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