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Re: Robert Norvell 1825 Tennessee

miclou_1 — 2009-10-14 13:47:34Z

Sorry, but I don't have anything on them.

Re: Robert Norvell 1825 Tennessee

smurfette280 — 2009-10-11 01:54:05Z

im trying to find out info on effie norvell..she was my grandmothers great grandmother ......can u help me with info on her ?????
810-887-0641

my name is Trina

my grandmother was Edna Norvell

Norvell, Thomas-Arkansas

kauaitutu — 2009-07-14 00:09:16Z

Seek info re: Thomas Norvell, s/o Charles Henry Kayser & Mary Norvell, of Pulaski Co, Arkansas. After divorce, Mary changed their son's last name to hers. Simply genealogy. Thomas Norvell Kayser, b.28 Oct 1915-Pulaski Co, Ark, dc1945.

Re: James Norvell

JNORV — 2009-06-07 16:32:02Z

I believe Mary Catherine Norvell is the daughter of James A. Norvell and Mary Elizabeth Booth. Mary Catherine and Nathaniel M. Whittker (b 1834 Indiana) appear in the 1880 census with children including Rufus Whittaker. If you would like more information please contact me at JENORV66@aol.com

John Norvell

Norvell

DTharpTX — 2009-06-07 12:55:01Z

I am seeking other family members with a connection to the Norvells of Middle Tennessee (Coffee, Rutherford, Cannon Counties). My Norvells were descendants of Captain Hugh Norvell of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia and of Dr James Knox Ladd Norvell of Beechgrove, Tennessee. If you are connected to these lines you may also want to visit my website, Tharpgenealogy.com. No log-in is required.

Crocket County, TN - Bertram Norvell

Jennifer_Norvell — 2009-06-05 13:15:32Z

I am looking for any information regarding my great-grandfather Bertram. The information I do have is that he lived in Johnson's Grove, TN; was a plumber; married twice - both to women named Hattie (the first was Miss Hattie Burnett); had son Carl Jones Norvell was with Hattie Burnett; and he eventually moved to Memphis to open a plumbing business. His son Carl was a cousin to Judge Willard Norvell in Lauderdale County, TN. If anyone can help me further my search - I would appreciate it very much. My personal email address is benttyne@aol.com. Thank you.

Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Co.,St.Louis,Mo.

genealogysleuth01 — 2009-06-05 13:14:52Z

Schapleigh Hardware Co.began in St.Louis in 1843.Eventually,it became"Norvell-Shapleigh Hdwe.Co.",possibly through marriage between the two families.Surnames also connected to Shapleigh:Lee,Betts,Wilde,Letourneau,O'Mara.Any connections

Re: Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Co.,St.Louis,Mo.

JNORV — 2009-06-02 12:29:44Z

This company was jointly owned by Saunders Norvell a businessman who later was president of Remington Small Arms.
Here is some information on Saunders and his connection with Norvell-Shapleigh. He was the son of Lewis Connor Norvell and Sarah Saunders.

he Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Company of St. Louis was one of the largest companies of this type in its time. Later (around 1917) the company became simply the Shapleigh Hardware Company. Sanders Norvell, who started with E.C. Simmons Hardware as a clerk, became Vice President there before moving to Shapleigh in 1902. He became President of Norvell-Shapleigh in 1907.

ST. LOUIS, March 23.— Saunders Norveil, president of the Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware company, who has just returned from Central and South AmerIca, where he had been on business, had an experience with the quarantine officers In thw tropics that he will not soon forget. Mr, Norvell went Into Colon on an Italian steamer and was greatly chagrined when Informed by the quarantine
physicians that both yellow fever and smallpox had been found on the vessel and he would not be allowed to leave itfor Several days. Mr. Norvell was in perfect health, and when he heard what the conditlons were he was exceedingly anxious to be on his way north.

"I called the doctor to one aide and asked him how Icould get out of the quarantine," said Mr. Norvell, in telllng of his experience. "I handed him a big: fat cigar and lighted It for him.He scratched his head a moment ans.said: 'See the ship at the next pier, Just go over and get on her and say nothing. She's off. for New York In three hours.

"I took his advice, paid the dock hands $5 to get my trunk transferred, and was soon sailing toward New York. After we had been out about five hours the ship physician came around to examine
me. I never felt better in my life. doctor,' 1 said. 'Just came up from South America on that Italian
ship and was lucky to get out so soon.'

"•What: You came in that Italian ship he Interrogated. "Why, man, there was smallpox and yellow fever ."If you develop either on this ship we all be quarantined at New York, if you got it, though, well put you off on the next island we come to and leave you there. About tho fifth day, when I should have developed yellow jack if the germs had been in my system we had a rough sea and I went into my
berth to rest. Tho doctor came around Don t know, Doc-,' I replied. 'I feel terrible. Ache all over. *I think I'vo got it.''The doctor turned white. He looked at my tongue, felt my pulse, thumped my ribs, examined my eyes and put me through the severest test ever experienced. 'What on earth's the matter with you?' •I feel terrible. Just the, same and I nuist have It.' The doctor went away greatly worried, but came around regularly overy hour and put me through the same examination. I knew there
was nothing the matter with me, but I wanted to jolly him. He was tho happiest man on board the ship when he saw me out "the deck after the storm.

Mr. Norvell spent six weeks In the. southern republic Investigating business conditions. When ho got hack to St. Louis he found the Democrats had nominated him for the city council.
Los Angles Herald March 24 1907

Saunders Norvell was a traveling salesman, and later manager at the Simmons Hardware Company of St. Louis. These so-called drummers, such as Norvell made seasonal trips. In the fall, selling goods for harvesting and hunting and in the spring, farm implements for planting and construction materials for building.

Norvell spent most of his life in hardware wholesaling. He was born in Canada in 1864 and grew up in St. Louis. At age seventeen he began working as a clerk at the Simmons Hardware Company, then a local concern. He was as a traveling salesman (1883 to 1892) and sales manager (1892- 1898). He enjoyed his work on the road, was a "good mixer," and also devoutly religious.

Norvell began working as a traveling salesman at age nineteen first assignment was to replace an ailing drummer who worked o the nearby Mississippi River town, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He was excited about the prospect of selling or, more particularly, of selling from town to town. "I bought a very large grip, a mackintosh a large umbrella and other things I thought I would need on my journey," he wrote though he soon learned to travel light. In the beginning he took the Iron Mountain railroad, choosing to save two dollars by not purchasing a berth and instead sitting up all night near the cast stove and being continually reawakened as they arrived at each and the doors opened to the cold air. He did not skimp on the train again. He also sailed on skiffs down the Mississippi River and moved from new territory in Alabama, Kansas, and Colorado.

He received limited training in sales, but did, however, occasionally get advice about building bonds with customers. He learned to make the customer feel special. He granted a lower price to large retailers and charge a premium to those who were usually slow to pay. Norvell placed his orders on Saturday so that they would arrive in St. Louis on Monday morning. The orders were then filled and shipped out Tuesday or Wednesday, and the customers would have the goods in their stores the following Saturday, or within about one week. The money proved fairly good, especially after Norvell was assigned to Kansas, which like many western areas experienced a building boom in the late nineteenth century.

Norvell worked on a flat salary of $1,800 (about $35,000 today) and earned a share of the profits, minus his salary and expenses. His sales were about $60,000 per year (just more than $1 million today). The profits on actual cost ranged from 25 percent to 30 percent, with his share being 33 percent. If, for instance, his gross profits for one year were $12,000, his share was $4,000. From this he deducted his salary ($1,800) and expenses ($1,200), leaving about $1,000 in commission for the year. His total income, therefore, was about $2,800 (about $55,000 today), being the total of his salary ($1,800) and his commission earnings ($1,000). Norvell took advantage of the inefficient methods of the regional retailers to ingratiate himself with his customers. Norvell spent much of his time packing and unpacking his heavy cases of samples. At the end of the day he hauled them to the train, spent the night in the sleeping car, and rose early to lug his samples to a new town. Endurance was critical for success. He later wrote an inspirational book “That Devil: Doubt,” and published a magazine “Gimlet.” His outlook was summed up in the ideal that a job presented limitless opportunity, and was constrained only by a person’s effort, confidence or imagination.

Source: Birth of a Salesman: Transformation of Selling in America by Walter A. Friedman, Harvard University Press, 2004 pp 74-79.

later President Remington Small Arms

St. Louis Post Dispatch
September 7, 1924

Former St. Louis Wholesale Hardware Dealer President of $15,000,000 Corporation.

Special to the Post-Dispatch.

New York, Sept. 7 – Saunders Norvell, former St. Louis wholesale hardware dealer, has been elected president and a director of the Remington Arms Co., succeeding J.B. Smiley, who resigned because of ill health. He also was made a director of the Remington Cash Register Co. and of all other subsidiaries of the Remington Arms Co.

The Remington Arms Co., with a capitalization of $15,000,000, has its offices in New York and in Wilmington, Del., and had manufacturing plants at Bridgeport, Conn., Ilion, N.Y., and in England. It manufactures arms, ammunition, cutlery and cash registers, and employs 6500 persons.

Saunders Norvell, now 63 years old, lived in St. Louis up to 1914, and was a forceful and picturesque figure in the business community. He turned his hand not only to large-scale business, but to art and to letters. As a youth, he drew cartoons, when such drawings rarely appeared in daily newspapers, and submitted some of them to Joseph Pulitzer, then the active publisher of the Post-Dispatch. Mr. Pulitzer liked the pictures, and several of them were printed and paid for. One day Norvell, needing money, called at the office in advance of the regular pay-day and asked to be paid for his last cartoon. Mr. Pulitzer, as Norvell afterward related, ordered him paid, and then dismissed him with the comment, “You’re not an artist, you’re a bill collector.”

In 1881 he went to work for the Simmons Hardware Co., where he remained until 1901, being successively stock clerk, salesman, sales manager and vice president. He left Simmons to become president of the Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Co., and headed that company until 1910.

While head of Norvell-Shapleigh, Norvell wrote a column of “Thots” attributed to a teamster, which were printed in the company’s house organ, and were widely quoted because of their practical philosophy. Later, Norvell exercised his gifts as a writer in the editorship of the Hardware Reporter, which he bough and conducted for several years.

Defeated for Mayoral Nomination.

Norvell was elected to the City Council on the Democratic ticket. In 1913, he sought the Democratic nomination for Mayor, and had the backing of businessmen and several of the party leaders, but was defeated in the primary by Dr. John H. Simon, who was later defeated by Henry W. Kiel, then elected Mayor for the first time.

The year after this experience, Norvell removed to New York, where he purchased an interest in a firm of manufacturing chemists and drug jobbers. A few months after he made this move, the European war began, and certain chemical products skyrocketed in price, to the great profit of Norvell and his associates.

Mrs. Norvell is a daughter of Leonard Matthews of 5447 Cabanne avenue, a retired businessman now nearly 99 years old. Their daughter, then Miss Lucy Norvell, now Mrs. G. Prather Knapp, was Veiled Prophet Queen in 1909.

Forty Years of Hardware
by Norvell, Saunders
New York: Hardware Age CR 1924, illustrated by Serena Summerfield. Top page of title page torn out, 443 pages. Black and white portraits. Autobiography of a man who spent most of his life dealing in hardware (Keen Kutter Company and Simmons Hardware in Colorado). The thrill of making his first dollar, the discouragement when someone else is promoted, and the feeling of lonesomeness of place and power. Humorous and sad. Dark blue covers, all good+ condition.. Stated first Edition. Hard Cover.

Re: Crocket County, TN - Bertram Norvell

jenh1966 — 2009-06-01 01:51:55Z

You can email me directly at Jenorv66@aol.com

This family line is well documented and I have it in my database and will be happy to send you a copy of my book in exchange for any information on Carl Jones Norvell and your family. I won't post any information on line for living folks.

Betram was the son of William H. Norvell and Mary Louise Whittaker.

John Norvell

Re: Crocket County, TN - Bertram Norvell

Jennifer_Norvell — 2009-05-31 23:28:43Z

Thank you so very much John. I have been searching for ANYTHING on my great grandfather Bertram for years without success. I am looking forward to add this information and now being able to redirect my search (due to the changed spelling of the last name). Listed here is in Bertram's death notice - they have my grandfather's name as Earl. It is Carl. His full name is Carl Jones Norvell of St. Louis. If you need any information - I will send it. Thank you again John! Jennifer

Re: James J. Norvell family, Claiborne Co., TN

jenh1966 — 2009-05-31 23:19:32Z

James J. Norvell listed in 1840 Census of Claiborne Co Tennessee
Name: James I Norville
County: Claiborne
State: Tennessee
1 male 50-60

Name: Syntha Norvell
Age: 41
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1809
Birth Place: Virginia
Gender: Female
Home in 1850(City,County,State): Subdivision 7, Claiborne, Tennessee
Household Members: Name Age
Bluford F Norvell 22
Syntha Norvell 41
Sarah J Norvell 20
Clarinda Norvell 17
Mary A Norvell 14
Hugh H Norvell 12
John Norvell 8
Nancy Norvell 6
Thomas Norvell 5
Elias Norvell 1

The son of James J. Norvell and Sytha Bluford Norvell

is Bluford F. Norvell listed in the census above.

Re: J. E. Norvell, Sheriff Rusk Co, TX about 1870

jenh1966 — 2009-05-31 23:15:18Z

Here is his biography from several sources:

His death notice from the Henderson newspaper

Henderson Rusk County, Texas

At 4 o'clock Monday morning, Mr. John Elam Norvell's soul passed from earth to that bourn from whence no traveler ever returns. For several months he fought the battle of life with a courage characteristic of the brave man that he was.

Mr. Norvell was born in Mississippi in 1843, where the family had gone from Tennessee to live temporarily, and soon thereafter the family returned to Tennessee. In 1853 the family moved to Austin, Texas, when the Capital of the State was but a village. His father died in 1850 and the family moved to Nacogdoches, at which place the subject of this sketch secured a clerkship in the
leading store oi the town. When the Civil War broke out, in 1861, at the age of 17 years he enlisted in McNally's Company, Green's Brigade, and during the four years of that terrible
conflict he bore himself as a faithful and valiant soldier leaving a stainless record behind.

After the war he engaged in business at Mt. Enterprise, and Feb 14th 1887 , he was married to Miss Kizzia Ross, a daughter of Dr. W. M. Ross, a prominent and successful pioneer physician.

In 1871, he was elected the first Democratic sherif of this county after Reconstruction and made a splendid officer. HE held that position for two terms and then was employed by Endel and Brachfield, who were among the leading merchants of Henderson, at that time, and remained with that firm until 1882, when he engaged in business on his own account, the style of the firm being Dotson & Norvell. This firm had a wonderful success, and was soon known as one of the strongest and most reliable mercantile establishments in Eastern Texas. In 1890 Mr. Norvell took over the entire firm and was its sole proprietor until the reorganization of the Farmers & Merchants National Bank. He was made President of that bank...

Mr. Norvell’s career has been a checkered one. The years that he lived measure more than half the years that the Republic of the United States has existed, and two years more than the age of the State of Texas.

Left penniless st his father's death, thrown upon his own resources at a time when he should have been in school, entering the Civil War when he was but a youth of 17, and returning home to find his country in ruin and poverty and distress, he entered upon his life's work with a will and determination which baffled and overcame every obstacle, and wrought success far beyond the average businessman of his day.

His business enterprise did not prove to be successful, and when he left the sheriff’s office, he was struggling to meet past obligations. Upon entering the store of Endel & Brachfield as a salesman his ready cash was only 50 cents, so he frequently has told the writer, as he would recount the hardships of his early days.

His life is an outstanding example how what ceaseless energy , iron will, and unfaltering determination can accomplish under the most trying circumstances, and is an inspiration to the young men of the country whose chances for success must lead them through years of self denial, work, and frugality.

One only had to know Mr. Norvell intimately to appreciate all of his virtues. Deep down in his heart there was a great reservoir of noble impulses and an abiding desire for the welfare of all people. He was by nature a man of strong passions and at times his feelings were hard to control. But he and the good sense to know that a life to be useful should control anger and to bring under subjection the evil spirits so common to human nature. Not long ago, he said to the writer, that he made up his mind that one should endure the insults of men rather than resent them in a way that might lead to serious trouble. He said he would rather have his feeling wounded than resort to bodily harm; that it was far better to suffer humiliation than everlasting mortification on account of an evil deed.

He read the best magazines, and whenever an article impressed him favorably, he was anxious that his friends should read it so that its influence might be extended over the largest possible field and good accomplished.

He was scrupulously honest, and in no circumstances would he tolerate, in business or out of business, what is called the tricks of the trade or questionable methods of dealing with men. His generosity and hospitality were lavishly bestowed upon his friends and the hand of charity was extended to those in want. He loved his family, trusted his friends, had faith in his country, and longed to see the whole world in peace, and believed that the time was near when swords would be beaten into plowshares, and the spears into pruning hooks, and that nations will go to war no more.

For more than 40 years, he was a member of the Board of Stewards of the M.E. Church , and was a constant attendant at the various services and ordinances until deafness rendered it difficult for him to hear.

He was Mason for 60 years, having joined the order at Enterprise where he maintained his membership.

There were present at the bedside at his death, he wife, his four sons, Messrs. Tom and W. E. Norvell of this city, Charley Norvell of San Angelo, and John Abe Norvell of Eagle Pass; and his two daughters, Mrs. R. T. Brown of this city, and Mrs. L. E. Zorn of Del Rio. Also his half brother Matt Muckelroy of Nacogdoches.

Funeral services were held at the family home Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock, conducted by the pastor, Rev. Frank E. Luker, after which the remains were laid away in the family lot in the old cemetery. All business in the city was suspended during the funeral hour.

From "Rusk County History" published in 1982; Source biogrqaphy of John Elam Norvell prepared by Charles Alford Norvell.

In 1853 Charles Moores Norvell, born in 1816, with his wife and family moved from Tennessee to Austin, Texas. His wife was Sarah Scruggs Norvell born in 1824. They had a large family but only two sons survived infancy and early childhood. These two were John Elam Norvell, born in 1843, and Eugene Norvell, born in 1846. Charles Moores Norvell died in Austin in 1857, leaving a widow and two sons.

To support the family, J. E. Norvell secured a job in a store in Nacogdoches, Texas, where the widow and her family had moved. He continued in this job until the outbreak of the Civil War. He was fourteen at the time of his father’s death.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, J. E. Norvell enlisted in the Texas Cavalry, McNally’s Company, Green’s Brigade. The theater of operation for this unit was around Galveston.

At the conclusion of the war, J. E. Norvell returned to Nacogdoches. Times were hard; the blight of Reconstruction lay heavy on the South. The young man secured a job as a blacksmith in a shop in Mt. Enterprise owned by William G. Ross, a prominent and wealthy citizen of that town. Often when J. E. Norvell was working in the blacksmith shop, the young, red-haired daughter of the owner of the shop, Kiziah Ross, would come by and make eyes at the young man from Nacogdoches. This resulted in their marriage in 1867 in the home of the bride. The minister officiating was A. S. Hayter.

J. E. Norvell had received little, if any, schooling, His bride, a schoolteacher educated in Virginia, became a teacher of her young husband. He became an avid reader of newspapers and periodicals. Under the tutelage of his wife, J. E. also learned to read and write in Latin.

The children born to this couple were: Ross Norvell, Tom Norvell, Charles Norvell, Mary Norvell (died at age two), Sallie Norvell, Margaret Norvell, John Abe Norvell, and William Eugene Norvell.

J. E. Norvell entered upon a business venture in Mt. Enterprise that was not successful. This was to leave him with debts that were a burden on him for many years before he paid them off. In 1871 he became a candidate for the office of sheriff of Rusk County. He was elected and served in this position for two terms. He was the first sheriff from the Democratic Party after the days of Reconstruction. As was customary at the time, he was also the collector of state and county taxes. The descendants have among their papers a State and County Tax Receipt signed by J. E. Norvell, Sheriff.

Long after his term of office had expired, J. E. Norvell retained an active interest in county politics. His family have in their possession an ebony gentleman’s cane with a gold handle inscribed: “1898—Presented to J. E. Norvell Dem. Chairman—(by) Rusk County officers.”

After his terms as sheriff had expired, Norvell entered the employ of the firm of Endel and Brachfield. He remained with this firm until he entered into a partnership with E. M. Dotson to open a mercantile business. In 1885 these two purchased from J. Harvey Turner the building, which they occupied under the trade name of “Dotson & Norvell—Dry Goods, Groceries.” This building still stands near the intersection of Main and South Marshall and was formerly occupied by J. B. White Company. Behind the metal façade of the present building the names of Dotson and Norvell still remain. (South Marshall was then named Johnson Street.) This building had once been the site of the Wheaton Hotel, which had burned. In the same block were another mercantile building, two confectionary stores, and a saloon. Dotson and Norvell paid Turner $1,500.00 for the property--$500 down and the remainder in a note.

This mercantile firm was successful. In 1890, J. E. Norvell took over the sole ownership of the business having bought out his partner for $3,000.00. The name of the firm was changed to J. E. Norvell & Sons. This firm continued in business until J. E. Norvell retired from the mercantile business to enter the banking business.

The descendants of J. E. Norvell have in their possession many promissory notes issued to J. E. Norvell & Sons by various individuals, many of them farmers. It was the custom of the time for merchants to furnish farmers on credit to be repaid when the crops were gathered. On the backs of many of the notes there are notations of payments on the note; the backs of other notes are blank indicating no collections were ever made. J. E. Norvell was a lenient creditor, not foreclosing on the lands of delinquent debtors.

J. E. Norvell was partially deaf and therefore often spoke in a loud voice. He was gruff and abrupt, never hesitant to speak his mind; there were occasions when he could be impolite. He was puzzled one day by an item in an invoice for a shipment of merchandise. Finally he gave up and shouted out in a voice heard all over the store (some have said even out in the street), “What are these things called Ladies Brassieres?”

In 1902 Norvell was elected to be a director of the first Board of Directors of The First National Bank. J. C. Hickey was the President of this bank and E. C. Oberthier was a Director. Both of these men were later to be domino-playing cronies of J. E. Norvell.

In 1884 Norvell purchased from J. S. Mathis for $1,800.00, nineteen lots facing South Main Street and extending west to South Standish. The Church of Christ now occupies a part of this land. On the land was a two-room log structure with a kitchen attached; it had originally been built by Mr. David Gage. J. E. Norvell added additional rooms and a second story. A feature of this house was the basement with three-layered brick walls. Because of this the temperature in the basement remained constant in winter and in summer. It was in this basement and on the long enclosed back porch with a well at one end that the grandchildren of J. E. Norvell loved to play. This house was the home of J. E. Norvell at the time of his death.

In 1905 the Farmers and Merchants National Bank was established with J. E. Norvell as the chief executive officer. He was to retain this position until his death in 1923. The motto of the bank was “Don’t forget the Cow, the Sow, and the Hen.” This bank later was to become The Citizens National Bank.

Because of his gruff personality, J. E. Norvell was known to intimidate many customers of the bank. One day a man came in to borrow money with which to open up a new business. The reply of the bank president was heard all over the building, “No, I won’t let you have the money. You don’t have enough sense to run a business. In six months you’ll be broke.” The applicant secured the money elsewhere and opened his business. Surely enough, within six months he was broke.

J. E. Norvell was member of the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Church for forty years. One Sunday this church was having a special financial drive. A steward would call out the name of a member and that person would state aloud what he would give. J. E. Norvell did not approve of the open, public auctioneer manner of fund raising. The steward called out, Mr. Norvell, what will you give?” J. E. replied in a loud voice, “Not a cent, sir, not a cent.” The congregation was stunned. Later in private, J. E. Norvell gave generously.

In the latter years of his life, J. E. was semi-retired from the bank. He would gather with his friends, E. C. Oberthier, J. C. Hickey, and Sam Gaut to play dominoes under a sycamore tree on the lawn of the courthouse. There were others who also would play there. This informal social gathering became known in town as “The Sycamore Club,” and often these friends would argue loudly over the game.

Norvell died in 1923. The editor of the local newspaper wrote a long obituary full of praise. For his funeral all business in Henderson was suspended. He was buried in the Old Cemetery in a lot, which he had purchased in 1891 for $12.00.

J. E. Norvell was unique. The Henderson Insurance Agency now occupies the Farmers and Merchants National Bank Building.

The orbituary on John E. Norvell, in the Henderson, TX, paper of 4 Apr 1923, states that the family first moved to Austin, TX in 1853 and following the death of his father in 1856, the family moved to Nacogdoches, TX.

Civil War records show John E. Norvell born ca 1844 in Mississippi; spouse is Keziah t. Ross, married 16 Feb 1867, Rusk Co, TX; parent shown is mother, Sarah S. Norvell; he served in co. H. 4th Regiment, Texas Calvar

Burial:
Old City Cemetery
Henderson
Rusk County
Texas, USA
Plot: Norvell family on east side

NORVELL, John E 1905 1934
Lakewood Cem Rusk Co Texas

Re: James Monroe Norvell - Chariton County, MO.

jenh1966 — 2009-05-31 23:12:06Z

This is their line in the 1870 census

Name: John H Akers
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1810
Age in 1870: 60
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1870: Cuivre, Pike, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: View Image
Post Office: Bowling Green
Household Members: Name Age
John H Akers 60
Martha Akers 53
John J Akers 21
Bettie A Akers 16
Charles Akers 14
Martha J Akers 10
George B Akers 8
Lynn Norvell 11
Hugh H Akers 23

Re: Ross C Norvell

jenh1966 — 2009-05-31 23:07:05Z

This is from the 1910 census

Name: Ross C Norvell
Age in 1910: 35
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1875
Birthplace: Missouri
Relation to Head-of-house: Brother
Father's Birth Place: United States of America
Mother's Birth Place: Iowa
Home in 1910: Independence Ward 3, Montgomery, Kansas
Marital Status: Divorced
Race: White
Gender: Male
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Walter C Norvell 31
Allie Norvell 35
Pearl Norvell 7
Ross C Norvell 35
Ella M Norvell 5

Missouri marriage records

Name: Mr. Ross C Norvell
Age: 46
Birth Date: abt 1877
Marriage Date: 6 Sep 1923
Marriage Location: Harrisonville, Cass, Missouri
Marriage County: Cass
Spouse Name: Georgie Lee Allen
Spouse Age: 26
Spouse Birth Date: abt 1897

He may have been married twice as he had a daughter before he married Georgie Lee Allen.

Re: F. S. Norvell m. Vinita Newby 1899 Bosque Co., TX

jenh1966 — 2009-05-31 23:03:04Z

Hw was the son of John P. Norvell and Louisa Lawrence

Here is some source material

nternational Genealogical Index - North America
F.S. Norvell to Vinita Newby Marriage: 02 AUG 1899 , Bosque, Texas

Bosque County, Texas Marriages
GROOM INDEX
1860 - 1928
Transcribed by MARY TURNER KINARD
COPYRIGHT Mary Kinard
NORVELL, F S NEWBY, VINETA 2 AUG 1899 G©219

WW I Draft registration cards, 1917 - 1918

Name: Fidelia Sharp Norvell
Address: RFD 3 Shawnee
County: Pottawatomie
State: Oklahoma
Birth Date: 16 Dec 1872
Race: White
Roll: 1852124
DraftBoard: 0
traveling salesman for Charles Peker? Tobacco Co of St Louis MO
nearest relative: Vinita Norvell, RFD 3, Shawnee
medium height stout brown eyes dark hair
6 Sept 1918, Shawnee, OK

Name: Shorp Norvell
[Fedilia Sharp Norvell]
Age in 1910: 37
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1873
Birthplace: Mississippi
Relation to Head-of-house: Head
Father's Birth Place: Missouri
Mother's Birth Place: Missouri
Spouse's name: Vinita
Home in 1910: Davis, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
Shorp Norvell 37
Vinita Norvell 33
Bascomb N Norvell 8
Shap L Norvell 4

Re: Crocket County, TN - Bertram Norvell

jenh1966 — 2009-05-31 22:59:34Z

Here is his obituary if this helps

The Crockett Times
Alamo, Tennessee
Thursday, April 8, 1948

Services for Bert Norvell of 1061 Morehead, Memphis plumber for many years, were held at 2 p.m. Monday at the National Funeral Home, Rev. J. G. Hughes officiating. Burial was in Forest Hill. He died Saturday night at St. Joseph's Hospital and was 57 years of age.

He leaves his wife, Mrs. Hattie Norvell; his son, Earl Norvell of St. Louis, Mo.; two brothers, Ernest Norvell of near Alamo and Frank Norvell of Brownsville and three sisters, Mrs. Maud C. Smith of Memphis, Mrs. Eula Worrell of Slaughter, La., and Mrs. C. Clark of near Alamo.

The 1900 census lists the family, name is mispelled as Nowine

Name: William H Nowine
[William H Norvell]

Home in 1900: Civil District 14, Crockett, Tennessee
Age: 54
Birth Date: Apr 1846
Birthplace: Tennessee
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
Gender: Male
Relationship to head-of-house: Head
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Spouse's name: Mary L
Marriage Year: 1869
Marital Status: Married
Years Married: 31
Residence : Johnson Grove Town, Crockett, Tennessee
Occupation: View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
William H Nowine 54
Mary L Nowine 50
Emma Nowine 23
Ray Nowine 14
Robert T Nowine 12
Bertham Norvine 9

Re: Felix Norvell

jenh1966 — 2009-05-31 22:56:11Z

He apparently had more than one wife, here is the census data:

850 Census
Name: Felix Norvil
Age: 32
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1818
Birth Place: North Carolina
Gender: Male
Home in 1850(City,County,State): District 22, Bedford, Tennessee
Household Members: Name Age
David Norvil 12
Felix Norvil 32
James Norvil 2
John Norvil 7
Martha Norvil 37
Mary Norvil 10
William Norvil 5

1860 Census
Felix Norvell
Age in 1860: 39
Birth Year: abt 1821
Birthplace: Tennessee
Home in 1860: District 8, Hardin, Tennessee
Gender: Male
Post Office: Lowryville and Herbertsville
Value of real estate: View Image
Household Members: Name Age
Felix Norvell 39
Nancy Norvell 33
Malinda Norvell 11

1870 Census
Home in 1870: District 7, Wayne, Tennessee
Race: White
Gender: Male
Value of real estate: View Image
Post Office: Waynesboro
Household Members: Name Age
Felix Norville 54
Caroline Norville 30
Eveline Norville 2
Sherman Norville 1

Name: Felex B. Norvels
Home in 1880: District 7, Wayne, Tennessee
Age: 61
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1819
Birthplace: North Carolina
Relation to Head of Household: Self (Head)
Spouse's Name: Caroline
Father's birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's birthplace: North Carolina
Neighbors: View others on page
Occupation: Farm Laborer
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Household Members: Name Age
Felex B. Norvels 61
Caroline Norvels 40
Evaline Norvels 12
Sherman Norvels 10
Rachel E. Norvels 8
Jane Norvels 7
Irena P. Norvels 5
Pheby R. Norvels 1

Re: Lawton Miles Norvell, Lauderdale Co., TN

jenh1966 — 2009-05-31 22:51:04Z

They are listed in the 1930 census:

Lawton Norvell
Home in 1930: Brownsville, Haywood, Tennessee
Age: 32
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1898
Birthplace: Tennessee
Relation to Head-of-house: Head
Spouse's name: Annie
Race: White
Occupation:

Household Members: Name Age
Lawton Norvell 32
Annie Norvell 42
William Drumwright 52
Louise Norvell 8

William Drumwright is listed as brother in law to Lawton.

Re: norvell/nowell

BarbaraHall48 — 2008-06-01 21:43:31Z

I believe you are right,but I can't connect them.Cary Winston named his first son,James

Re: Ross C Norvell

JNORV — 2008-12-21 13:42:00Z

I have the line of Ross Calhoun Norvell in my database

at
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jenorv66

John Norvell

Mary Norvell - Lawrence Richardson and Alice Walker

JNORV — 2009-02-28 15:56:44Z

Alice Walker daughter of James Walker and Mary Norvell for many years was believed to have married Lawrence Richardson. This has been bought into question as a grave for Alice Walker is in the Old City Cemetery listing her birth as 1831, which corresponds with known information and death in 1832, and lists the parents as James and Mary Walker. Additionally, the 1910 census lists a Lawrence Richardson and wife Margaret W. not Alice.

If this is true, then Lawrence Richardson did not marry Alice Walker the daughter of Mary Norvell and James Walker and sister of William Walker, the filibusterer in Nicaragua in 1857.

Grace Norvell

JNORV — 2008-09-17 23:48:57Z

Grace Norvell who authored many works on the early Norvells and was considered an expert on these lines passed away last December. Her works included: "James Norvell of Goochland County, Virginia, With Some Indications of His Tidewater Ancestry," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, August and November, 1988. She was a great help to many Norvell researchers and will be missed greatly.

John Norvell

Re: James Monroe Norvell - Chariton County, MO.

JNORV — 2008-08-18 12:08:39Z

The line of Martha Norvell and John Akers is in my database

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jenorv66

Hope this helps

John Norvell

Re: Benjamin F. Norvell/MO - Info Search

JNORV — 2008-08-18 12:04:14Z

I have his line in my web database, it was provided to me by a descendant several years ago.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jenorv66

John Norvell

NORVELL Eugenia Bernice 1904-1987

t42Arlington — 2009-02-27 20:56:25Z

NORVELL Eugenia Bernice 1904-1987

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NORVELL Mary M and Sam K

t42Arlington — 2009-02-27 20:55:59Z

NORVELL Mary M and Sam K

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Re: James Robert Norvell

autotech112561 — 2008-11-20 01:38:47Z

mary jane was my 3rd great grandmother

Re: Ross C Norvell

autotech112561 — 2008-11-19 20:41:32Z

ross calhoun norvell was my grandfather

Re: History of the (Clinton) Norvells and Related Families

clpenick — 2008-09-19 16:07:25Z

Don't know if you have seen this, but it may be relevant to your question.
NORVELL, James LaFayette

The subject of this brief review, who has wrought in many fields of
labor during the twenty-two years of his residence in this state, has
in each demonstrated his ability to meet every kind of responsibility
and perform with success and credit all kinds of serviceable duties.
He was born in McMinn county, Tennessee, on November 20, 1861, and is
the son of Asbury and Nancy (Cox) Norvell, who were born and reared
in Tennessee and lived there until the death of the father in 1897,
since which year the mother has made her home in Colorado. The
father was a prominent farmer in his native county, and was also
active in local politics as a Republican. He filled a member of
county offices from time to time, and to the end of his life was an
influential and highly respected man. The son James L. received a
common-school education and worked with his parents on the home farm
until he was twenty years of age. In 1882 he became a resident of
Colorado, after passing a few months in various occupations, at and
around Dixon, Wyoming. On his arrival in this state, in the fall of
the year last named, he located a ranch near Craig which he improved
and sold. He then took up a homestead, and while developing and
improving that, and conducting on it a flourishing stock industry,
operated a stage line between Steamboat Springs and Lay, continuing
the latter until 1890. Since then he has given his attention to
ranching and cattle interests, and in addition to the mercantile
business, being the founder of the J. L. Norvell Mercantile Company
at Hayden, of which he owns three-fourths of the stock. He now lives
in Steamboat Springs. During his early years in the West Mr. Norvell
experienced many hardships and privations. The conditions of life on
this far frontier were hard to bear at the best, and his lack of
capital rendered them additionally grievous in his case. But he was
not made of the fiber that yields to difficulties. He felt within
him the forces fitted to win success, and he steadfastly pushed his
way over every obstacle toward his present substantial and pronounced
prosperity. Since 1902 he has devoted a large portion of his time,
in connection with his other enterprises, to the Christian ministry
under the government of the Congregational church, and is accounted a
man of great usefulness in this department of public work.
Politically he is an earnest Republican, but while giving his party
the benefit of his best services as a citizen, he has not been an
offensive partisan or an office seeker in any sense. Seeing clearly
and feeling deeply the needs of the community in which he had cast
his lot, he has worked zealously for its welfare and been potential
in promoting its best interests. On December 31, 1902, he was united
in marriage with Miss Mary J. Hamilton, a native of Iowa. They have
two daughters, Ruth L. and Edith M. In this and other Western
states, nature is provident in furnishing opportunities for
successful enterprise, and Mr. Norvell is one of the sterling
citizens the section who has the clearness of vision to see her
bounties and energy to seize upon them and use them to his advantage,
at the same time turning them to the lasting benefit of the community
in which he lives. Through out his life here he has been earnest and
effective in making the most of his time and labor, and in doing this
he has been of signal and appreciated service to every element of
progress and improvement in his section of the state. Scarcely any
higher tribute can be paid to a man's worth than to establish the
fact that he has made all his chances subservient to his own
advancement and the enduring welfare of those around him, whether his
course has lain along the points and pinnacles of great affairs where
history holds her splendid march, or amid the ordinary pathways of
life where plain and simple duty lifts her daily voice. And this may
be truthfully said of Mr. Norvell, that wherever he has been he has
manfully met the requirements of his station.

Re: Lawton Miles Norvell, Lauderdale Co., TN

jenh1966 — 2008-06-01 16:57:08Z

I have this line in my database

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

John Norvell

Re: norvell/nowell

jenh1966 — 2008-06-01 12:50:43Z

I believe I have his line. I believe he was the son of James Norvell who married Elizabeth Clark, son of Spencer Norvell and Frances Hill. James appears to have had two wives.

John Norvell

Re: Mack Russell Norvell b 1874 Texas

jenh1966 — 2008-06-01 12:39:44Z

I have this line in my database.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

I hope this helps you.

John Norvell

Re: HENRY NORVELL

jenh1966 — 2008-06-01 12:12:22Z

I have this information in my database

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

John Norvell

Re: HENRY NORVELL

jenh1966 — 2008-06-01 12:00:06Z

I have this family in my database

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

John Norvell

Re: HENRY NORVELL

jenh1966 — 2008-06-01 11:58:10Z

I have this line in my database

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

Would you be willing to share more information on your family?

Thanks

John Norvell

Re: HENRY NORVELL

jenh1966 — 2008-06-01 11:56:15Z

I have this line in my database

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

Would you be willing to share additional information on your family I might not have/

I hope this is helpful

John Norvell

Re: Felix Norvell

jenh1966 — 2008-06-01 11:32:52Z

I appreciate your kind words and thank you for sharing. I will check your tree to add to mine. I am trying to document as much as possible all the descendants of Thomas Norvell, our earliest ancestor in Virginia.

John Norvell

Re: Benjamin Franklin Norvill, Illinois vicinity

jenh1966 — 2008-07-17 22:26:00Z

Oliver Norvell Hardy was the son of Mary Emily Norvell and Oliver Hardy. Mary's parents were Thomas Benjamin Norvell and Mary Freeman, they are in the line of Thomas Norvell and Anne Mosby back to George Norvell and Sarah Holdscroft.
You can see his lineage at my database site

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jenorv66

John Norvell

Re: norvell/nowell

jenh1966 — 2008-06-01 22:25:05Z

He was in Mason Co Virginia Census in 1830. I looked at Norvells who would have had to be born early enough to be his father, about 1780. You are right about the son James, that was the clue.

There are few James Norvells born in the 1780s who are not connected to a family in that period. That is why I suspected James son of Spencer Norvell and Frances Hill. Documenting this may be more difficult, but it seems to be logical and probable.

NORVELL Grace N and Walter C

t42Parkdale — 2009-03-31 22:49:53Z

NORVELL Grace N and Walter C

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Re: Ross C Norvell

karis_watkins — 2008-08-06 11:16:35Z

Mr. Ross Calhoun Norvell Has Death certificate on line at:

http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives

Records for death from 1910 to 1957 in missouri are now online.
When I use the search engine I only put in the last name so that I might Manage to link other family members.
Hope this helps
Karis watkins

Re: James Monroe Norvell - Chariton County, MO.

karis_watkins — 2008-08-06 09:42:17Z

This is the email I attempted to send you. your email address is not accepting my mail. you may contact me at
karis.mymail@gmail.com

Hello,
I have access to some of the death records of Missouri, You may also access them online. for the years of 1910 through 1938. This is a free service.
there is a George Henry Norvell who fits your data.
his wife's name was Mary. he was 77 at time of death. in Union Twnshp, Barton County Missouri. date of death is June 21, 1923. He was born August 22, 1845 Near Keytesville Missouri.

to access the file on line in PDF format go to:

http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives

Hope this helps your searching. I too have just started the Norvell line in Missouri.
My link is Martha Norvell m. John H. Akers b. Va. , son Wm. Norvell Akers b. Oct. 7,1844 d. Feb. 24, 1926. My g.grandfather.

Blessings
Karis Watkins

Re: Benjamin F. Norvell/MO - Info Search

karis_watkins — 2008-08-06 08:31:45Z

Hello,
I know it has been some time since this inquiry was made.
I too am searching some of the Norvell line, as well as Akers, Patton, Huckstep, and Griffith. I have recently discovered that some of the original death certificates from 1910-1957 in Missouri are online for viewing and saving as a PDF format. you can search them at:
http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/

they also have a few pre 1900 birth and death records online as well but they are not very clear like the ones from 1910-1957.
I found a Bengamin F. Norvell in Jackson County Missouri Death Record and in reading it I think it should be Benjamin.
Hope this helps your searching.
Karis_watkins

NORVELL Charles T 1922-1992

t42Moore — 2008-11-07 01:54:29Z

NORVELL Charles T 1922-1992

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NORVELL Harold G 1916-1972

t42Moore — 2008-11-07 01:53:58Z

NORVELL Harold G 1916-1972

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NORVELL Mary Kathleen 1945-1977

t42Moore — 2008-11-07 01:53:43Z

NORVELL Mary Kathleen 1945-1977

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NORVELL Shirley S and Phiner R

t42Moore — 2008-12-14 21:09:27Z

NORVELL Shirley S and Phiner R

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NORVELL Mark 1952

t42Moore — 2008-12-14 21:09:11Z

NORVELL Mark 1952

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Re: James Robert Norvell

dawnwilliams1969 — 2008-11-20 10:04:10Z

ok. who are you? Mary Jane was my third great grandmother also. my email is dawnwilliams2000@hotmail.com

Re: Benjamin Franklin Norvill, Illinois vicinity

dvsmp — 2008-07-02 22:46:13Z

Yes, Benjamin Franklin Norvill was the son of Oliver Norvill and Mary Jane Sampson. He was born in Fulton County, Illinois in 1857. He later moved to Seward, Nebraska. I would be very interested in obtaining a copy of this photo.