PIERSON, LENA HASKELL (1877~1935) Lena Haskell Pierson was born in 1877. In 1901, she married William M. Pierson. The couple had three children, two sons, and a daugter. Her husband was an Associate Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Pierson was murdered by her twenty-one-year-old son, Howard, on April 24, 1935.