The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume ll.,
pg.110

    Floyd D. Stollings, who has been a prominent and influential figure in
connection with the timber business in West Virginia and also in the handling
of coal lands, has the distinction of maintaining his home in a town that
was named in his honor, the attractive village of Stollings, Logan County.
He was born near Chapmanville, this county in January. 1853 and is a son of
Nelson and Lurania(Workman) Stollings, the former of whom likewise was born
near Chapmanville and the later of whom was in Boone County, where her death
occurred in 1890 and where her husband died in 1900, at the venerable age of
eighty-four years. Josiah Stollings, grandfather of the subject of this review,
owned large tracts of land near Chapmanville, and was one of the representative
pioneers of Logan County. The Stollings came from North Carolina and were
numbered among the first settlers in the Guyan valley in what is now West
Virginia.  Abraham Workman, maternal grandfather of Mr. Stollings likewise
came to this section in an early day, his former home having been in North
Carolina, near the Virginia line.
    Nelson Stolling finally established his home on a farm in Boone County,
about midway between Chapmanville and Madison, and he met with heavy property
and financial losses at the time of the Civil War. He became a mail contractor
and transported the mail from Logan to Charleston and also between Logan and
Wayne, besides which he established a postoffice at Tracefork, a village now
known as Manila, in Boone County.After the close of the war Nelson Stollings
as prosperous in his activities as a farmer, trader and mail contractor. He
was born in the year 1816 and his wife in 1821, both having been earnest
members of the Missionary Baptist Church and his political allegiance having
been given to the democratic party. Of their seven children Floyd D., of this
sketch, is the only one now living. The oldest son, Thomas B. though under
the age at the time, enlisted for services as a confederate soldier in the
Civil War.
    Floyd D. Stollings gains his early education in the schools of Logan and
Boone Counties, and his initial work of independent order was the service
which he gave as postmaster at Tracefork. From 1874 to 1876 inclusive, he
was in the panhandle district of Texas, and upon his return to West Virginia
he engaged in the mercantile business in Boone County. He next turned his
attention to the timber industry and instituted operation of Twelve Pole
Creek and Guyandot River. He first bought popular and walnut timber, which
he would raft down to the Ohio River, down which stream the fleet of logs
were towed by boats to market points. In his operation, which became of
large scope, he maintained his headquarters at Catlettsburg, Kentucky,
which was the headquarters for all of the old timber men operating on the
Twelve Pole and Guyandot rivers. Mr. Stollings has bought and sold many
thousand acres of timber and coal lands, has cut the timber from much land
that he later sold to coal operators, and among his purchases was 500
acres where the village of Stollings is now situated, this town having
been founded in 1900, which was named in his honor and to the development
of which he has contributed in general measure, he having established his
home after many years' residence in Boone County. He is a democrat in
political allegiance and his wife is a member of the Christian Church.
    The year 1873 recorded the marriage of Mr. Stollings and Miss Luella
Stone, daughter of the late William N. Stone of Boone County. Of this
union were born five sons and five daughters, two of the sons being
deceased.