From "HISTORY OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY,"  Vol. I, page 682.
Brant & Fuller, 1890.

JAMES BURLEY

Prominent among the former leading men of Marshall county was James 
Burley, who was born in 1800, a son of Jacob Burley, who was a 
sheriff of Greene county, Penn., and afterward of Marshall county, 
more than a half century ago.  He was married twice, first to 
Elizabeth Alexander, who died in 1832 at Wheeling, of cholera.  His 
second wife was Margaret Alexander, who died November, 1858.  He died 
January 4, 1870.  His occupation was farming for a time, also 
merchandise, and he filled the office of sheriff two terms, and was a 
state senator at the time of his death. He was a delegate to the 
famous Richmond convention of 1861, and therein opposed vigorously 
the scheme of secession, and favored in such an event the separation 
of Western Virginia, or if that was not possible, the annexation of 
the Pan-handle to Pennsylvania.  He was so active in behalf of the 
Union that it was said that a price of $2,000 was set upon his head, 
but he reached home safely by way of Washington and Pittsburgh.       

(Linda Fluharty)