From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 681.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.

ALFRED H. BURLEY

Alfred H. Burley, prominent as a business man at Cameron, W.Va., was 
born in Marshall county, February 26, 1849.  He is the son of Thomas 
H. Burley, a native of Pennsylvania, who before the war was a school 
teacher of much ability, and popular with the community.  Upon the 
first call for troops Thomas H. Burley enlisted in the support of the 
Union as a member of the First Virginia regiment, becoming a non-
commissioned officer of Company D.  He took part in the battles of 
Greenland Gap and Romley, and at the battle of Winchester in May, 
1862.  He was killed while bearing bravely his part in a charge 
across an open field against a stone wall.  He died on the field 
after two hours of suffering.  His age was then about forty years.  
His wife, Maria Ashbrook, now aged sixty-eight years, resides with 
her daughter, Mrs. J. U. Morgan, at Pine Grove, Wetzel county.  Of 
the five children of those parents four are now living.  Clifford, 
the oldest, served during the war in his father's company, as fifer, 
and was in the service nearly four years.  After the war he taught 
school two years, and then found employment  on the railroad, and was 
instantly klled while placing a brake between two freight cars.  He 
was at the  time aged twenty-four years, secretary of the Masonic 
lodge and presiding officer of the I.O.O.F. lodge, of which he 
belonged. Alfred H. Burley, first mentioned above, began working for 
himself at the age of sixteen years, and subsequently became a clerk 
in Davis's drug store.  In 1880 he went into a drug store with his 
cousin, J. A. Conley, and in 1882 embarked in business at Cameron 
with his brother-in-law, J. U. Morgan.  Buying out his partner in 
1884, he has since successfully conducted the business.  Mr. Burley 
was married November 20, 1882, to Keziah, daughter of Samuel Howard, 
of Marshall county, and they have had two children:  Bruce 
(deceased), and Alva S.  Mr. Alfred H. Burley is a member and captain 
of the Sons of Veterans. 

(Linda Fluharty)