Mary Susannah (Smith) Hacker (1778 - 1816)

Born 18 Sep 1778 in Rockingham County, Virginia, USA

Ancestors

Wife of John Hacker — married 29 Mar 1796 in Randolph Co., VA

Descendants

Died 21 Feb 1816 at age 37 in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, USA

Biography

Mary Susannah Smith was born 18 September 1778, a daughter of David Smith Sr and his wife Lydia Ball.

On 29 March 1796, Susannah married John Turner Hacker.^{[1] [2]} On the same day, her brother David Smith Jr married Sarah Hacker, daughter of John Hacker and his wife Margaret Sleeth (thus the sister of John Turner Hacker).

The family moved westward and northward frequently:^[3] In 1805 to Green County Ohio, in 1809 to the Big Darby Plains of what would become Montgomery County Ohio, near the Mad River.

Susannah Hacker had the following children: ^[4]

David - b. 24 July 1797, m. 20 May 1824 Catherine Giles, d. 20 June 1863

Nancy Ann - b. 2 Nov 179, m. 20 May 1824 Stephen Giles, d. 30 Jan 1845

Jonathan - b. 6 Mar 1802, m. 25 Dec 1823 Catherine Herring, d. 30 Jan 1845

John - b. 12 Jan 1804, m. 26 April 1827 Mary Giles, d. 25 Nov 1854

Jonas- b. 20 April 1806, m. 12 June 1827 Mary Cunningham, d. 30 Jan 1871

Elizabeth - b. 24 April 1808, d. 22 March 1871

William - b. 5 Dec 1810, m. 20 Jan 1839 Mary Ann Sargent, d. 29 March 1891

Thomas - b. 21 Oct 1813, m. (1) 24 February 1847 Evelina Sleeth (2) 17 June 1843 Lucretia Alexander, d. 3 Jan 1871

Sarah - b. 16 Feb. 1816, d. 28 Sept 1852

During the two years my father was serving in the army the care and superintendance of family matters rested entirely with my mother. This of course with eight small children around her to provide for taxed her physical powers to their utmost extent. And then without sufficient time to recuperate her energies after my fathers return their removing again into the woods as it were to commence life anew with all its hardships and deprivations was more than the delicate condition of the devoted wife and mother could bear up under. On the 16th day of February 1816 she was delivered of her ninth child. But so great were the discomforts she had undergone during the forepart of that cold winter her physical system had so run down and exhausted that from that child-bed she never rallied and five days from the birth of her child she quietly sunk into the embrace of death.

Susannah Hacker was buried on the family property in Montgomery County; the exact location is not now known.

A memorial to her was placed near the grave of John Turner Hacker in Shelbyville, Indiana, where he moved in 1833. FindAGrave: Unknown^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970, database, FamilySearch : 28 November 2018, John Hacker and Susannah Smith, 29 Mar 1796
2. ↑ Roberts: Page 17
3. ↑ Hackers Creek Norman, Don. "Descendants of William Hacker"
4. ↑ Roberts, page 41.
5. ↑ Hacker, William. "History of the Hacker Family." aka "The Hacker Record." 1880. p. 175. Held by Hackers Creek Pioneer Descendants, [1] [ridewithus.biz/HackerFamilyHistoryComplete.pdf]
6. ↑ Find a Grave, memorial page for Mary Susannah Smith Hacker (18 Sep 1778–13 Feb 1816), Find A Grave: Memorial #48660632, ; Maintained by Find A Grave (contributor 8) Unknown.

• Roberts, Eloise M. Four revolutionary soldiers (Avard, Okla.: [s.n.], 1924. )