Ralph & Ruth Pearce Family Heritage Challenge: Part I
Written December 25, 2006
Revised in HTML March 7, 2009
Can you answer the following questions correctly about our ancestors? All answers are available online at the Pearce Family heritage website: WWW.GEOCITIES.COM/PEARCE2002, click “E-Gen” and go to the older, original family indices, or click on the direct document link at the bottom of the page. Most of these narratives are available only in MSWord (.doc) at this time. Research is ongoing and information may be modified. There are five questions for each of the Pearce and Gray lines, not in any particular order. Younger participants may wish to print out these resources for school projects while older players will simply have the satisfaction of saying, “I didn’t know that!” Get started and good luck! Ruth and Ralph would appreciate knowing that our common heritage still keeps us together.
1. Who spent time in a British prison for his Quaker beliefs?
2. What “inconvenience” happened in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, that saved the life of a family patriarch and no doubt made your existence possible?
3. What two events took place simultaneously in the “Queen’s Church,” London in 1813 that was “attended by royalty?”
4. What incredible misfortune kept Ruth’s great-grandfather from serving in the American Civil War?
5. What title and duties did Ralph’s great-grandfather have in the Civil War that probably meant assisting with amputations?
6. What important product did the Pearce Woolen Mills provide for the early American auto industry?
7. Who was called “The Tomato King” by the H.J. Heinz family and why?
8. Who held one of the longest tenures among any of America’s college and university presidents? How long?
9. Who was killed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, in the Japanese invasion?
10. Who hitchhiked from Pittsburgh to California at age 16, as his father had at age 18, to work in an aircraft factory during World War II? He later worked on a riverboat along the Ohio and Mississippi.
Having trouble with a question or want to compare your answers with mine? E-mail me at: PEARCE@ATLANTICBB.NET.
Now, are you ready to tackle ten more questions on the Family Heritage Challenge: Part II? Most of these narratives have been written in HTML and are fully interactive. Just click on Ralph & Ruth Pearce Family Heritage Challenge: Part II and let me know how you do. Send me questions or ideas for future research and challenges.
FIND ANSWERS AT:
1. (http://www.geocities.com/pearce2002/beard.doc)
2. (http://www.geocities.com/pearce2002/jamesandmary.doc)
3. (http://www.geocities.com/pearce2002/famnar.doc)
4. (http://www.geocities.com/pearce2002/civilwar.doc)
5. (http://www.geocities.com/pearce2002/civilwar.doc)
6. (http://www.geocities.com/pearce2002/blanket2.doc)
7. (http://www.geocities.com/pearce2002/campfarm.doc)
8. (http://www.geocities.com/pearce2002/geneva.doc)