Berniece T. Hiser

Berniece Iona Terry Hiser, Kentucky writer and teacher, was born in 1908 in Cow Creek, Kentucky, to Wilson Edgar Terry and Ruse Wilder. After graduating from Berea College she taught school in Kentucky and Indiana. She lived in Walton, Kentucky, for many years before her death in 1995. She was buried in Pleasant View Cemetery, beside Pleasant View Church, in Grant County, Kentucky. Her husband Ora Hiser, who died in 1999, was later buried beside her.

Hiser compiled "Quare Do's in Appalachia: East Kentucky Legends and Memorats" (Pikeville, Kentucky: Pikeville College Press, 1978), a collection of folktales, ghost stories, and tales she collected, many of which involve members of her family. Among the latter is the tale of how her grandmother Sally Wilder Frost was named by Col. John Hunt Morgan.

She also wrote a children's book, set in Kentucky during the American Civil War, "The Adventure of Charlie and His Wheat-straw Hat: A Memorat" illustrated by Mary Szilagyi (New York : Dodd, Mead, 1986).