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Chambers County Alabama
Biographies

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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
JONES, REV. SAMUEL
P.,
of Cartersville, Bartow county, Ga., son of Capt. John J. and Mrs.
Queeny (Porter) Jones, was born in Chambers county, Ala., Oct 16, 1847.
His paternal grandfather, Rev. Samuel G. Jones, was a Methodist
preacher, who married a daughter of Rev. Robert L. Edwards, one of the
pioneer Methodist preachers of Georgia. Four of the brothers of Mr.
Jones' father are ministers of the Gospel, and for several generations
the family on both sides have been prominent church members and
preachers of the Word. When only nine years old Mr. Jones had the
misfortune to lose his mother. Four years afterward his father married
Miss Jennie Skinner of Cartersville, to which place he moved his family
in 1859. In 1861 his father entered the Confederate army, and by reason
of his absence and the disordered state of society, his son drifted into
the company of the immoral and dissipated. Surrounded by and associating
with this class, he found himself at the age of twenty-one, physically
and morally wrecked and ruined. Until his mother died he had been a
pupil under Prof W. F. Slaton, now the superintendent of the public
schools of Atlanta. Here the groundwork of an education had been
faithfully laid. During his father's absence he had neglected his
studies, but soon after his return he entered the school of Hon. W. H.
Felton, and later attended the high school at Euharlee, of which Prof.
Ronald Johnson was the principal. Here his health broke down, which
prevented his taking the collegiate course his father had intended for
him. It was at this period he mistakenly sought relief in drinking. He
also at this time commenced reading law and after due preparation was
admitted to the bar. He, however, continued his life of dissipation
until August, 1872, when, -on his death-bed. his father extorted from
him a solemn promise to reform and meet him in heaven. He kept his
promise and soon after his conversion began to preach the Gospel. The
first sermon he preached was the week after his conversion at the old
New Hope church two miles from Cartersville. He went there with his
grandfather Jones, who was the pastor of the Bartow circuit, and the
Rev. Sandford, who was to have preached, failing to keep his
appointment, his grandfather prevailed upon him to preach. He now began
to preach, and under the direction of Rev. George R. Kramer, began to
prepare himself for the ministry. Three months afterward he applied for
admission, was accepted and received into the North Georgia annual
conference and entered upon the arduous duties of the itinerant
Methodist preacher. His first appointment was on the Van Wert circuit,
where he preached acceptably three years. His next appointment was on
the De Soto ^circuit, with seven churches, in Floyd county, Ga., where
he was unusually successful. From here he was sent to Newborn circuit,
Newton county, Ga., where he remained two years, and where he was
blessed with greater success than ever before. His next appointment was
on the Monticello circuit, Jasper county, Ga., where he also served two
years. During these and the three preceding years he had been
instrumental, under God, in converting 2,000 people and adding them to
the membership of his churches, besides doing a great deal of revival
work in other circuits. In the first eight years of his ministry he was
instrumental in converting 5,000 people, and preached not less than 400
sermons, a year. His first revival work that gave him any notoriety was
in 1879-80. In January, 1881, he was appointed agent for the orphan's
home of the North Georgia conference at Decatur, and doing revival work
in Atlanta, Griffin, Macon, Columbus and Savannah. This work engaged him
during 1881-82. His first revival work in Atlanta was at the First
Methodist church, when General Evans was pastor. This was followed by
work at St. Luke's in Columbus, St. John's in Augusta, Trinity and
Monumental churches in Savannah, Mulberry Street in Macon, and at all
the leading Methodist churches in Georgia. The first revival services
which gave him newspaper notoriety were in Memphis, Tenn., in January,
1883. Since that time he has worked in more than twenty states,
including the cities of Brooklyn, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago,
Baltimore, Washington, D. C, Indianapolis, St. Joseph, Mo., Waco, Tex.,
Mobile, Ala., Nashville and Knoxville, Tenn., and in Toronto and other
cities in Canada. In no place where he has preached have the buildings
or tents been large enough to hold the people. He has preached to
congregations numbering 10,000 people, and at Plattsburg, Mo., he had an
audience of 20,000. At his revival in Chicago, the Inter-Ocean, and
Tribune, in Cincinnati the Commercial Gazette, and Inquirer, and in St.
Louis the Globe-Democrat, having an aggregate circulation of 300,000,
printed his daily sermons. Through the columns of these widely
.circulated journals, he enjoyed the privilege of preaching to a million
and a half persons every day. His first preaching, he says, was called
"earnest exhortation," which, he claims, cannot be feigned,—and he
contends that that which did so much for him will do as much for others.
He has always had an inborn hatred for shams, and especially for
religious shams. He says he would prefer to be an Ingersoll, and a
disbeliever in the Book than to be a Methodist, professedly believing
everything and yet being just like Ingersoll. In the fourth year of his
ministry he began to preach to his people just as he thought, convinced
that the preacher who fits the most consciences will get the most
hearers—just as the shoemaker who makes the best fit will get the most
customers. In preaching at the consciences he says there are three
essential requisites—clearness, concentration and directness—and that
when the conscience is aroused the alternative is left, of a better life
or complete abandonment. When he first began to preach he was brought
face to face with the fact that to succeed as a preacher one must either
be a great thinker or a great worker—and after prayerful consideration
he chose the latter. During the first eight years of his ministry he
preached not less than 400 sermons a year, week after week, preaching
oftentimes four sermons a day. He has never attempted to prove that
there was a God—that Christ was divine—or that there was a heaven or
hell. He made these things not an objective point, but a starting
point—his idea being that Christ meant what he said in the
command—preach the Gospel, not defend it; preach the Word, not try to
prove that the Word is true. He is a believer in progressive theology,
in aggressive effort, in agitation, in conflict, in conquest, and in the
crowns which must follow this line of work. To the newspapers he
concedes he owes much of his success, they having been very kind to him
in their reportorial columns. The main object of all his preaching has
been to make men realize fully that sin is hideous and righteousness
attractive; to drive men from the former and attract them to the heights
and beauties of the latter. Mr. Jones was married in November, 1869, to
Miss Laura, daughter of John H. McElrain, of Henry county, Ky., and of
the seven children which have blessed this union six survive: Mary M.,
Annie C, S. Paul, Robert W., Laura Henry and Julia Baxter. Since the
above sketch was written, Mr. Jones died suddenly on Oct. 15,
1906. Source: Georgia Sketches of Counties,
Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, VOL II, by Candler &
Evans, Publ. 1906. Transcribed by Tracy McAllister
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