Typescript family history: Emma Dee Pickens Walker

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

EMMA DEE PICKENS WALKER

Emma Dee Pickens Walker was a daughter of James Pickens (1817 – 1887) and Anne Maria Dever Pickens (1825 – 1899).

Mr. and Mrs. Pickens had eight children, and owned several thousand acres of land in Barbour County on Gnatty Creek, at that time the richest portion of the County, both as respects the status of its people and the fertility of its soil. This land was handed down to his blood heirs by the provisions of his will, executed in 1884. He died Jan. 22, 1887.

Mr. Pickens was all his life a moneymaking man, and a large lender of money to his neighbors. He was frugal, industrious, temperate and devoted to his family. The family consisted of two sons — John D. Pickens and Dever Pickens, and five daughters viz: Margaret, the wife of N.D. Boring; Charity, the wife of A.H. Young; Mollie, the wife of Oran Martin; Emma Dee, the wife of Samuel C. Walker; Jennie, the wife of John W. Stewart. At the time of his death, he had two grandchildren — viz; Albert S. Pickens and May Pickens, afterwards, the wife of Austin H. Davisson. These were the children of his deceased son, Alexander Pickens.