Anna Susannah Parker

GEDCOM Note

From HIERS website:

Seventh Generation

21. Jacob HIERS Jr (John Jacob-6, Michael-5, Hans-4, Michel-3, Michel-2, Michael-1) was born on 6 Dec 1739 in Pfalzgrafenweiler, Wurttemburg, Germany. He was baptized on 7 Dec 1739 in Pfaltzgrafenweiler, Wurttemberg, Germany. He died ~1806 in Colleton County, SC. Known as Johann Jakob Heyer in Germany. Jacob HIERS Jr and Catherine HOWARD were married ~1779.Catherine HOWARD (daughter of John HOWARD and Anna Margareth INMAN) was born ~1762. She died ~1810. Jacob HIERS Jr and Catherine HOWARD had the following children:

+29 i. Anna Susannah HIERS (born in 1790).

Eighth Generation

29. Anna Susannah HIERS (Jacob-7, John Jacob-6, Michael-5, Hans-4, Michel-3, Michel-2, Michael-1) was born in 1790 in Colleton County, SC., Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia states that she was born in 1791 She died on 28 Jan 1857 in Liberty Co., Georgia.

Anna Susannah HIERS and William Hall PARKER Sr were married ~1808. William Hall PARKER Sr was born between 1740 and 1750 in North Carolina. He was born in 1750 in Colleton County, SC. He was born in 1765 in Onslow Co., North Carolina. He died in 1838 in Jones Creek, Liberty Co., Georgia. He was born ~1750 in Newborn, North Carolina. He. "Came to Ludowici area in 1811. If I remember the story correctly, they moved from a small farm they had on Wilmington Island. Prior to that, they had lived in an area that is now north Charleston." He served in the military. Tradition says that he moved to South Carolina from the area of New Bern, N.C. It is believed that he had three wives: (1) ___Ferguson (2) ___Walker and (3) Anna Susannah Hiers. By ___Ferguson he is thought to have had at least one son, John, who was dead by 1818, and by ___ Walker two sons, Richard H. and Little Berry, who later moved to Florida.

On January 6, 1794, William Parker was granted an 810 acre tract in Colleton Co., S.C. near land belonging to Michael Hires, Godfrey Hiers, Berry Walker and others. In 1811 William Hall Parker moved with his family from Colleton District, SC to Liberty Co., GA. He was a private in Capt. John Winns's Company, 2nd (Pray's) Regiment Georgia Militia and was stationed at Fort Telfair (Beard'sBluff) on the Altamaha river, Jan. 18 - Feb. 26, 1815.

The 1830 US Census of LIberty Co., GA lists William Hall Parker as a Revolutionary Soldier and shows that he was then between 80 and 90 years of age. He and his wife, Anna Susannah Hiers, two sons, Thomas and Jacob, and three grandchildren are buried in a small square on the orginial plantation now owned by Mary Parker.

A US government marker reads "William H. Parker Sr., South Carolina, Rev. War, 1750-1838", and another marble marker has the inscriptioin, "William H. Parker and his wife Anna S. Parker came to this place from S.C. 1811". Anna Susannah HIERS and William Hall PARKER Sr had the following children:

+30 i. Solomon PARKER (born on 8 Aug 1809). +31 ii. Rev William Hall PARKER Jr (born on 30 Jun 1811). 32 iii. George Washington PARKER was born on 30 Jul 1814 in Georgia. +33 iv. Anna Susannah PARKER (born on 23 Feb 1816). 34 v. Catherine PARKER was born on 17 Aug 1821 in Georgia. 35 vi. Hampton Cling PARKER> was born on 29 Apr 1825 in Georgia. Hampton enlisted in the Confederate Forces at Savannah on August 17, 1861...The Parker family wa involved in state politics. Hampton was a Justice of the Inferior Court of Liberty County, Georgia, 1866-1868, and was a member of the Georgia State Senate from the Second District, 1882-1883. His son Joseph Hampton was a Senator, son Charles Henry was Judge, as was son Thomas Augustus who servd on the Brunswick Circuit and the Waycross Circuit. 36 vii. Jacob PARKER> was born in Georgia. He died of fever in childhood in Georgia. 37 viii. Thomas PARKERwas born in Georgia. He died in Georgia. Died in childhood of fever.