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Walter Alves Norwood (Henderson County, Kentucky, physician)

b. 1806? d. 1861-04-01

Henderson County, Kentucky, physician. North Carolina native. Son of William Norwood and Robina Hogg Norwood. Married to Mary Lambert Norwood in Henderson, Kentucky, on April 29, 1856. Father of Eliza Norwood and Rebecca Norwood. Attended the University of North Carolina from 1823 to 1826. In partnership with Dr. Robert P. Letcher in Henderson c.1855. Physician in Henderson County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1860. Allegedly murdered by escaped slave, Jim Brown, on April 1, 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 85.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, p. 146.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Corydon, p. 37A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Henderson County, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film 001944390, p. 113. "Daily Louisville Democrat, 1861-04-05,"

Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program, https://kentuckynewspapers.org/catalog/xt7rxw47qw60?q=Dr.+Norwood (accessed April 10, 2019).

Kemp B. Battle, “Sketches of the History of University of North Carolina,” in U.S., College Student Lists, 1763-1924 (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Alves Norwood Apperson, Genealogy of the Norwood, Hogg, Lovick, Benners and Howell, Garrett, Harrison Lines (Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, 1944), 18, 55, 82.

Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky (Henderson, Kentucky, 1887), 558-61.

Citation

Norwood, Walter Alves. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196920 (November 12, 2026).

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