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of their delegates, and he would win re-election and continue as a legislator and local lawyer during the conflict. Edward Burks did not have a physique strong enough for military service, and initially opposed secession, but drafted the resolution adopted in
Bedford County on March 29, 1861, recommending secession. On July 15, 1861 J.S. Burks assumed command of the
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January 1, 1883, Judge Burks contested his own removal after only six years, claiming that all that court's judges were elected for twelve-year terms. Unsurprisingly, the newly reconstituted court ruled against him as its first act of business on January 1, 1883. W.W. Henry,
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Virginia bar, Burks began a private legal practice in Bedford and adjacent counties. By 1850, he owned five enslaved people (a 30 year old woman, 17 year old man and girls aged 14, 10 and 6). Ten years later, Burks owned 11 or 12 enslaved people (6 or 7 adult men, a 15 year old
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represented Judge Hinton. Subsequently, however, Virginia legislators took care to make clear, when electing a justice following the death of a member of the court, whether the term is for the unexpired portion of the former justice's term or for a full term, usually the latter. In 1884, after Burks
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for graduation, had won election to the
Virginia House of Delegates in 1853 and served a term in that part-time position alongside William W. Reese before becoming a captain of the county militia, in addition to operating his own plantation. In 1859 Bedford County voters elected Edward Burks as one
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Edward Burks survived his wife by more than two decades, and some of his children also died before him. He was buried beside them in
Bedford's Longwood Cemetery. His son and former partner Martin P. Burks would later also serve on the Virginia Supreme Court as well as live in the family's Locust
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returned to private practice and
Democrats regained control of the Virginia General Assembly (including William P. Burks as one of Bedford County's delegates for two terms), Edward Burks became one of the revisors of the Code of Virginia of 1887, which he completed with
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and she had inherited the estate as the only child of Jesse
Spinner and his first wife, Celia Cheatwood). Young Burks attended several private schools when he was a boy, among them, the
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Grove home through the Great
Depression. Another generation of Burks would represent Bedford County in the Virginia General Assembly as part of the
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bar. His brother Jesse S. Burks won another term in the House of Delegates, which began in 1875, during which term Judge
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