Typescript family history: James Pickens Walker and Amy Perry FitzSimons, page 1
Book 1, Page 660 ·1883–1979
Transcription
[Penciled note at the top of the page, in the compiler’s hand:] compiled for Barbour County History Book March, 1979.
MR. and MRS. JAMES PICKENS WALKER
(Amy Perry FitzSimons)
James Pickens Walker was born in Overfield, West Virginia April 27, 1883, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Walker. He was named for his maternal grandfather, James Pickens.
He attended Peabody Grade School in Washington, D.C. 1896–1898, and Rockville Academy, Rockville, Maryland 1899 – 1901. In 1902 he entered Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. where he was on the varsity football team and the rowing squad. He studied Civil Engineering.
He went to work for the B & O Railroad, then for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. While working on the construction of the new station and yards at Charleston, South Carolina, he met and married Amy Perry FitzSimons, (1888 – 1974), on October 20, 1908.
His work was with the Atlantic Coast Line all of his life, living in many different towns and cities, with long tours of duty in Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga. and Jacksonville, Florida. He retired as General Superintendent of theA ACL [sic] in April, 1949 in Jacksonville, a highly respected and greatly loved man. He died in Jacksonville Nov. 19, 1960 and is buried in Philippi in the Masonic Cemetary [sic] with his parents and sister, Anna Walker Modisette.
He and Amy had four children, the first one, Amy, died in infancy. The other three were James Pickens Walker, Jr., Emma Dee Walker, and Mary Ann Walker.
James Pickens, Jr. married Ann S. Knight of Jacksonville, Florida in 1941. They had no children. He died Jan. 2, 1969.
Emma Dee Married Dr. Robert Corbell, Jr. of Portsmouth, Va. in 1938. They had three children — Robert L Corbell, 111, James Walker Corbell and Dee Corbell. James Walker died age 9.
AI Notes
First page of a multi-page typed family history evidently prepared by a family member for submission to the Barbour County (W.Va.) History Book project. Penciled at the top in cursive: ‘compiled for Barbour County History Book March, 1979.’ The page is on cream typing paper with double-line spacing and shows scattered offset / ghosted text bleeding through from a facing page in the album (visible ghosts include ‘Emma Dee died May, 1959.’, ‘January, 1960.’, and ‘February 7, 1975.’ — these come from the typed verso of page 661 setting off onto this side). The typescript narrates the life of James Pickens Walker (1883–1960), his marriage to Amy Perry FitzSimons, his career on the B&O and Atlantic Coast Line railroads, and his children. Continuation of his daughter Emma Dee’s life is at the top of page 661. Emma Dee’s marriage to Dr. Robert Corbell, Jr. is dated 1938.