Memorandum: family of Samuel Cadwalder Walker and Emma Dee Pickens
Book 2, Page 54 ·1842–1933
Transcription
A small pedigree summary at the top of the page:
Samuel Walker — m — Elizabeth Wilson
Samuel Cadwalder Walker — B. 1842 — m. 1877 — Emma Dee Pickens — B. March 10th 18[56] — D. " 30 — 1933
Anna Streit Walker James Pickens Walker
[Pencilled marginal annotation in the left margin alongside the next paragraph repeats: “Emma Dee Pickens”.]
Narrative beneath:
Samuel Cadwalder Walker was born in Winchester Va. 1842. Later the family moved to Fairmont W. Va. then to Clarksburg W. Va. At 18 he joined the Union army — “To preserve the Union.” He married Emma Dee Pickens in 1877. They lived in Clarksburg and he travelled for [Pennyman] of Baltimore. Anna was born in Clarksburg May 1878. They moved to the farm Fairfield — which had been given to her by her father James Pickens — in 1879.
James Pickens Walker was born at Fairfield April 27th 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 not being successful. In 1893 he entered Gov. service as immigrant inspector at Seattle Wash. In the same capacity he moved to Los Angeles + Tacoma + Havre Mont. where he died in 1923 — and is buried in Philippi W. Va.
Mrs. S. C. Walker continued to live on the farm. In 1895 she took the 2 children and went to Washington D.C. for the school year. She did this for 5 winters — Then Anna entered Gunston and Pickens went to Rock Hill Academy in W[ash-]
AI Notes
Page of handwriting in pencil on lined notebook paper (three-hole punched). Opens with a brief pedigree summary in the upper third — Samuel Walker m. Elizabeth Wilson; their son Samuel Cadwalder Walker (b. 1842) m. 1877 Emma Dee Pickens (b. March 10th 1856; d. ’ 30 — 1933) — followed by their two children Anna Streit Walker and James Pickens Walker. Beneath the pedigree, the compiler Amy Walker writes a biographical narrative of her parents-in-law’s family. The pencilled marginal annotation ‘Emma Dee Pickens’ in the left margin alongside the body text reaffirms her name where the text says only ‘her father James Pickens.’ The wife’s name Emma Dee Pickens matches the photo captions and biography on pp052/662/664. ‘Penny[man]’ is the surname of a Baltimore merchant whose firm S. C. Walker travelled for. Continues on page 55.
Narrative continues on page 55.
Samuel Cadwalder Walker’s enlistment “at 18 … to preserve the Union” places him in the Union army c. 1860 from the western Virginia counties that would secede from Confederate Virginia and enter the Union as the new state of West Virginia on 20 June 1863. Gunston Hall, the girls’ school Anna entered, was a well-known finishing school in Washington, D.C., founded 1892 and active through the 1930s — distinct from the colonial Mason family estate in Virginia of the same name.