Francis Pearce and family in New Zealand

Francis Pearce and family in New Zealand —At the end of Part 1, Francis (Frank) and Mary welcomed the birth of my grandfather, Earl Pearce, in 1892 in Granite, Montana. Francis, a miner from Cornwall, had emigrated to the US in 1884, traveling first to New Almaden Quicksilver Mine near San Jose, California, then to Montana, which was experiencing a silver mining boom.