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Author: Will T. Hale

   WALTON J. BUIE. Education and financial assistance are very important factors

in achieving success in the business world of today, where every faculty must be

brought into play, but they are not the main elements. Persistency and

determination figure much more prominently and a man possessed of these

qualities is bound to win a fair amount of success. Walton J. Buie, whose name

forms the caption for this article, earned his own education and during the

latter years of his life he has climbed to a high place on the ladder of

achievement. He is one of Green Brier's most prominent citizens and at the

present time, in 1912, is cashier of the Bank of Green Brier, one of the most

substantial and reliable financial institutions in Robertson county.



   Walton J. Buie was born in Robertson county, Tennessee, October 1, 1872, and

he is a son of John F. and Mary D. (Hinkle) Buie, the former of whom was born in

Davidson county, this state, in 1851, and the latter of whom is a native of

Robertson county, where her birth occurred in 1852. John F. Buie grew to manhood

in Davidson and Wilson counties and he is now engaged in agricultural pursuits

on a finely improved farm in the vicinity of Green Brier, Robertson county. He

and his wife reared a family of seven children, all of whom are living, in 1913.

They are members of the Missionary Baptist church and he is a Democrat in his

political convictions. He is a son of Washington and Catherine (Donaldson) Buie,

the former of whom was a gunsmith and farmer in Davidson county, where he died

in 1853, when John F. was a child of but two years of age. Jackson Hinkle, the

maternal grandfather of the subject of this review, was a native of Robertson

county, Tennessee, and here he was a farmer and chairmaker; he died at the age

of eighty-seven years.



   In the public schools of Green Brier Walter J. Buie completed his early

educational training. For two years he was a student in-the medical department

of the University of Tennessee and for ten years before and after attending

college he taught school in Robertson county. In 1879 he settled on the home

farm, in the work and management of which he assisted his father for the ensuing

three years, at the end of which he entered a general store at Green Brier as

clerk and bookkeeper. January 15, 1910, he entered the Bank of Green Brier as

assistant cashier and bookkeeper and he continued the incumbent of those

positions until August 15, 1912, when he was elected cashier of the bank. This

institution is capitalized with a stock of $10,000, has a surplus of $6,500 and

deposits amounting to $60,000. In addition to his work as cashier of the Green

Brier Bank, Mr. Buie devotes some attention to the life and fire insurance

business. He is a Democrat in politics and is serving Green Brier as justice of

the peace.



   In March, 1900, Mr. Buie was united in marriage to Miss Ella Sneed, a

daughter of Philip Sneed, who is engaged in farming operations near Cedar Hill,

Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Buie have three children: Annie May, Ruth and Alma Dean.

In their religious faith the Buies are devout members of the Missionary Baptist

church and they are popular in connection with the best social affairs of their

home community.



   In a fraternal way Mr. Buie is affiliated with the Junior Order of United

American Mechanics, the Modern Woodmen of America and the Independent Order of

Odd Fellows, in which latter two organizations he has passed through all the

official chairs.



Additional Comments:
From:



A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans : the leaders and representative men in

commerce, industry and modern activities

by Will T. Hale

Chicago:  Lewis Pub. Co.,  1913



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