U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Stalnaker, Garretson J. (1857-1949) ------------------------------------------------------------------- The History of Barbour County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time by Hu Maxwell The Acme Publishing Company, Morgantown, W.Va., 1899 Page 462 Garretson J. Stalnaker, born in Randolph County, 1858, son of Granville and Jane (Hilkey) Stalnaker, was married May 25, 1879, to Mary M., daughter of Burr P. and Sally A. (Lake) Newlon. Children, Alman J., Lenora, Baxter B., Oral and Mary P. He is a member of the M. E. Church, a Republican, and a manufacturer of lumber at Belington. He has filled the position of Justice of the Peace. He owns 50 acres near Belington and 45 acres in Randolph County. He has a bayonet plowed up in Belington in 1897. It had probably lain buried since 1861. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Certificate, Barbour County, WV #14027 FULL-NAME: Garrison Stalnaker BIRTH-DATE: June 11, 1857 BIRTH-PLACE: W.Va. DEATH-DATE: November 24, 1949 DEATH-PLACE: Belington (rural), Barbour County, WV MARITAL-STATUS: widowed OCCUPATION: farmer FATHER: Granville Stalnaker MOTHER: Mary Hilkey CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Broncho pneumonia / chronic myocardial degeneration INFORMANT: Lenora Thompson BURIAL: Fraternal Cemetery ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access other biographies for Barbour County, WV by going to the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/wv/barbour/bios.html -------------------------------------------------------------------