Thaddeus Alonzo Norris (1868 - 1929)

Born 6 Jul 1868 in Overall, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah E. (Davis) Norris — married [date unknown] in TN

Descendants

Died 3 Mar 1929 at age 60 in Rutherford, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Thaddeus, known as Twister, was born in 1868. He was the son of Isaac Norris and Margaret Brooks.

Twister Norris and Sallie Davis were married in about the year 1880. In the 1910 census, he is age 42, with occupation “general farming” and Sallie as age 39.

Their children are:

• 1. Daughter Margaret “Mag” E., born 1892.
• 2. Son Alma, born 1894.
• 3. Son Thomas, born 1896.
• 4. Daughter Jenny May, born November 1901.
• 5. Son Jim E., born 1906.
• 6. Son Clifford, born 1910.

Twister was the Constable of Rutherford County and on March 5, 1929, was shot and killed by Oscar Morgan. This event is recorded in the Rutherford County Record, page 61. (Mobile, Ala. Public Library) ^[1]

Twister and his wife Sallie are both buried in a Presbyterian church cemetery about five miles from Murfreesboro on the Manchester Pike, highway 41 south. Mount Tabor Church Cemetery, along with his half brother-Jesse's wife. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NSLD-Z96 : 1 March 2021), T. A. Nanis, 3 Mar 1929; Death, Murfreesboro, Rutherford, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124834076/thaddeus-alonzo-norris

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