MONROE COUNTY, GA - BIOGRAPHIES   William A. Norwood

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'MEMOIRS OF GEORGIA", Historical and Biographical Sketches, by S. Emmett Lucas, Jr., PUBLISHED IN 1896.

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WILLIAM A. NORWOOD, planter, Culloden, Monroe Co., Ga., a
son of Caleb M. and Jane (Manson) Norwood, was born in
Charlotte, N. C., Dec,. 3, 1819. His father was of english
and his mother of Scotch parentage; and both were born in
Tennessee. After their marriage the young couple moved to
North Carolina, but after living there eight years went back
to Tennessee. In 1824 they moved to Georgia and settled in
Talbot county, where they lived and thrived, until 1837,
when they moved to Culloden, in Monroe county. They lived
there until they died - his father in 1854, and his mother
October 26, 1878. Mr. Norwood’s father was a planter, but he
operated a tannery and a shoe factory in addition, and was
very successful in all. He was a man of great energy,
enterprising and thrifty. He was one of the trustees of the
school. This couple raised six children, all yet living; all
have done well; one or more distinguished: Mary A., a widow
of Philip J. W. Echols , Columbus, Neb.; Rebecca J., widow
of James Alston, near Eufaula, Ala.; William A., the subject
of this sketch; Oscar A. laywer, Navasota, Texas; Elizabeth,
widow of William Askins (with son-in-law Robert O. Banks).,
Forsyth, Ga.; Thomas M. lawyer, Savannah, Ga.,, ex-United
States representative and senator. Mr. Norwood was a
democrat, and a member of the Methodist church. After the
death of his father, Mr. Norwood continued his enterprise
until the war, when, the hands going into the war, he
abandoned all except farming - a pursuit he has since very
profitably followed. April 15, 1852, Mr. Norwood was married
to Samantha E., daughter of William Askins - born near
Culloden, Sept. 17, 1833. To them eight children have been
born: Anna M., wife of James M. Ponder, Atlanta; Jane M.,
deceased, wife of John Colbert; Amelia, wife of O. Winn,
Dallas, Texas; Evelyn, wife of W. W. Griffin, Atlanta; Caleb
M. and three others. Mr. Norwood is enjoying life on his
fine 1,100-acre plantation, near the old school town so
famous in Monroe’s history as an educational center, where
many of Georgia’s distinguished men were academically
educated. Mr. Norwood is a democrat, a royal arch Mason, and
a Methodist.