Indiana Pierce

Indiana Pierce

My Daddy, Cornelius named me Indiana. As part of the first-generation Indiana Pierces, reck’on he was mighty proud of the start his family had made in their new home. After the war, the Civil War, and after the death of Grandpa Pierce, he moved Momma, my sisters and me to Brooklyn, New York. Times were tough. He took a position as a policeman. Grandpa had come from these parts, Kings County they called it then. Daddy looked mighty fine in his policeman’s uniform. But, after a little while, a couple of years, Daddy got sick and died. Consumption. Momma, now widowed, moved back to her home, our home in Franklin County, Indiana. Back to the old canal town, back to Duck Creek, residing in Laurel. She’d remarry after a spell and we’d get along alright. I never was never much called Indiana, you see not quite right for a lass. I’d go by Ana or Anna, shortening my name. more proper for the woman I was to become. Indiana Jones was a fictional character in the movies, Indiana Pierce, Anna was an actual distant cousin.