Linda, Thank You! The Manuscript you mention is a great help.  I am directly related to Captain Jacob WESTFALL Sr. and I am interested in any tidbit about Fort Westfall. > I read your message about Samuel Stalnaker. I have no Stalnaker ancestors > myself but Jacob and family lived in the vicinity of my Cassitys and so are > mentioned in an interview with one of them included in the Draper > Manuscripts. I'd like to know if you can give a date for the death of Adam > Stalnaker in the following. Thanks. Adam was lived from 1760 to 1782. > Linda Cassidy Lewis > > Old Jacob Stallnicker and Adam his son lived in Jacob Westfall's fort.  Adam > had been to Col. Ben Wilson's mill and was returning, he and his father. > They had gotten their flour and were returning home.  The Indians fired and > killed Adam.  His father escaped on his horse.  Old man, I think, said he > saw but two Indians.  I saw the tree that Adam fell against, the blood was > there a long time.  And I saw him after he was scalped and nobody ever would > have known him.  He had been as  pretty a man as you would see in a month. > But his face was now all sunk away to be not wider than your hand. > > John White lived at Jacob Westfall's fort.  Killed by the Indians in the > neighborhood of Jacob Westfall's fort.  Had married Adam Stallnicker's > sister Katy.  Adam helped to dig the grave.  John White had gone up to the > upper part of the valley on business.  Adam Stallnicker helped  make a > coffin, which they sent up to bring White down in when he was killed, and > while it was gone, he helped dig the grave in which White was to be buried. > It was in the middle of summer.  They found him so black and mortified they > couldn't bring him and so brought back the coffin.  Not long after, Adam > Stallnicker was put in the same coffin and interred in the same grave which > himself had prepared. Now I have a question.  There are two Adam STALNAKERs.  Jacob STALNAKER had a Brother named Adam. I have recorded that he was killed by Indians in 1756.  Do you have any record of him? Where did you find this passage?  Do you have a copy of the Draper Manuscripts? Jay