Elijah Stalls

Elijah Stalls Headstone

Stalls Cemetery

Elijah Stalls was born on 29 May 1811 in North Carolina. He was the son of James Stalls and Annie Page. Elijah married Edna Barrow in 1827. She was born on 15 Sept 1808. She was born in Stewart county, TN. It appears throughout the census years of 1850 - 1870 that there was a women named Mary Robbins who lived and worked for the Stalls as a domestic servant. Edna died on 6 Sept 1876 and Elijah died on 5 Nov 1876. They are both buried in the Stalls cemetery in the Land Between the Lakes area in Stewart county, TN.

Elijah and Edna had the following children.

1. Mary (Polly) Stalls. b: 27 Nov 1828 in Stewart county, TN. m: Wade Cherry on 4 Oct 1852. Had the following children:

i. Margaret Etna Cherry

ii. Elijah Wade Cherry

iii. Ambus Harrison Cherry

iv. George Forest Cherry

v. Mary Ann Cherry

2. James M. L. Stalls. b: 22 May 1831 in Stewart county, TN. m: Georgia Anna Manning (the sister of my great great grandmother Mary Jane Manning) on 27 Sept 1851. d: 30 April 1912 in Memphis TN.

3. Margaret (Betty) Stalls. b: 1836 in Stewart county, TN. m: C. C. Thomison on 21 Dec 1865.

4. George Stalls. b: 1839 in Stewart county, TN. m: Carline Campbell on 28 Oct 1869.

5. Elizabeth Stalls. b: 1843 in Stewart county, TN. m: C. C. Thomison on 21 Dec 1865.

6. William F. Stalls. b: 18 Nov 1843 in Stewart county, TN. d: 22 Jan 1888 in Stewart county, TN. Buried at the Stalls cemetery in the Land Between the Lakes area in Stewart county, TN.