tuesday morning and taken to the M. E. church where the funeral services were held, Rev. Coffman being in charge.  Interment was made in the Quaker cemetery.  Mr. Pearson was a brothers of Warren Pearson and half-brother of Mrs. Keifer Westlake.  He had been a member of the Nashville Christian church for thirty years.