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Joseph Norris (Bethel, Missouri, farmer and War of 1812 Veteran)

b. 1790?

Bethel, Missouri, farmer. Maryland native. Married to Lydia Norris. Father of America Norris, Edward Norris, Joseph Norris, George Norris, and Thomas Norris. Veteran of the War of 1812. Farmer in Oneco, Illinois, in 1850. Farmer in Bethel in 1860.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Stephenson County, Town of Oneco. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, Shelby County, Bethel Township, p. 23. 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. Find A Grave, "Joseph Norris (February 18, 1790 - July 13, 1879)," Memorial #129106505, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi/page/gr/http//fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=129106505 (accessed June 27, 2017).

Citation

Norris, Joseph. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202733 (November 12, 2026).

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