Mary Ann Hacker's father John Turner Hacker, Sr. was born Jan. 1, 1743 in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, and died Apr. 20, 1824 in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. John was one of five known children born to William Hacker (1690 - 1772) and Ann Turner Dillon Hacker (1707 - 1772). His siblings were: William Hacker, born 1739; Elizabeth Hacker, born ca. 1741, married John Freeman; Nancy Ann Hacker, born ca 1745, married James Keith & Col. Claypool; and Mary Polly Hacker born 1747, married John Bush. John married Margaret Ann Sleeth in 1765 in Loudon Co., VA. She was the daughter of John and Mary (Wallace) Sleeth. They were the parents of eleven children: Mary Ann Hacker, born ca. 1768, married Edmund West, Jr; William Hacker, born 1770, married Adah West; Jonathan Daniel Hacker, b ca 1772, married Hannah Bennet; John Turner Hacker Jr., born 1773, married Mary Susannah Smith; Sarah Hacker Married married David Smith; Margaret Hacker born 1776, married Peter Hardman; Alexander Hacker; Elizabeth Hacker born 1784, married Henry Hardman; Absolam Hacker; Thomas S. Hacker; and Mary Ann Hacker born 1793, married John Helmick. Two of these daughters, Mary Ann Hacker West and Margaret Hacker Hardman, were slain and scalped by indians. When John moved and located his family on Hacker's Creek in 1769, he brought his parents with him and took care of them until they died; the father in 1772 aged 92 years and the mother in 1778. This family was the first family to live on Hacker's Creek, and their second child, William, was the first white child born there. John served "under the command of Captain James Booth who commanded a Company of Militia in defense of that part of the Western frontier of West Augusta which now comprises the Counties of Harrison and Lewis. He served two long years (1782-1784) with George Rogers Clark on his campaign against the British at Kaskaskia and Vincennes. He served at various times as a magistrate and sheriff. He was appointed by the Harrison County court, together with John Waggoner and Jacob Cozad, to represent the county at the Greenville Treaty in 1795. John's Will was written, signed and witnessed in Lewis Co., VA on 18 March 1822, and it lists all eleven of his children. John Hacker was buried in Morrison Cemetery, Berlin, Lewis County, West Virginia.
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