Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Keeling, James Milnor June 6, 1918
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Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 07, 1918

Judge Keeling Dead
Deceased Had Served With Distinction in the Confederate Army

Norfolk, Va., June 6- Judge James Milnor Keeling, retired, one of the best-
known jurist of Virginia, died today at his home in Princess Anne County at 
the age of seventy-one years. Judge Keeling served with distinction in the 
war with the Confederate Army, taking part in many of its most famous 
battles, and was widely known as the daring courier of General Fitzhugh Lee. 
His record on the bench for many years was enviable.


Confederate Veteran Magazine, August 1918

On Thursday morning June 6, 1918, Judge James Milnor Keeling, a prominent 
citizen and a distinguished member of the bar, died at his home in Virginia 
Beach, Va. He left surviving him his wife, Anna Shepherd Keeling, and a 
daughter, Mrs. William Howard Ashburn.
Judge Keeling was born at the family homestead, in Princess Anne County, 
Va., August 31, 1844. Leaving school in his seventeenth year, he entered the 
military service of the Confederacy, and there he remained until the end of 
the war, taking part in many important battles and engagements-Gaines’ Mill, 
the seven days before Richmond, Culpeper C.H., the Wilderness, Spotsylvania 
C.H., Brandy Station, Beaver Dam, Luray, Winchester and Cedar Creek, 
Dumfries, Reams’ Station, Raccoon Ford, Stevensburg, Trevilians, and Lacy 
Springs. He participated in Stuart’s celebrated raid around the army of 
Burnside and was with Stuart at Yellow Tavern and bore a message from him, 
shortly before he was killed, to Col. Henry Clay Pate. No reward after life 
ever equaled in his mind that reward of valor which he received at Brandy 
Station, a saber wound in the right hand.
After the war young Keeling returned to his native county and took up again 
the stern, pressing duties of life. History has never adequately told the 
story of those Southern youths who, their education cut short by the war, 
breasted the four long years in defense of the constitutional rights of 
their States and then returned home only to find a stricken community to 
resuscitate and a future without promise to face. Judge Keeling was among 
this number. He studied law for three years and in 1868 was admitted to the 
bar. In June, 1875, he was appointed judge of the county court of Princess 
Anne County and served continuously for twenty-one years, when he resigned 
and resumed the practice of law. He was industrious by nature, possessed of 
a vigorous mind, and endowed with deep convictions of right and wrong and 
professional propriety. He was modest and retiring, but courageous to a 
degree.
Judge Keeling was a manly man in the deepest, broadest, highest sense of the 
term. He was a true, kind-hearted, modest, unassuming, upright gentleman, 
quiet in demeanor, even-tempered in disposition, dignified in manner, 
courteous to all. For some time he had been in failing health, and for at 
least a year he was conscious of the approach of death; yet he did not 
falter, but calmly awaited the pallid messenger with that same spirit and 
courage which in the olden days had sustained him on the battlements of 
Spotsylvania and in the gloom of the Wilderness. And there in his native 
county, which he loved so well, close to the sea and within sound of its 
manifold voices, his spirit took its flight, and all that was mortal passed 
into “pathetic dust.”


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