Individual Details

Remains removed from the Worthington Family Cemetery at Brentwood on June 29, 1864 and reinterred at Oak Hill Cemetery.

The Daily National Intelligencer
Saturday, July 8, 1837
Deaths
On the morning of the 7th instant in the 16th year of his age, Joseph Rowan Pearson, son of the late Joseph Pearson Esq. Gentle and affectionate in disposition, with a mind matured beyond his years by assiduous study, with a soul alive to virtue and deeply imbued with religious feeling, few, very few youths possessed more merit than the deceased, none have been more worthy to be lamented.
His funeral will take place from the late residence of his grandfather, Dr. Charles Worthington, deceased, at 5 o'clock tomorrow evening, (Sunday).

Birth	20 Oct 1821	Washington, D. C.
Death	7 Jul 1837	Georgetown, Washington, D. C.

Father	Joseph A. Pearson (1776 - 1834)
Mother	Catharine Worthington (1791 - 1868)
Sibling	Catharine W. Pearson (1825 - 1837)
Sibling	Eliza Worthington Pearson (1826 - 1902)
Sibling	Sarah Ellen Pearson (1827 - 1842)
Sibling	Josephine Pearson (1829 - 1852)
Sibling	Charles W. Pearson (1831 - 1835)
Sibling	William Gaston Pearson (1834 - 1861)