According to the family bibles, Pearl Heinemann was named Josephine Pearl Heinemann. She was born on May 22, 1879 to Stephen Bernhard Heinrich Heinemann and Samantha Jane Watts. Pearl was the second of five children. After finishing the common school and attending Neoga High School, she taught two terms in Coles County, Illinois. She also worked in the millinery business in Mattoon and Lerna. Before going to Mattoon to work, she had a class in music at and near her home in Etna. She is a member of the Lerna M. E. (Methodist Episcopal) Church. Pearl married James William Warren Wilson on June 18, 1902 in Lerna, Coles County, Illinois. An article from the Lerna Enterprise described the wedding festivities as being held at home taking place at 8 in the evening. The same source showed another article announcing the wedding and a copy of their wedding announcement. That article mentioned that the wedding's prevailing colors were pink and white. The couple made their home in the town of Pleasant Grove, Village of Lerna, Illinois on the family farm of 80 acres. To Pearl and James were born 5 children: Monte Edwin, Pauline Dora, Wilma Majorie, Maxine Jane and Anna May. Following the tragic death of her husband from drowning in 1919, Pearls brother Charles Brunk Heinemann took her and the family under his wing. He paid for her to study millinery, then when he went to the Atlanta Stockyard, she ran the little cafe there. When he went to Washington D.C. where he was Secretary of the National Meatpackers Association, he moved her to Washington and helped her establish a boarding house a half mile from the White House. During her life, Pearl or "Nana" as she was called, lived with her son Monte Wilson, daughter Anna May and finally Marjorie Pace and was also a Past Worthy Matron of Eastern Star. "Nana" loved to work jigsaw puzzles, Chinese Checkers, work crossword puzzles and watch television. Pearl "Nana" died on June 11, 1970 in Arlington, Fairfax County, Virginia. She is buried at Janesville Cemetery in Janesville, Fulton County, Illinois. Some of the original information and records are in the possession of Charles Duane Wilson, Sr., the submitters cousin.
According to the family bibles, Pearl Heinemann was named Josephine Pearl Heinemann. She was born on May 22, 1879 to Stephen Bernhard Heinrich Heinemann and Samantha Jane Watts. Pearl was the second of five children. After finishing the common school and attending Neoga High School, she taught two terms in Coles County, Illinois. She also worked in the millinery business in Mattoon and Lerna. Before going to Mattoon to work, she had a class in music at and near her home in Etna. She is a member of the Lerna M. E. (Methodist Episcopal) Church. Pearl married James William Warren Wilson on June 18, 1902 in Lerna, Coles County, Illinois. An article from the Lerna Enterprise described the wedding festivities as being held at home taking place at 8 in the evening. The same source showed another article announcing the wedding and a copy of their wedding announcement. That article mentioned that the wedding's prevailing colors were pink and white. The couple made their home in the town of Pleasant Grove, Village of Lerna, Illinois on the family farm of 80 acres. To Pearl and James were born 5 children: Monte Edwin, Pauline Dora, Wilma Majorie, Maxine Jane and Anna May. Following the tragic death of her husband from drowning in 1919, Pearls brother Charles Brunk Heinemann took her and the family under his wing. He paid for her to study millinery, then when he went to the Atlanta Stockyard, she ran the little cafe there. When he went to Washington D.C. where he was Secretary of the National Meatpackers Association, he moved her to Washington and helped her establish a boarding house a half mile from the White House. During her life, Pearl or "Nana" as she was called, lived with her son Monte Wilson, daughter Anna May and finally Marjorie Pace and was also a Past Worthy Matron of Eastern Star. "Nana" loved to work jigsaw puzzles, Chinese Checkers, work crossword puzzles and watch television. Pearl "Nana" died on June 11, 1970 in Arlington, Fairfax County, Virginia. She is buried at Janesville Cemetery in Janesville, Fulton County, Illinois. Some of the original information and records are in the possession of Charles Duane Wilson, Sr., the submitters cousin.
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