Annie Peters Spiers c.1903ANNIE "OAKLEY" SPIERS
By Leslie C. Spiers
I believe that it was one day in 1933 that my uncle Gordon and a couple of other men were shooting at a fence post with a six-shot revolver. I was watching and later tried to dig some of the bullets out of the post. The men decided that my grandmother, Annie Spiers, should learn how to shoot the revolver since only she and uncle Edgar were left on the farm and Edgar was away in the daytime working for a Mr. Birch, who had a farm next door. They talked Grandma into coming out on the veranda and shooting at the tree to which the clothes line was attached. This clothes line had a pulley at each end so that the clothes could be hung out to dry without leaving the veranda. Grandma took careful aim at the tree, pulled the trigger, and.........shot the clothesline down! This was a great joke; even years later people would die laughing at the time Grandma shot the clothesline. I don't think Grandma ever fired that gun again.
