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"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 one 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 fhe 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 farm 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 Lafayette3, 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, whn 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
History of Alabama and Her People," Vol. 3; The American Historical Society, Inc.; Chicago and NY; 1927; "Alabama Biography by Special Staff of Writers."
From the Website of Les Buckalew
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