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, William Wallis (1827-1913) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Pages 458 and 461 William Wallis Stalnaker, born in what is now Barbour, 1827, son of Samuel and Isabel (Ryan) Stalnaker, was married in Taylor County, April 29, 1852, to Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah (Haymond) Lewellen. Children, Adolphus Waitman, Sarah Olive and William Henry. He is a Methodist, a Republican and a farmer, living on Teter's Creek, where he owns 263 acres, nearly all cleared; and in partnership with his son, William H., he owns 650 acres, including land on which his grandfather, William Stalnaker, settled when he moved from Beverly to this vicinity. They are engaged in general farming and stockraising, cutting fifty stacks of hay, handling over 100 cattle and from fifty to seventy-five sheep a year. The land is underlaid with coal and also contains a deposit of potter's clay, which was worked for some years by Burley & Bennett on Teter's Creek. His son Adolphus moved to Texas in 1877 and married, December 6, 1882, Sarah 0. Marsh, of Texas, and has been successfully engaged in stockraising and owns 1160 acres, under wire fence. He and his brother, William H., and their sister, Mrs. Sarah Cole, own 640 acres on Red River, a gift from their father. His daughter, Sarah C, married Andrew Cole, a successful farmer of Pleasant Creek, Barbour County; and William H. married Alice, daughter of Colonel Truman T. Elliott of Belington. She died July 5, 1897, leaving two children, Lena Gladys and Hugh Elliott. ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Death Register, Barbour County, WV (year 1913, page 207, Line Numbered 39 FULL-NAME: Wm. Stalnaker DEATH-DATE: June 10, 1913 at age 86 DEATH-PLACE: Nestorville MARITAL-STATUS: Widower OCCUPATION: Farmer CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Paralysis (William's wife, Elizabeth) From Death Register, Barbour County, WV (Page 115, Line Numbered 27 FULL-NAME: Elizabeth Stalkaker BIRTH-DATE: April 5, 1833 DEATH-DATE: July 23, 1903 at age 71-years DEATH-PLACE: Nestorville MARITAL-STATUS: Consort OCCUPATION: Housewife FATHER: John MOTHER: Sarah CAUSE-OF-DEATH: Stomach Trouble ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------