Jacob Hunter Hiers
Jacob Hunter Hiers appears in household 144 of the 1900 Barney census as the head. Open the household dossier.
Family and settler connections
William Alderman
Path: William Alderman → Mary ‘Polly’ Alderman Hiers → Jacob Hunter Hiers
Grade: Secondary Supported
Evidence: Jacob's death certificate and marriage/census chain identify the Hiers family and an Alderman mother.
Open issue: An original parent-naming record for Mary > William remains preferred.
Evidence grades
- Census- or vital-record supported: recent parent-child steps are named or placed in compatible households by census, marriage, death, or comparable records.
- Secondary-supported: a compiled genealogy supplies one or more early generations while local records independently establish the people involved.
- Strong probable: the relationship is well supported, but one part of the settler claim still lacks direct settlement-era proof.
Each generation is judged separately. Marriage, surname, proximity, or a shared household does not by itself establish descent.