John Norris

Birth Date

c1791

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Boone County, Kentucky, farmer. Maryland native. Married to Amelia Norris. Father of Henry O. Norris and John D. Norris. Veteran of the War of 1812. Farmer in Boone County in 1850. Farmer in Boone County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, District 2, p. 357. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, Petersburg District, p. 124. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boone County, Petersburg District, p. 10. Edwin Porter Thompson, A Young People’s History of Kentucky for Schools and General Reading (St. Louis: A. R. Fleming Publishing Company, 1897), 197. John M. Trowbridge, “’To Meet the Men at Any Element:’ The Kentucky Militia in the Battle of Lake Erie,” Kentucky Ancestors: Genealogical Quarterly of the Kentucky Historical Society 42, no. 1 (2006): 4.

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