Nathan Norris
| ID: | I86 |
| Last: | Norris |
| First: | Nathan |
| Middle: | |
| Birth: | 3 Jul 1770 at Edgefield Co., South Carolina 1 |
| Death: | 5 Mar 1851 at Edgefield Co., South Carolina 2 3 |
| Burial: | 4 |
| Sex: | M |
| Notes: | Nathan Norris was named in various deeds and family papers following the Revolutionary War and into the mid-1800's. Among these were: 1799 - Nathan Norris received from William Norris 750 acres of land. SC Edgefield Deed Book 18, p. 8-11. 1810 - Nathan Norris from Benjamin Buzbee, deed of Conveyance. 50 acres on Wests Creek of the little Saluda River (adjacent to land of Nathan, Agness and William Norris, Adam Lagrone, Shadrack Ward. Edgefield District Deed Book 30. 1815 - Nathan Norris and Ansel Sawyer, executors for Benjamin Busbie. Edgefield Co., SC wills, 1787-1836, by James E. and Vivian Wooley, c. 1991, p. 101. 1816 - Nathan Norris, John Bates, William Norris executors of Will of George Risor. Edgefield Co., SC Will Book A, p. 371. 1821 - Nathan Norris, William B. Norris, Wilhio Dezhaze witnesses to will of Philip Rawls. SC Book 1, p. 112C. 1842 - Nathan Norris and E. H. Norris - - - in Piney Woods, Leesville, SC. "Papers of the Coleman, Feaster, and Faucette Families, 1787-1943" , South Caroliniana Library, University South Caroliniana Society, Manuscrupts Collections. See webpage: http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/1998/colema98.html. The following extract is from the webpage: / "Also included is family correspondence from the NORRIS family of Leesville. A letter, 8 May 1842, of E.H. Norris, Piney Woods, Leesville, reports that his family's health was good with the exception of Nathan who had been suffering with a headache for two days-"last night I bled him and gave him some pills he says he feels better this morning." |
| Sources: | 5 |
| Mother: | Agnes Frederick b: ABT 1751 d: 1822 |
| Father: | William Norris b: 1720 d: 1782 |
| Marriage 1 | Mary Drucilla Desaussure b: 13 Oct 1770 d: 1843 |
| Wedding: 1789 | |
| Children: | |
| 1 Mary Drucilla Norris b: 5 Apr 1800 Edgefield Co, South Carolina | |
| 2 Elbert Henry Norris b: 25 Jun 1797 Edgefield Co., South Carolina | |
| Sources: | |
| 1 | Repository: --Name: Library of Congress Title: Saluda County, South Carolina, Epitaphs (Formerly Old Edgefield District) Still Villages Author: Seay, June Anderson Publication: Privately published, Lexington, South Carolina, 1986 Call Number: Lib.Congr.86-90675, ISBN 0-9617786-0-1 and -1-x Page: p. 156 Note: Birth year from Norris Memorial: Nathan Norris / 1770 - 1851 / Mary deS. Norris / 1770 - - - 1843 / . . . |
| 2 | Repository: --Name: South Caroliniana Library - Univ. So. Carolina --Address: University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 --Phone: (803) 777-3132 Title: South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, SCMAR Publication: Brent H. Holcomb, ed., P.O. Box 21766, Columbia, S.C., 29221 Call Number: 929.205 So8s Note: Marriage and Death Notices from Columbia, South Carolina Newspapers, 1838-1860. Text: p. 92 The South-Carolinian: issue of March 10, 1851. Died, of pneumonia, on Wednesday evening, the 5th instant, at his residence in Edgefield district, Nathan Norris, in the 81st year of his age. p. 285 (289). Palmetto-State Banner, issue of March 11, 1851. Died, of Pneumonia, on Wednesday evening, the 5th inst., at his residence in Edgefield District, Nathan N. Norris, in the 81st year of his age. |
| 3 | Repository: --Name: Library of Congress Title: Saluda County, South Carolina, Epitaphs (Formerly Old Edgefield District) Still Villages Author: Seay, June Anderson Publication: Privately published, Lexington, South Carolina, 1986 Call Number: Lib.Congr.86-90675, ISBN 0-9617786-0-1 and -1-x Page: p. 156 Note: Death year from Norris Memorial: Nathan Norris / 1770 - 1851 / Mary deS. Norris / 1770 - - - 1843 / . . . |
| 4 | Repository: --Name: Library of Congress Title: Saluda County, South Carolina, Epitaphs (Formerly Old Edgefield District) Still Villages Author: Seay, June Anderson Publication: Privately published, Lexington, South Carolina, 1986 Call Number: Lib.Congr.86-90675, ISBN 0-9617786-0-1 and -1-x Page: p. 156 Note: Research in progress on individuals listed on Norris monuments. Text: Norris Memorial / Nathan Norris / 1770 - 1851 / Mary deS. Norris / 1770 - - - 1843 / Elizabeth N. Mann / 1778 - 1807 / Sarah N. Webb / 1776 - ____ / Amelia N. Harnesberger / 1808 - 1881 / Carolina N. Browning / 1806 - ____ / Hepzibah N. Holstein / ____ - 1854 / Carolina N. Denny / 1840 - 1872 / Estelle N. Adams / 1857 - 1918 / Mary N. Holstein / 1847 - 1884 / Irving M. Norris / 1845 - 1862 / Hepzibah Bond Bates / ____ - 1866 / Mary Ridgell Hartley / 1826 - 1861 // To / Our Honored Dead / Who Rest In Other / Family Burying Grounds. |
| 5 | Title: 1850 U.S. Census, Edgefield Co., South Carolina Publication: Roll M432_852 Page: p. 350 Note: Nathan Norris, age 80. He died within a year of this census. In same household: Sophia Burton age 26, born SC Sophia Norris age 15, born SC Nathan Burton, age 4, born SC Susannah C. Burton, age 2 Records contributed to Rootsweb.com by Carroll Buzhardt, July 2nd, 1999: http://www.rootsweb.com/~scedgefi/1850.txt. |
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