Description

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This book provides a unique glimpse into a life style of a family in the late 1800's. It becomes the truth that surpasses fiction, in the sense that this family is hardly representative. The book was birthed from genealogical research, and as such provides certain insights into the process of such research in general. The reader is involved in a real-life mystery surrounding a policy and approach of a government body - the Pension Board, and an individual's requests for a pension. But it expands past that - to a dysfunctional family and a tangled web. I would say this book will intrigue: anyone interested in genealogy anyone interested in the civil war anyone interested in human nature people who love to solve puzzles.

About the Author

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John Pierce has been interested in creative writing since his first exposure to it in high school. He would love to focus on every category, especially poetry, novels, novelettes and research. Finally, with the time and opportunity, he has managed to bring forth one of his areas of interest. As an amateur genealogist, he has spent years, mainly over the internet, gathering information on his family. He has relied mostly on US census information, and verifiable historical records and consistent posted genealogies posted by others. In the course of this research, he unearthed a fascinating set of facts concerning an almost-relative, namely a great uncle. This is an attempt to make that fascinating set of facts a part of the reader's life.