[1] Pearce was married first to Mary E. Matthews in Muscogee County, Georgia in 1892.
She died in 1898 and is buried in Linwood Cemetery in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.
He had a son, Haywood Jefferson Pearce Jr., from his first marriage, who became a professor of history at Emory University.
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