Edwin Hobbs with Helen Pierson.
Helen B. Pierson was born in Morristown NJ , September 17th 1891. Her parents were Joseph F Pierson and Harriet Little. Her father was a letter carrier for the post office.
Her great great Grandfather was Job Pierson 1768-1852. He first appears on the 1806 census in Mount Freedom NJ. He was a farmer and a nail maker. He was a founder of the Mount Freedom Presbyterian Church in 1820. The family farm was along Hanover Avenue in the Shongum section, near where the Morris View nursing home is today.
His son, Helen's great grandfather, Alpheus Pierson 1806-1891 was also a farmer, nailmaker as well as a storekeeper and Justice of the Peace.
Helen's grandfather was named Alpheus Ebenezer Pierson 1841-1925, and was a butcher as well as a dealer in hides and tallow, who lived in Morristown.
The sources disagree as to where Job Pierson came from, the 1850 census says he was born in NJ, the 1880 census listing for his son gives Jobs birth location as NY. Another local history says he was from England.
Many of the Morristown area Piersons were descendants of Thomas Pierson who was among the first English settlers in the area. He built a sawmill in 1685 near the Greystone State Hospital site.
I could not find anything on the family of Helens mother, Harriet Little, except that her parents came from Ireland in 1863. Helen's Grandmother Jane Little and her Uncle William Leslie Little lived next door at 7 Hazel Street in Morristown according to the 1900 and 1910 census.
