History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography (Volume 4) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1921. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... telle; 4. Joseph Henry; 5. James Aqullla. Residence: Mobile. NORWOOD, HENRY, planter, sheriff, major general State militia and member Alabama legislature, was born in Franklin County, Tenn., and died July, 1840, at Bellefonte; son of Samuel Norwood who lived near Winchester, Tenn. The early American ancestors were of English stock and settled in Virginia and North Carolina. He was a man of good education a planter and slave owner, located in Jackson County, in 1820. He served as lieutenant in the War of 1812; was captain in the Creek and Seminole Wars in Florida, 1836-40; and at the time of his death was both sheriff and majorgeneral of State militia. He represented his county in the legislature at the sessions of 1831, 1832, 1833 and 1835. Married: (1) to Aletha, daughter of George Caperton, who resided near Bolivar, Jackson County, originally Virginians who had removed first to Georgia and later to Alabama; (2) to Sophia Metts, daughter of James I. and Margarete (Praigmore) Green, the former a native of New Jersey and the latter of Tennessee. Children by first marriage: 1. Samuel C.; 2. Eleanor; 3. George A.; 4. John H. (q. v.).; 5. Hugh J.; 6. Elizabeth; 7. Mary; by second marriage; 8. William H. Last residence: Bellefonte. NORWOOD, JOHN HENRY, lawyer, brigadier general, C. S. Army, State senator, member constitutional convention, 1875, probate judge, was born November 23, 1828, at Bellefonte, Jackson County, and died there November, 1891; son of Henry and Aletha (Caperton) Norwood (q. v.). He was educated in the public schools of Jackson County; spent three years in Irving college, Tenn.; read law in his native village and admitted to the bar in 1852; was appointed probate judge in 1855, and was shortly thereafter elected to succeed himself, holding...