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Walls, George A. (1862-1939)
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A History of Preston County West Virginia
Biographical Department, Supplied by J. R. Cole
Kingwood, W. Va., The Journal Publishing Company, 1914
by H. S. Whetsell

Page 816, GEORGE A. WALLS. 

James Walls came from Delaware about 1790, and settled on what is now
known as the Daniel Ryan farm, near Pisgah, the homestead adjoining
the site of the village. Charles A. Walls, his son, married Sallie
Forman, and their children were: Jonathan, George W., Ami F., Eli J.,
Verlinda, Mary Ann, and Jemima.

George A. Walls has been long and favorably known in Kingwood as one
of the leading merchants of this place. He was born March 23, 1862,
on the old homestead at Pisgah, W. Va., and was the son of Ami F.
Walls and his wife Elizabeth (Adams) Walls. His father died in 1887,
fifty-nine years old. His mother is still living at the age of
seventy-two years. Mr. Walls was nineteen years old when he came to
Kingwood and began life for himself. He had previously prepared
himself with a good education, such as our best country schools at
that time gave us, and then he entered the county clerk's office as
deputy clerk. This was the time when J. Ami Martin was in office as
its chief. He served as deputy clerk from 1881 till in the fall of
1896, and then was elected county clerk to succeed Mr. Martin, and
reelected in the fall of 1902, serving until December 31, 1908. As a
public official, Mr. Walls served the people of Preston county
twenty-seven years, and gained for himself an enviable reputation
while in the county clerk's office.

Before Mr. Walls retired from public life he became a silent member
of the firm of E. C. Everly & Co. The company carried on
merchandising in the building erected by Mr. Walls in 1903. In 1909,
Mr. Walls purchased all interests in the business, since which time
it has been carried on under the name of "Walls-Shaffer Company."

June 23, 1888, Mr. Walls married Miss Cora Belle Snyder, sister to
wife of Ami Martin. She died June 19, 1889. One daughter, Cora Belle
Walls, was born of this union, April 19, 1889. She was educated in
the Kingwood High School, Kingwood, W. Va., and the Kee Mar College,
Hagerstown, Md. On November 3, 1910, she married Forest M. McDaniel,
of Kingwood, West Virginia, who is now located at Clarksburg and is a
civil and mining engineer for the Consolidation Coal Company of West
Virginia.

May 24, 1893, Mr. Walls married Olive Electa Parks, daughter of James
W. Parks, cashier of the Kingwood Bank. Her twin brother died at six
years of age.

Mr. Walls has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since
January 18, 1882, and he has been the recording steward of his church
fifteen years. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias.

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There's a tombstone in Maplewood Cemetery, Kingwood, Preston Co., WV
   near a PARKS / WALLS monument
      George A. Walls
      Mar. 23, 1862
      Aug. 11, 1939

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