Pearlie Hartsell daughter of John Adam
Is there any possibility one of the descendents of John Adam may remember his youngest daughter? Pearlie? I believe her middle name was Canella...that could be a misspelling of what her name was but as it was recorded in a family bible of her sister's ... Anni Shinn Hedrick.
Hattie Mae Poston married John Adam Hartsell when she was about 16 (he was 58) in 1902. She had a child named Pearlie born in either August or October of 1903.
We can't find any record of her since the 1910 census when she is living with her step father, Daniel Shinn and Hattie Mae, her mother and Willie Bell Hartsell, her father.
From there, she seems to have vanished. Her mother (my dad's grandmother) died in 1974..there is no mention of her in Hattie Mae's obituary of having even been born to her.
We do have a record of her as Hattie Mae's daughter as recorded in Anni's bible...only as HARTSELL, though there is some mention of her having possibly used her step father's name SHINN while growing up.
Anni's grandchildren do not know what happened to Pearl. they knew about her but never met her. They said their grandmother never mentioned her to them and their mother had told them that both Pearl and my grandfather, Willie, were Hattie Mae's siblings, not her children.
There are records of a Pearl Hartsell who died in Rockwell (Rowan) in 1980 and a Pearl Shinn who died there in 1989. Both were born in 1903. There is a Pearl Hartsell who died in Stanly back in 1958. The family of Anni Shinn Hedrick believe that she must have died before her mother or there would have been some mention of her and they would have known about her. She would have at least been mentioned in the obituaries of her mother and sisters and brothers who'd gone on before her otherwise.