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BUCKALEW, MARION ROBY, son of William and Julia (Hart) Buckalew. "Buckalew is the name of an old American Colonial family familiar in several Southern states for many generations and not altogether unknown in the North, where on great state contributed a Buckalew to the National Congress for years and later sent a Buckalew to represent the United States in the court of a foreign land. The Buckalews of Alabama trace an unbroken ancestral line to that branch of the family that was long established in South Carolina, coming from there to Georgia and thence to Alabama, and to that branch belongs Marion Roby Buckalew, cashier of the Roanoke Banking Co. at Roanoke, AL.
"Marion Roby Buckalew was born in March, 1875, on a farm near Lafayette, in Chambers Co., AL, son of William Dorsey and Julia (Hart)Buckalew. The father of Mr. Buckalew followed agricultural pursuits in Chambers Co., where he was a man of sound reputation, a member of the Masonic fraternity and supporter of the Baptist Church. During the war between the states he was connected with the Confederate mail service. His death occurred in 1885, at the comparatively early age, as life terms are now reckoned, of fifty-six years. The mother of Mr. Buckalew was seventy years old at the time of her death, in 1896.
"But ten years old when he lost his father, Mr. Buckalew was doubly dependent upon his mother's care and guidance during his boyhood and school period, and he remained with her on the home until he was twenty-one years old. For one year afterward he served as a clerk in the country store of R. J. Combs & Co., near Lafayette, during which time he found himself well adapted for business, particularly along the lines requiring care, judgment and accuracy, and then followed a course in a business college at Lexington, KY.
"With this preparation alone Mr. Buckalew entered the employ of the Bank of Lafayette, with which institution he continued for ten years. During six years of this period he not only filled a position of trust and responsibility in the bank, but served also as treasurer of Chambers County. In 1906, when the Chambers Co. Bank was organized, he was made its first cashier. In 1918 he came to Roanoke as cashier of the Roanoke Banking Co., a position he has filled with extreme efficiency ever since. Mr. Buckalew's reputation for business sagacity has brought him many tenders of official relationship from important commercial bodies here and elsewhere, but he has mainly restricted his energies to the large and growing business of the Roanoke Banking Co. He is, however, secretary of the Roanoke Guano Go., and is manager of the Roanoke Warehouse Co.
"Mr. Buckalew married at Lafayette, AL, October 21, 1901, Miss Julia Moore, daughter of Anderson D. Moore, a prominent citizen and retired farmer of Jacksonville, AL. They have seven children: Vardaman, who is connected with the department of public accounts at Mobile, AL; Marion Roby, who is connected with the Fourth National Bank, Atlanta, GA; William D., who is a cadet in the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md, under appointment of Congressman Bowling; and Juliette, Walker, Edwin and Frances, who are in school. Mr. and Mrs. Buckalew are active members of the Baptist Church at Roanoke, in which he is a deacon. Mrs. Buckalew is interested also in social life and belongs to musical and cultural clubs.
"Mr. Buckalew is a past president of the Roanoke Chambers of Commerce, was the first president of the Exchange Club, and is identified with other organizations, being particularly interested in athletics. During the World War he took an active interest in all the local patriotic movements and was officially connected with the Liberty Loan campaigns.
Source: History of Alabama and Her People, "Vol.3; The American Historical Society, Inc.; Chicago and NY; 1927; "Alabama Biography by Special Staff of Writers." Submitted by Christine Walters
BUCKALEW, WILLIAM DORSEY, husband of Julia Ann Hart, William D. Buckalew, born in Edgefield, SC, in 1795, immigrated to Chambers County, Alabama in 1830. Immigrating with the Bucklews were the families of Johns, Harts, Daniels, Grays and Culbreaths. The Buckalews settled in the Chambers County area known as Buckalew Mountains. (The significance of the Mountains may have been lost when Chambers County Lake was formed.) On December 13, 1852, William Dorsey Buckalew married Julia Ann Hart in Chambers County.
Their children were: William T., born July 23, 1855, in Cusseta, AL.; married Carrie Daniel April 8, 1880. A physician, he died in Blooming Grove, TX in 1925. Robert J., born January 6, 1859, in Cusseta, AL.; married Lilla Hart Dinkins January 12, 1888. Sallie, born January 1, 1861, in Cusseta, AL; married Thomas Jack, May 8, 1890. Mamie, born May 2, 1865, in Cusseta, AL; married John Willliams on January 14, 1893. Seaborn J., born February 3, 1868, in Cusseta, AL; married Edna Rice, February 1909, in Grapevine TX. An engineer, he graduated from Auburn and played on Auburn's first football team. Benjamin F., born October 23, 1872, in Cusseta, AL; married Harriet Whitaker on October 29, 1902. Marion Roby, born March 12, 1875, in Cusseta, AL; married Julia Ann Moore on October 23, 1901, in Lafayette, AL. Eva, born June 1877, in Cusseta, AL; married John T. Hart.
William Dorsey Buckalew followed agricultural pursuits in Chambers County; he was a man of sound reputation, a member of the Masonic fraternity and supporter of the Baptist church. During the War between the States he was connected with the Confederate mail service. He died in 1885.
Roby, the youngest of the five sons of William D. and Julia Ann Hart Buckalew, was only ten years old at the time of his father's death. He remained on the home farm until he was 21 years old. For one year afterward he served as a clerk in the country store of R.J. Combs and Co., near Lafayette. During this time he found himself well adapted for business, particularly along the lines requiring care, judgement, and accuracy, and then followed a course in business college at Lexington, KY. With this preparation Roby entered the employ of the Bank of Lafayette, with which he continued for ten years. During six years of this period he not only filled a position of trust and responsibility in the bank, but served also as Treasurer of Chambers County. In 1906, when the Chambers County Bank was organized in Lafayette, he was made its first Cashier.
Roby was active in civic, school, and church affairs. He served as Treasurer of the Lafayette unit of Sons of Confederate Veterans. He was a deacon and Church Treasurer of the First Baptist Church of Lafayette. In 1918 he moved to Roanoke, Alabama, to accept the prestigious position of Cashier of the Roanoke Banking Company, at that time the largest bank in East Alabama.
On October 23, 1901, Roby married Julia Ann Moore, daughter of Anderson D. and Nancy Walker Moore, in Lafayette, Alabama. Julia Ann was born in Lafayette on May 23, 1879. Julia Ann died in Roanoke on June 13, 1938, and is buried in West View Cemetery, Lafayette, Chambers County. Marion Roby Buckalew died December 13, 1940, in Roanoke, and is buried next to Julia in West View Cemetery.
Marion Roby and Julia Ann Moore Buckalew had seven children. The first six were born in Lafayette, Chambers County. The youngest was born in Roanoke, Randolph County. The children were: Vardaman Moore, born October 21, 1902; died in 1982, Mrion Roby, Jr., born July 6, 1905; resides at Merritts Island, FL. William Dorsey, born February 27, 1907; died in 1973. Juliette Ann Buckalew Forbes, born January 9, 1909; died in 1997. Meriwether Walker, born November 3, 1911; resides in Wilmington, DE. John Edwin, born August 18, 1918; resides in Van Buren, AR. Frances Pope Buckalew Henry, born March 21, 1921; resides in Bainbridge, GA.
Source: The Heritage of Chambers Co AL Page 86. Submitted by Christine Walters
