The second Nicholas Stallings, born about 1656 and married to Ann _____, had a son Joseph, born about 1697. This is probably the Joseph Stallings of Nansemond County who witnessed a land transaction in 1716, patented land in 1732, and is recorded in many land Processionings along with his son, Joseph, Jr. and members of the Reddick family, his neighbors. Several other Stallings are mentioned with Joseph in land records of about the same time period: Lott who bought land in 1721; James who sold land to Joseph in 1731; John and William were witnesses to the 1747 land Processioning.

       Hardy Stallings (c. 1755-1821), the fourth generation, was married to Hepzibah Perry by 1775 when her father, Jacob Perry, mentioned her as Hepzibah Stallings in his Martin County, North Carolina will. Their children were Cannah, Penny, Jesse, Sarah (Leggitt), Milley (deceased by 1813), Abrilla (Robason), Mary (Mizles), and Naomi (Woodward).

       Their son, Jesse Stallings (c. 1775-after 1850) married Lydia __________. They also made their home in Martin County where 13 children were born to them between 1798 and 1816: Priscilla, Sarah, Asa, Humphrey, Irving, Catherine, Hardy, Lydia, Stenice, Hebbie, Jesse, Louie, and Lott. There many have been others.

       Humphrey Stallings was born on October 24, 1801, in Martin County, North Carolina. He was a preacher at the Smithwick's Creek Primitive Baptist Church until he moved to Dyer County (now Crockett), Tennessee. He married twice. We do not know the name of his first wife, but the second was Cynthia Robertson . Some of his children may have been from the first marriage. All were all born in North Carolina before the family moved to Tennessee. They were William H., John Alfred, Sallie, Bryant B., Lawrence P., Edwin G., William Bryant, Jesse Hyman, Lott M.(or Gilbert), Lydia Ann, and Laura.

Their daughter, (Lydia) Ann Stallings, was 29 years old when she married William B. Nash , a widower with three children. He had just returned from the West, a Confederate who had joined the Union Army (becoming a "Galvanized Yankee") to gain his freedom from prison and possible death. Ann had little time to accustom herself to being a mother to William's children before she began having babies of her own. She gave birth to seven children in the 13 years between 1867 and 1880 and lost five. Only Albert and Beulah lived to be more than six years old. She survived her husband by four years, dying August 1, 1913. Her grave has not been located.