Another day, another cemetery. This one was the Old Harmony cemetery on Hacker’s Creek. Great-grandfather Otto deGruyter didn’t get here until the 1870s, and Jane Hill, his wife, was mostly descended from Scots-Irish and Germans who came north from southwest Virginia, but almost everyone else on both my mother’s and father’s sides was living somewhere along Hacker’s Creek in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Hacker’s Creek, along with settlements in Randolph County, on Decker’s Creek in Morgantown, and in the Clarksburg area, were the first settlements this side of the mountains.
Most of the old stones were slate or soft sandstone, and are gone or unreadable. Descendants have put up new monuments for some. Mary Elizabeth, known as Eliza, wife of Samuel Bonnett, and whose maiden name is so far unknown, was the first person buried here, when it was the churchyard of the original church. She was my sixth great-grandmother. Samuel was killed by a falling tree in 1789, and probably buried on his own property.
Samuel and Elizabeth’s daughter, Margaret, married Johannes Waggoner. She was killed in a Shawnee raid on Jesse’s Run, within sight of the cemetery, in May 1792.
Their son, Peter, was taken by the Shawnee, grew up with them in Ohio, and was married with children before he returned to Hacker’s Creek in 1812. He married Catherine Hardman Hyde, a widow, and they are my fourth great-grandparents.
Catherine’s parents were Peter Hardman (Hartmann) and Charlotte Lazier, my fifth great-grandparents, born in Germany and died on Hacker’s Creek. 
Egad, Sire, Truly 
Mary Elizabeth, known as Eliza, wife of Samuel Bonnett, and whose maiden name is so far unknown, was the first person buried here, when it was the churchyard of the original church.
Lorentz was Mary Elizabeth’s maiden name.
Brenda – Do you have a source for Eliza being a Lorentz? There is a will for John Lorentz, 1817, that includes a daughter Elizabeth Bonnett. Her son Henry married Elizabeth Lorentz, and I think there was a belief that Samuel’s wife Mary Elizabeth was a Lorentz because of John Lorentz’s Hardy Co. will, 1817, which included his daughter Elizabeth Bonnett. I certainly had her that way in my files for some time. That John Lorentz would have been Samuel and Elizabeth’s generation, not their parent’s generation, and Eliza would have been a Mack for almost 30 years by the time of John’s will.
I’d be glad for any further information on Mary Elizabeth.
LORENTZ IS RECORDED IN bOOK bONNETT & kIN
Hi! Johannes is my 4x great grandfather with his second wife, Susannah Richards, I’d love to swap info if you;re interested. Thanks in advance! Diana