Hardesty's History of Calhoun County, West Virginia

SALATHIEL STUMP

     Salathiel Stump owns and successfully conducts a saw and grist 
mill near Brooksville, a generous and hospitable man, a kind neighbor 
and a useful citizen. He was born January 23, 1832, in that part of 
Lewis County, Virginia, now included in Gilmer County, West Virginia. 
In the same section of country, on the Little Kanawha, October 23, 
1882, was born Permilia Ann Stalnaker, who became the wife of 
Salathiel Stump in DeKalb, a town of the county of their birth, the 
date of their marriage, November 7, 1850. 
     Their ten children were born: Waynefield L., October 18, 1850; 
Mason W., January 31, 1854; Austin S., February 26, 1856; Bailey W., 
August 26, 1858; Aurelia Blanche, November 3, 1862; Scorpio L., June 
29, 1865; Laura E. J., February 26, 1868; Levi K., May 4, 1870; Okey 
J., January 17, 1873; Jacob E., July 28, 1876. Okey J. and Bailey W. 
are deceased; Waynesfield L. lives in Gilmer County, and the other 
children in Calhoun County. Jacob and Jane Stump were the parents of 
Salathiel Stump, and his wife was a daughter of Salathiel and Frances 
Stalnaker. Salathiel Stump's postoffice address is Big Bend. 

(Linda Fluharty)