American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts

Note

Henry Lewis Pierson, son of Jeremiah Halsey Pierson and Sarah Colt Pierson, married his cousin, Helen Maria Pierson, in New York in December 1830. She was the daughter of Isaac Pierson and Helen M. Fort. Together, Henry and Helen had eight children, of whom their youngest son Isaac died at one year of age. Helen died the following year in 1845, and mother and child are buried together in Gates of Praise Cemetery in Ramapo, New York. Henry is also buried there.