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That Richmond Pearson had two sons named Richmond is assured. In his will of July 1819, he mentioned children of his deceased son Richmond and left a bequest to his son Richmond M. Pearson.

Richmond Mumford Pearson (1805-1878) was an American jurist who served as Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1858 to 1878. He was the father of Congressman Richmond Pearson and the father-in-law of North Carolina Governor Daniel Gould Fowle .
Pearson lived much of his life in what is now Yadkin County, North Carolina and was a lawyer, state legislator, and Superior Court judge before being named by the state legislature as a Supreme Court associate judge in 1848. He was a prominent pro-Union Whig Party politician before the American Civil War and eventually became a Republican after the war.
As Chief Justice, the "domineering" Pearson helped the Court survive the Civil War and saw it through the 1868 constitutional change that made the Court justices elected by popular vote, rather than by the General Assembly (legislature). Pearson had been serving for 10 years as chief justice by 1868 and was elected that year (as a Republican) as the first popularly elected chief justice.
Pearson almost faced impeachment in 1870, after he was perceived by Democrats as acquiescing to Gov. William W. Holden's actions against the Ku Klux Klan . But the presence of many of Pearson's former students in the legislature is believed to have prevented him from being impeached. Instead, Pearson presided over Holden's impeachment trial, the only one in North Carolina history.
Pearson also started a law school in 1848 that lasted until 1878 in his Yadkin County estate called "Richmond Hill." The present day community of Richmond Hill in Yadkin County is named for the law school. Many of Pearson's students lived or worked across the Yadkin River in the village of Rockford in Surry County

Pension Application of Jacob Trout - S1780
Rowan Co, NC Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, Aug 1832. 20 Aug 1832, appeared Jacob Trout age about 83 years. Entered the service of U.S. under Captain Haden [Douglas Haden], in the Regt commanded by Col. William Loftin under General Rutherford. He served six moths and was marched from Rowan Co to Wilmington. Previously he was drafted but his parents being old and infirm, they helped him hire a substitute. He gave the money to Capt. Richmond Pearson, who hired the substitute for 12 months. He has a certificate of his discharge. Signed: Jacob (x) Trout.
24 Aug 1832. Richmond Pearson made oath that sometime in the year 1830, the Discharge of Jacob Trout was put in his hands to procure a bounty of land in Tennessee, but he found that Trout was not entitled to land. He has lost it and does not remember the name of the officer, but it was for service in the NC militia.
Note: Richmond Pearson who served in the Revolution was already dead - this must be his son who has lost the discharge certificate in 1830.

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RICHMOND MUNFORD PEARSON 1805-1878
STATE SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE 1858-1878
He was married twice: first on June 12, 1832, to Margaret McClung Williams, daughter of United States Senator John Williams of Tennessee, and niece of Hugh L. White, also United States Senator from Tennessee and unsuccessful candidate for president in 1836; and second in 1859 to the widow of General John Gray Bynum, Mary McDowell Bynum. Judge Pearson and Margaret had one son, Richmond Pearson, born in 1852.

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Richmond Mumford Pearson
Birth: Jun. 28, 1805 North Carolina, USA
Death: Jan. 5, 1878 Winston-Salem Forsyth County North Carolina, USA
Born near Coolemee, NC. Son of Richmond and Eliza C. Mumford Pearson. Husband of (1)Margaret McClung Williams Pearson, with who he had the following children: (Note: Childrens names except for Richmond M. taken from the 1850 census): Elizabeth M., Mary W., Sarah (Sallie)C., John W., Laura G., Fanny E., and Richmond M. Pearson. Mr. Pearson was an attorney, and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He married (2) Mary Louisa McDowell, who was the widow of John Gray Bynum I, making him the step-father of John Gray Bynum II, an attorney who died in Greensboro, NC.
Burial: Oakwood Cemetery Raleigh Wake County North Carolina, USA
Record added: Dec 15 2006 By: BCBurt

Birth	28 Jun 1805	Rowan County, North Carolina
Death	1878	Winston, Forsyth County, North Carolina

Father	Richmond Pearson (1751 - 1819)
Mother	Eliza Coit Mumford (1769 - 1843)
Sibling	Margaret Eliza Pearson (1800 - )
Sibling	Sarah A. Pearson (1802 - )
Sibling	Charles R Pearson ( - )
Sibling	Giles William Pearson (1807 - 1847)
Sibling	John Stokes Pearson (1808 - 1849)