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Submitted: 4/25/11 • Approved: 5/24/11 • Last Updated: 9/12/12 • R514223-G0-S3
Aug 1, 1811 - Apr 9, 1864
Born in Carroll County Georgia
Aged 52 Yrs 8 Mo & 8 Ds
Transcribed by Myrtle C. Nielsen
2001
My grandfather Abner Spencer Norman, as I told you was born, August 1st, 1811. In December 1834 he married Charlotte Ann Orr. She was the daughter of Lodowick and Nancy Orr, there in Carroll Co, GA. They lived there for a number of years until sometime in the 1850’s. They wouldn’t move with the Indians to Oklahoma. So they come down into Arkansas and stayed there. Abner Spencer Norman was shot by a rebel soldier. He was a cripple; he didn’t believe in the Civil war at all. He wouldn’t take sides of it, either side. Being a cripple , he didn’t have to serve in either army. He was shot and killed by a rebel soldier who stole one of his favorite horses and when he went after it and found the horse, why this rebel stepped around from behind the building and shot him. He got on his horse and road back. He didn’t go home but he went to his daughter’s home about 2 ½ to 3 miles north of what was then Mt. Home Arkansas.
He lived but 2 or 3 days before he died. It was April 8th, 1864 when he died and was buried in the garden spot out there north of MT Home. I believe you all know that we went in there in 1972 in June and dug the grave up and moved it into the cemetery in Mt Home because the country there was being subdivided and new streets put in and I was afraid the grave would be lost. I think I sent you pictures of what we found in the grave. Among the items was number of buttons a few bones and I had bought some of the buttons and one or two of the wrought iron nails that were in the boards placed over him. After he had been dead a 108 years, we still found his skull and a few of his bones.
Abner Spencer Norman and Charlotte Ann Orr raised a family of 11 children. Before he was killed, he had bought quite a bit of land around Mt. Home Arkansas. Several of the boys were killed in the Civil War. About 1879, his wife had the land surveyed and gave each living child a piece of land. Mother, being the youngest, got the home place and 60 acres. She went up to her sons, that is Grandmother (Charlotte Ann) went up to her sons in Baldwin MO and died I believe it was December 1880. And was buried there about 5 miles northeast of Baldwin MO. There was quite a cemetery there. I’ve been up there and got pictures of the tombstone.
(From Ancestry.com)
Photo provided by Ron Crawford
Contributed on 4/25/11
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