Person:Jacob Stalnaker (2)

Notes

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

Jacob Stalnaker, Jr., son of Jacob, Sr., or Jacob 1st, married Eleanor ___?.

He was considerably in evidence in the real estate transfers noted in the Randolph County Records. In a deed dated April 26, 1800, Jacob Stalnaker, Sr., and Eleanor, his wife, sell to Jacob Stalnaker, Jr., for 200 Pounds a tract of land containing 100 acres on the south side of Files’ Creek, (Randolph County, West Virginia, Land Records, Book No. 3 and 4, P. 107)

In a deed dated Feb. 23, 1907 (s/b 1807), Jacob Stalnaker and Eleanor, his wife, sell to Adam Stalnaker a tract of land on Files’ Creek, a branch of the Tygart Valley River, it being a part of a tract that the said Jacob Stalnaker bought of Cornelius Bogard, (Randolph Co., West Virginia, Land Records, Book 3, Page 5)

He died in 1834, for on November 25th of that year the appraisement of the goods and chattles of Jacob Stalnaker, Sr., deceased, as sworn by Andrew Stalnaker, Jr., is noted in Will Book No. 3, p. 10, Randolph Co., Records. He died intestate. His children, as disclosed by the records, were:

Jacob Stalnaker, who married Nancy Channell, daughter of Joseph Channell, January 18, 1803 (Randolph County., Marriages, Licenses.) This couple had, among other children, Andrew Stalnaker, born in 1815, died 1888, who married in Lewis County, Margaret, daughter of Adam Smith. They had issue: Marcellus; Adam; Eunice; Newton; Kain; Mary E.; Hannah; Caroline; Thaddeus; Henry; William; and Margaret.

Mary Stalnaker, who married John Meyers, March 28, 1808. (Randolph Co., Marriage Licenses.)

1.   Bosworth, Albert S. A history of Randolph County, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time. (Elkins, West Virginia?: A.S. Bosworth?, 1916?)
   page 54.

   Which Jacob Stalnaker is this?
   
   A list of wills recorded in Randolph County prior to 1836
   is given below, with the name of the testator and the date
   of record :
   
   
   
   Andrew McMullen 1788
   
   George Ward 1791
   
   David Haddan 1791
   
   Jacob Stalnaker 1791

2. ↑ Jacob Stalnaker Jr., in Find A Grave.