Typescript family history: Samuel Cadwalder Walker and Emma Dee Pickens, page 1

[Penciled note at the top of the page, in the compiler’s hand:] compiled for Barbour County History Book March, 1979.

MR. and MRS. SAMUEL CADWALDER WALKER

(Emma Dee Pickens)

Samuel Cadwalder Walker was born in Winchester, Virginia in 1842. The family moved to Fairmont, West Virginia, then to Clarksburg. At 18, he joined the Union Army to “preserve the Union”.

In 1877, he married Emma Dee Pickens (1856 – 1933) of the Gnatty Creek area of Barbour County. She was the daughter of James and Anna Maria Dever Pickens.

Mr. and Mrs. Walker lived in Clarksburg and he traveled for Pennyman of Baltimore. They had two children — Anna and James Pickens. Anna was born in Clarksburg in 1878. They moved to the farm “Fairfield” at Overfield, W.Va. in 1879. James Pickens Walker was born there in 1883.

In 1889, Mr. Walker went to Charleston, W. Va. and opened a large book store. Later he came back to the farm, the book store venture being unsuccessful. In 1893 he entered Government service as immigrant inspector at Seattle, Wash. In the same capacity, he moved to Tacoma, Los Angeles and Havre, Montana, where he died in 1923. He is buried in Philippi in the Masonic Cemetary [sic], where his wife, daughter and son are also buried.

Mrs. S.C. Walker (Emma Dee) continued to live on the farm. In 1895, she took the two children and went to Washington, D.C. for the school year. She did this for three winters, then Anna entered Gunston and J.P. went to Rockville Academy. Mrs. Walker continued to spend the winters in Washington, and after Anna left Gunston, they spent the summers on the farm and the winters in the nation’s Capital.