Saturday, October 4, 2025

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Benjamin F. Pearson, November 20, 1862

I spent the day seeing about my crop on my river farm evening Emma & I was at prayer meeting and after meeting we called & spent an hour with Judge Geo Wright1 I received a letter with the information of the happy death of Sister Sophia Phillips in Cecil Co Md on the 11th
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1 George G. Wright of Keosauqua, judge of the Supreme Court of Iowa for fifteen years, and United States senator from Iowa for six years.

SOURCE: Edgar R. Harlan, Currator, Annals of Iowa, 3rd Series, Vol. 15, No. 2, October 1925, pp. 95-6

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