H. T. Norman - Fulton County, was born where Fulton now stands, July 15, 1843. He is the fourth of six children, three boys and three girls, born to Noah and Mary (Fields) Norman, natives of Rockingham County, North Carolina, and of Tennessee, respectively, and of Scotch-Irish and German descent. Subject was reared on the farm and lived with his parents until the war broke out, when he enlisted in Company A, Seventh Kentucky Infantry, under Captain Pirtle, Wickliffe colonel commanding. He took part in the battles of Shiloh, Franklin, bombardment of Vicksburg, Harrisburg and Okolona. After eighteen months' service he was transferred to cavalry, when the regiment became the 8th Kentucky. He was under Gen. Forrest in the battles of Johnsonville, Nashville, second Franklin and in numerous skirmishes. He fought fourteen days in succession, and surrendered in April 1865. On his return home he engaged in farming where Fulton now stands. He is in the possession of 115 acres of land, adjoining Fulton on the east. He made two additions to the town of Fulton, first of seven acres and the second of fifteen acres. He has one of the finest places in the county of Fulton, a fine brick residence located in a grove of five acres, three quarters of a mile east of the business part of the town. Mr.Norman married, February 12, 1867, to Martha M. Clark, of Weakley Co., Tenn. She is the daughter King Hiram and Sally (Horton) Clark. Mr. And Mrs. Norman had born to them these children: Benj. F., Early T., James W., Noah, Hiram, Robert H., Emma and Carrie Ann. Mr.Norman and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The portrait of Mr. H. T. Norman appears elsewhere in this volume. "Histories and Biographies of Ballard, Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken and Marshall Counties, Kentucky" - A Reprint of Part II of: Battle, J.H., W,H,Perrin and G.C.Kniffin. Kentucky: A History of the State. First Edition. Louisville, Chicago. F.A.Battey Publishing Co., 1885 - pg.206