I removed Susannah's middle initial "B" as it has no strong source for its accuracy. In my years of research on her I have never found a shred of evidence that she even had a middle name. The closest I've found that she might have had another name, other than Susannah was 1) My great grandfather's, (David S Pearson) death certificate which was filled out by his attending physician with no known real knowledge of his family entered her name as Elizabeth which I am certain is a mistake. 2) some years after my grandfather Ernie Pearson passed away, I had a conversation with my step grandmother Bessie who said to me after asking her about if she ever heard of a middle name for both Silas and Susannah that she "thought" it might be a name that may have started with a "B" but wasn't sure. There was a time that I ran with the information and entered a "B" as her middle initial as well as a middle name for Silas which she thought it was "Benjamin" despite the fact that after hours and years of research on them including hundreds of papers such as military records funeral birth and death records and newspaper articles none of which supports any of them having a middle name. Once I entered it on Ancestry, I quickly regretted it as dozens of other researchers jumped on it immediately and made assumptions it was true. I have since recanted putting them in as middle name and initials and removed it. I am still reaping the consequences and have learned my lesson that others would take the lazy route and enter in information despite it not being documented. We all do that to varying degrees. Steve Pearson
