annie was born in 1860 of a coos indian mother and a white father, james miner, whom she never met, at the native village of willanch (wu'læ'ænch, meaning good-weather-place) at the present-day cooston, on the east shore of upper coos bay on the southern oregon coast. she was one of the last coos indians to grow up in the traditional coos culture. as an infant she was taken by her mother to the coastal indian reservation at yaquina bay, and later removed to the sub-agency at yachats where she grew up and married, first to an abusive older hanis man, and later to william jackson, an alsea indian her own age. through their daughter, nellie (aason), there are descendants to the present day. annie married three more times, unhappily, but her last marriage was a happy and compatible relationship with a swedish logger named carl peterson. they both died of tuberculosis in 1939 at their home on lower coos bay.