Person:Adam Stalnaker (2)

Military Service

Lt. Adam Stalnaker is mentioned in the Revolutionary War Pension Statement of his brother Samuel Stalnaker, as follows:

Then in March 1781 affiant again volunteered for eight months as a private to spy through the same Counties and Country as above enumerated namely Randolph &c on the waters of Tygarts Valley &c in Virginia State, under the same Captain Bogard, Lieutenant Adam Stalmacker, Ensign John White was stationed at Westfall's Fort (again) on Tygarts Valley River, Monongahalia [sic] County Virginia engaged upon his spiting expeditions was actively engaged during throughout that summer rescuing stolen property, pursuing Indians &c but without affiant or his company with him ever being able to kill any of the Savages.

Notes

From "The Stalnaker Family", written by Knight Wees, published in the Randolph Enterprise, Thursday, August 25th, 1932:

Adam Stalnaker, killed by the Indians in 1782. Randolph County Records did not begin until 1787. Adam Stalnaker’s name does not appear on the records or would not be in histories if it were not for his tragic death. Where or when he was born and where he is buried is not known.

He entered Tygarts Valley with his father and brothers in 1772 and was the father of five children: John, Adam, Andrew, Jacob and Eunice. His youngest son Adam was born 1780, two years before his father’s death. The names, John, Andrew, Jacob, and Adam in so many generations, make it exceedingly difficult for the historian.

Adam, born 1780, son of Adam; killed in 1782. Married Naomi Morgan, 1805. Her sister Ruth, married George Wees. The marriage of these two girls made their descendants related to nearly everyone in Tygarts Valley.

1. ↑ .

   A history of Randolph County, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time
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   Topics Randolph County (W. Va.) -- History, Randolph County (W. Va.) -- Genealogy
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   A band of from twenty to thirty Indians visited the valley in the summer of 1782. They were led by a renegade white man by the name of Timothy Dorman. John Bush and his wife, Jacob Stalnaker and his son. Adam, were ambushed on the old road, as they were crossing a drain, on the old Hoy
   McLean place, about a mile south of Arnold station. Young Stalnaker was shot from his horse and killed, but his father, and Bush and his wife escaped.

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 .

   U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
   
   NameCaptain Samuel StalnakerBirth Date1732
   SAR Membership63847
   RoleAncestor
   Application Date20 Apr 1946
   Children Jacob Stalnaker
   Household Members
   Name Paul Randolph Stainaker
   Name Anna B Cloud
   Name John William Stalnaker
   Name Carolyn Erakine Von Zoll
   Name Randolph Stalnaker
   Name Naomi Morgan
   Name Adam Stalnaker
   Name Adam Stalnaker II
   Name Elizabeth Truly
   Name Jacob Stalnaker
   Name Captain Samuel Stalnaker