About Us
Finding Inspiration in Every Turn
Welcome to Pearson's Place and Anchor Lake. We are the owners of this wonderful property and we wanted to introduce you to some of the history of this property and our family. That history includes a bomber pilot in WWII, Surviving a plane crash in the Atlantic, Hurricanes, and Floods.
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Our Story
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We are Brian and Shannon, and although we met later in life it seems like we have spent a lifetime together.
Shannon's grandfather, Lemuel Pearson, left this land and the original home to her before he passed. Their relationship was something they both cherished. Lemuel's story is one of survival and Love. You can read his story below. Shannon has much of her grandfather's will to survive, as she and her 2 children survived a tree falling on her house during Hurricane Katrina and the long evacuation after. Then later the flooding of the original home on this property.
Brian is a served in the Air Force during Operation Desert Storm and continued service in the Army National Guard for 8 years. Brian also served as a volunteer fire fighter and EMT for more than 10 years. His value of service came from his father, who joined the Army Airborne in 1962. On his flight to duty station in Europe the plane he was flying on crashed in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. Survival was a harrowing experience that affected the rest of his life. You can read his story below, as well.
Lemule Pearson
Pearson's Place is meant to be a tribute to this man!
Lemule was a machinist in 1941, but after the bombing of Pearl Harbor he joined the Air Force as a private at the age of 21. He wanted to fly planes and ended up going to B-24 bomber school in Tucson, AZ. In 1943, he was sent to Europe and flew out of England. Pearson flew 31 combat missions over Europe, including 2 missions on D-Day over Normandy Beach. Although his plane suffered damage on several missions, he and his crew always returned safely. It wasn't until after the war, while stationed at Langley Air Field, his plane suffered and explosion in an engine and he and his crew had to bail out. He suffered a broken shoulder as a result of landing in a pine tree.
Later he was recalled to active duty to serve in Korea, although he did not see combat again.
Pearson earned numerous medals including the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.
At the age of 83, he went skydiving because he said he wanted to do it right and land on his feet.
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Larry "Skip" Davidson
Surviving Flying Tiger Flight 923
Pvt. Larry E. “Skip” Davidson, 19, of Manchester, Maryland, joined the Army in early April of 1962. He undertook the rigorous training in combat arms and then the techniques and methods of paratroopers who get into battle from the air. His entire paratrooper class got orders at graduation to ship out to a station in Germany. Reinforcements were urgently needed in the event that troubles with the Soviets got out of hand over the Cuban missile crisis and the Berlin wall.
On the way across the Atlantic Flying Tiger Flight 923 experience multiple engine failures and after more than 5 hours of knowing they were going to crash at sea, it finally happened. The crash was so violent that the hull tore open and the right wing tore off. The winds were so powerful that within minutes the four life rafts that were supposed to be in the wings were blown away and out of reach except for one.
51 of the 76 souls on board piled into this raft designed for 25 and drifted for more than 6 hours and over 22 miles in stormy seas. Eventually, a swiss freighter, the Celerina located the raft, and pulled all on board. Ultimately, 48 passengers and crew survived.
There is a website dedicated to this event. Click below to read many of the survivors stories...
Click the pdf to read Skip's first hand account of his ordeal