Greenbrier County, West Virginia Biography of JAMES E. WALKUP. This biography was submitted by Sandy Spradling, E-mail address: This file may be freely copied by individuals and non-profit organizations for their private use. All other rights reserved. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. This file is part of the WVGenWeb Archives. If you arrived here inside a frame or from a link from somewhere else, our front door is at http://www.usgwarchives.net/wv/wvfiles.htm History of Greenbrier County J. R. Cole Lewisburg, WV 1917 p. 267-269 JAMES E. WALKUP. The Walkups and Beards were early settlers in Greenbrier county. They were Scotch-Irish, and of that sturdy old Covenanter faith which has always distinguished that race. They immigrated first to Pennsylvania and then went to Virginia and settled in Augusta county, and from there they came to this county. Christopher Walkup and his brother, Robert, visited Greenbrier county before the Revolution. In 1778 Christopher came again and entered a tract of land consisting of one hundred and seventy-five acres, on which the town of Renick now stands. This farm was sold to William Renick. who gave the town its name. Robert settled in Meadow Bluff. Both brothers married and reared families and their descendants to this day are known as men of important affairs. Christopher Walkup was the great-grandfather of James E. Walkup, who is now living on a farm four miles east of Renick which was bought by his grandfather of a Mr. Snodgrass. He married a Miss Rusk, of Augusta, Va., and from this union were born three sons-John, Christopher and Joseph, and three daughters. John was drafted in the War of 1812, but the war closed before he was called into service. Margaret married Samuel Beard, a major in the Continental army. John died about the year 1868, eighty-four years of age, and his wife, Miss Nancy Beard before marriage, died in 1858 in the seventieth year of her age. Their children were: Christopher, a captain of the State militia; Samuel W., a farmer; Joseph Josiah, the father of the subject of this sketch, and McElhenney Walkup. Joseph Josiah Walkup married Ann Eliza Elliott, daughter of James Elliott, who was shot and killed in a deer lick by an accident. He took up his residence on a farm two and one-half miles east of Renick. Their children were: James E.; Elizabeth, who married Harvey J. Hanna, now dead; Margaret, who married C. 0.[?] Huff; Ida, who married William R. Byrd; Lucy, who married Reuben Miles; Samuel B., who married Germina Williams, and Christopher William, who now resides in California. James E. Walkup, a large farmer and stock dealer, owns several farms. He was born October 3, 1844, and was reared on a farm. When eighteen years of age he enlisted in Company A, Fourteenth West Virginia Cavalry, and entered the service for the Confederacy, and served from the time of his enlistment, in 1862, to the close of the war. He participated in several of the battles fought in the Valley of Virginia and around Winchester, was at Chambersburg, and afterwards at Gettysburg, when his regiment did considerable reconnoitering. His regiment was also in that contest which fought General Hunter in a six days' fight from Staunton to Lynchburg, and scouted for Gen. Jubal Early in the Virginia Valley campaign. In 1868 James E. Walkup married Rachel M. Beard, now dead. She was the daughter of Robert Beard and bore him two sons, Robert and Harry, both of whom are dead. Harry also was a soldier, in the war with Spain, and was accidentally killed while in the Philippines, after being honorably discharged. Robert went West and was killed in a cave-in of a silo. He had three children, two girls and a boy. Mr. Walkup married for his second wife Miss Ida Jameson, in 1877. She was the daughter of David Jameson and Martha Walkup Jameson and bore him five children, four daughters and one son: Mabel, born February 26, 1880; Martha J., born October 4, 1881, married Cape Read and lives on the east side of Greenbrier river. Their children are James Hunter, Harry McFerrin, Homer Cletis, Leonard Caperton; Lenna E., unmarried; Lilly Ruth, married Hubert Beard and lives on Anthony's creek. They have one son, Dr. Homer A. Walkup and a granddaughter, Anna M. Walkup, adopted. The only son married Lillie B. Harris, of Morgantown. They have one child, Homer A. Walkup. Jr. The father is a physician, practicing his profession in Fayette county, West Virginia. He graduated from the State University at Morgantown and subsequently took his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the Washington and Lee University at Richmond, Va. He has been in the pursuit of his chosen profession since the year 1913. He is within the draft age and is in for the war with Germany in 1917, October 1st. The Walkups were all born soldiers and game citizens. Their names are found on the Virginia war rolls in all of her struggles in the history of Virginia.