Person:Deserie Pearce (1)

Eve, or Deserie as she was named was first married to a Mr . Martin and according tothe 1910 census, Ft. Worth, Tarrant County, Texas was the mother of seven children all deceased at that time. She became the mail order bride of Stephen Holland Mulkey, a man who was older than her father Nicholas would have been. She tried to be a mother to his grown children and baby sat his grand children treating them as her own. When

Mr. Mulkey died he left his entire estate to her but his children contested the will . According to legal papers at the time she was "Non Compus Mentis". When the final decision came down in 1918 she was left penniless. She moved to San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas to live with her sister Juanita and her husband Charles Bennett. They rented a home together. She was a member of the Woodsman Circle. She died in 1919 and was buried at Mission Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas. The diagnosis on her death certificate was legarthic encephalitis.