Laurel Grove Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. Legacy Pearson became one of the most prolific guerrilla fighters in Florida during the Civil War as well as one of the most successful businessmen in Florida. Pearson's Orange Springs resort was transferred to his wife Sarah upon his death in Augusta. After the Civil War Orange Springs faced difficulties in tourism. The Townsend brothers bought up the property belonging to John Pearson and his descendants and built a summer house today called the James W. Townsend House. Two of his descendants, daughters Eliza and Kate, graduated from Columbia Female College in 1865 just before the burning of Columbia by William Tecumseh Sherman's forces. In 1898 Eliza donated Pearson's stars from his coat to the Museum of the Confederacy. Eliza also joined the United Daughters of the Confederacy and attended the 1907 meeting in Richmond, Virginia. Through his daughter, Eliza Pearson, he is the grandfather of Maxey Dell Moody who established the oldest family owned construction equipment distributor in the United States called M. D. Moody & Sons, Inc. in 1913 that gradually grew to become at one time the largest crane dealer in the Southeastern United States. His grandson John Pearson Moody and great grandson Muller Pearson Moody are named after him with his last name. Notes References Evans, Gen. Clement A. (1889). "Confederate Military History: Texas and Florida". Vol.XI. Confederate Publishing Company, Atlanta, Ga. Jennings, W.S., Governor (1903). "Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian – Civil and Spanish–American Wars". Prepared and published under the supervision of the Board of State Institutions as authorized by Chapter 2203, Laws of Florida, approved May 14, 1903. Loderhose, Gary (2000). "Way Down the Suwannee River: Sketches of Florida During the Civil War." Authors Choice Press. Weaver, Delores Barr and J. Wayne Weaver (2001). "Jacksonville: Crown of the First Coast". Towery Publishing, Inc. Sutherland, Daniel E. (2009). "Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War". North Carolina University Press. Taylor, Paul (2012). "Discovering the Civil War in Florida: A Reader and Guide". Second Edition. Pineapple Press. 1808 births 1864 deaths Confederate States of America military personnel killed in the American Civil War American white supremacists