Editing Marshall County, West Virginia (section)

===Civil War===
The Civil War divided Marshall County. Western Virginian [[Southern Unionists]] collected in the [[Wheeling Convention]] after the [[Virginia Secession Convention]] of April 1861. Jacob Burley's son, a farmer and [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] who also served as sheriff and then local Justice of the Peace since 1850, [[James Burley]] had been easily elected as Marshall County's delegate at the Secession Convention. His father-in-law was Bushrod W. Price, who had served as delegate in the Virginia General Assembly.<ref>NRIS for [[Bushrod Washington Price House]] at Section 8 p. 3 available at http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/marshall/95001326.pdf</ref> Burley voted against secession during both votes, which caused the secessionists to expel him from that convention, but he later won election to the West Virginia Senate in 1863 and 1867.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biographical Sketches: James Burley |url=http://www.wvculture.org/history/sesquicentennial/bioburleyjames.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908011834/http://www.wvculture.org/history/sesquicentennial/bioburleyjames.html |archive-date=September 8, 2015}}</ref> Marshall County's delegates to the Wheeling Convention included Remembrance Swan (whose son Remembrance M. Swan would fight for the Union as an Iowa volunteer),<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Leckey |first1=Howard L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UM7gBFLDzvkC&q=remembrance+swan+west+virginia&pg=PA173 |title=The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families |last2=Leckey |date=June 2009 |publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com |isbn=9780806350974}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 25, 2010 |title=Civil War Notebook: Remembrance M. Swan |url=http://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/08/remembrance-m-swan.html}}</ref> C. H. Caldwell and Robert Morris. Ultimately, the Wheeling Convention process led to the creation of the State of West Virginia in 1863.

Meanwhile, [[James M. Hoge]], who had briefly been Elbert Caldwell's successor as the Marshall County commonwealth attorney, but who moved downriver and owned slaves in [[Putnam County, West Virginia|Putnam County]] (which sent no delegates to the Wheeling Convention) was elected by Marshall County Confederate troops as Marshall County's delegate in the Virginia General Assembly.

Marshall was one of fifty Virginia counties that were admitted to the Union as the state of West Virginia, at the height of the war on June 20, 1863. Later that year, the counties were divided into [[civil township]]s, with the intention of encouraging local government. This proved impractical in the heavily rural state, and the townships would be converted into [[minor civil division|magisterial districts]] in 1872.<ref>Otis K. Rice & Stephen W. Brown, ''West Virginia: A History'', 2nd ed., University Press of Kentucky, Lexington (1993), p. 240.</ref> Marshall County was initially divided into nine townships: Cameron, Clay, Franklin, Liberty, Meade, Sand Hill, Union, Washington, and Webster.<ref name="Census Bureau MCD">[[United States Census Bureau]], [[United States Census|U.S. Decennial Census]], Tables of Minor Civil Divisions in West Virginia, 1870–2010.</ref>