Person:Eleanor Stalnaker (1)

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Name Eleanor Stalnaker
Gender Female
Marriage to Jehu Harper
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    From "The Stalnaker Family", written by Knight Wees, published in the Randolph Enterprise, Thursday, August 25th, 1932:


    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.
    Adam Stalnaker married Naomi Morgan, was the daughter Zedekiah Morgan and Ruth Dart, his wife. Both her parents were of distinguished Connecticut families. Her brothers’ and sisters’ names were Joshua, Ezra, Hezekiah, Lydia, and Ruth.
    Five years after the death of her husband, Adam Stalnaker, "Naomi Stalnaker (widow) married John Brooks, October 10, 1820." (Randolph County Marriage Licenses.) She died in Randolph County in 1837. (Family Records.)
    The children of Adam Stalnaker and Naomi Morgan, his wife, married as follows, according to the Stalnaker Family Records and Maxwell’s History of Randolph County.
    Eleanor Stalnaker married Jehu Harper.
    Daniel H. Stalnaker, who married Miss Sara Wylie of Greenbrier county, May 1st, 1839. (Greenbrier Co., Marriage Licenses.)
    Maria Stalnaker married Isaac Baker of Randolph county, and their son, Daniel Randolph Baker’s heir now owns the old home on the hill built by the pioneer, Jacob Stalnaker.
    Randolph Stalnaker, born January 17, 1808, on Files’ Creek; died in 1895; married in Monroe Co., in 1830, :Caroline Erskine Zoll, daughter of William Zoll and Jane Smith, his wife, who was the daughter of William Zoll and Jane Smith, his wife, who was the daughter of James Smith and Flora (Erskine) Smith, (Family Records.)