Hannah's Story

What does a pre-teen girl in early Texas treasure most in the world? - her family, her home, her identity. Hannah Grace Williams suffers the loss of all three in the Killough Massacre of 1838. As far as she knows, she is the sole survivor and so throws her lot in with a family of friendly Cherokee Indians. In Part Two, she accompanies her "new" family to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) when all Indians are expelled from Texas. However, bad weather and back luck force the Cherokees and Hannah back toward Texas, although good friends make it a difficult move. Part Three sees Hannah return to her roots in Talledega, Alabama, only to learn that the Killough family no longer lives there. Her fall-back plan is to return to Texas and the site of the earlier massacre. There, she finds her few remaining relatives and a new life for herself. Despite all the loss she has suffered, she finds that she "likes who she is."