UNION BAPTIST ASSOCIATION MINUTES, 1848 state that Elder H. Stallings. is the pastor of Island Creek Baptist Church. (He has been pastor for

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1 UNION BAPTIST ASSOCIATION MINUTES, 1848 state that Elder H. Stallings is the pastor of Island Creek Baptist Church. (He has been pastor for many years of Island Creek.) The 1849 minutes state that the Island Creek pastor is dead. This is found on page 20 of the 1849 minutes.

2 Ml.'lli\CK STJ\LLI GS: J\lso lived in till' roc:j...fish sec ti on :ind w:1s :1 hrothl'r of Shadrach Stallings. Rockfish. l.11. lie, too, was a Hcvo lut ion:.ir)' :-.olclcr and opl'ratcd :1 mi 11 He was also a hatter anj probably a merchant. llis wife's namt' w:1, Winifred but her full maiden name is at present unj...nown. Their chi 1 drcn \vc l'l' as follows: (1) Shadrack Stallings. (2) llugh Stallings. (3) Wiley Stallings, m. Susanna Murphy, dau. of Timothy Murphy. They had a son, William Walker Stallings. (4) Rhoda Stallings, m. John Buxton. (5) Winifred Stallings, m. Boney. (6) Alice Stallings. They Jwd a son,.john Buxton. They had a daughter, Margaret C. Boney. (7) Clary Stallings. Mary Sandlin of Limestone section. (8) Reverend Hiram Stallings, m. Ile has been descri bee! as a scholarly Bapt i :-; t minister in Duplin Co., and preached at Island Creek, ll:.111 vil k for many years. and else when An old letter dated <luring the eighteen-thirties is ~cl<lressed to him as "Rev. Hiram Stallings D. D.", at llallsville, postoffice. REVEREND JOHN NICHOLAS STALLINGS, n.d., son of Mary (S:.1ndlin) and Rev. lliram Stallings, was born at lfallsvillc, Feb. 10, J\fter completin g his cduc:1 - tion at the State University he studied law and was liccnsl'<l to practice thl' profession in 1857, and located at Kenansville. He was electej County Solicit111 at April term, 1857, and of the nuplin Co., Court, for a term of four years :111d at times served as Solicitor in the State Court in the absence of the rcgul :1r Solicitor. In Nov. 1860, he was ordained as ::i minister in the Baptist Church and for many years he \vas both a lawyer and a minister. J\t the close of thl' Civil War he organized and directed :rn organi.:.ation called Local Police. lts purpose was to keep order and put down :my trouble that might ari sc out 1..>f t l\c' freedom of the slaves. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1~ 7'.,. He was also a teacher for m:my ye:ns and t:1ught at M:1gnolia, \\',ns:n,, and Clinton. Also, he was the founder :md editor of t,~o or more new sp:1 pcrs, including ont' called "The C~1Ucasin 11 About 1RS4 he gave up the pr:1ctice of 1:11, and clc\ ott'd his time to the ministry :ind educ:1tjonal work. J\hout the year l,,l> he mm l'd frn111 his native section and assumed the Presitlcnce of ThomasYille Fcm:1le College :1\ Thomasville, where he servc'd for :i number of years, and at the s:1mc time SC'l'VC'd as pastor for a number of churches in the Piedmont section. conferred by Rutherford Collt~c :1hout 1S89. llis n.n. <ll'p't' l' " :,. For cightl't' n )'l':1rs, or lon~er ht was ~lodcrator of the South Y:idJ...in B:1ptist Association :ind org:ini::l'j m:111y churches in that section. In Salisbury, where he l:1ho1 ed for m:rn~ Yt':1rs, :1 handsome new church, "Sta 11 i ng s lcmori :1 l Hapt i st Church", ))l'1'!1l' t u:it t's his 11 :11:1('. Doctor Stallings dietl Feb. 2, 1913 in t he eighty-fi1 s t yc:11 of his.i~t'. Dr. Stallings' wift' was l:li; :1lwth llou s ton, ll:iu. nf I li :-:llwth and S:imuc 1 lions ton. Tht'Y "'t' l'l' 111:11T i l' d on ~l:l n h 9, 1S;, S, hy l~l'\.. nn ( \\'i H.in.1111).1-w s I.."j' 1Ill\ 1 fl. P..

3 ,JOIIN NJ CIIOLAS STALLJ Nc;s who had been their instructor in their early school <lay s. They were bnpti :z. ed on the first Sunday in June 1858, and became active and useful members of the Kenansville Baptist Church which church he served for many years as pastor. Mt g, Stallings was a sister of Capt. William J, Houston who lost his life in the service of the Confederacy. Portraits of both Capt. llouston nnd Doctor Stallinp are in the County Courtroom as testimonials of their great usefulness. The children of Elizabeth Ann (Houston) and Doctor Stal lings were as follows: (1) Catherine Stallings, m. T. N. Woodruff of Charlottesville, Va, (2) Mnry Stallings, d. unmarried in Salisbury, N. C. (3) Annie Stallings, m. Dr. D. A. Gray, Little Rock, Ark. (4) Frank Irene Stallings, m. Dr. W. A. Lambeth of the University of Va. at Charlottesville. (S) William lliram Stallings, <l. in infancy at Kenansville. (6) John Nicholas Stallings, m. Bessie Lytton. Eugene Stallings, d. unmarried. (2) Sadie Kreider. (7) (8)Dr. Robert E. Stallings, m. (1) Eva Jones He was Stnte Chemist of Georgia at the dime of his death (9) Elizabeth Houston Stallings, unmnrried. i11 She is Register of the Department of Physical Education, University of Virginia. The above is a copy of an article thnt appeared in tl1e Kenansville, Duplin Co., N. C. paper Thursday, June 24, 1937.

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