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James Wesley Sterling Norris
Note: Family oral tradition says he was a Native American, probably
Choctaw. Several families with the name of Norris are listed on the Dawes Final
List, but he has not been identified from the list at this time.
Born
August 1876 (Information from Death Certificate)
Occupation:
Farmer
Father:
Alfred Norris
Mother:
Mary ______ Norris
Note:
Listed on 1880 Census Marshall Co. MS living with his parents, Alfred and Mary Norris.
Note: Listed
on 1900 Federal Census Marshall Co. MS, Beat 3, page 166; listed as single, farmer, renting 14 acres
Note:
Listed on 1920 Federal Census Sunflower County, MS; he is married to Katie and has a daughter (Annie) and a stepson (Henry)
in the household.
Married
15 October 1912, Sumner, Tallahatchie Co. MS (Information from Marriage Registry)
d.
9 AM, 3 January 1926, Hinchcliff, Quitman County MS
Cause
of Death: Pulmonary Tuberculosis; Death certificate states he had been ill with this condition for 3 years and 1 month prior
to his death.
Buried
on 4 Jan 1926 in an unmarked grave in Hinchcliff Cemetery, North of Marks MS on Highway 3, Quitman County, MS
James
W. Norris married Frances Katherine "Katie" Mooney Rogers on 15 Oct 1912 (Marriage recorded on page 95, Book II 1909- 1923
Marriages, District II, Sumner, Tallahatchie Co. MS)
Frances Katherine "Katie" Mooney
b.
1889, Charleston, MS
d.
May 1946, Yalobusha Co. MS
Noted on 1930 Federal Census Quitman County, Mississippi
Beat 3, District 11, Page 135, House 102, Family
107
Rodgers, Henry, Head, Male White, 21, Single, Farmer,
Renting Home
Norris, Kate
Mother, Female, White, 40, Widowed, Laborer
Norris, Annie
Half-sister, Female, White, 15, Single, Laborer
Norris, James
Half-brother, Male, White, 7, Single
Norris, Audry
Half-brother, Male, White, 5, Single (Note error as to sex)
Katie
is buried in an unmarked grave in Enid- Oakhill Cemetery, Enid, Yalobusha Co. MS
Her parents: Richard M. Mooney and Annie Cordelia Morrison
Mooney; (Married
4 July 1888, Marriage recorded on page 393, Book 1880- 1891 Marriages, Charleston, District I, Tallahatchie Co. MS) (Buried in unmarked
graves in Webb-Sumner Cemetery, Webb, MS)
Married 1st- Monroe Rogers
(Widowed)
Child: Henry Edmon Rogers, b. 26 February 1909
Married
2nd- James Wesley Sterling Norris
Children:
- Annie Cordelia Norris (Bell), b. 12 September
1914, d. 4 July 2003, Grenada, Grenada Co. Ms; Buried in Elliot Baptist Cemetery, Elliot, Grenada Co. MS
- James Matthew Norris, b. 28 May 1922
- Audrey Mae Ione Norris (Melton), b. 6 June
1925
- Lola Modena Norris (died as infant; buried
in Dublin Community, Coahoma County, MS)
- Carmen
Viola Norris (died as Infant; buried in Morehead, Sunflower County, MS
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