William Norman (1755 - 1841)

Born 22 Sep 1755 in Culpeper, Virginia

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Died 1 Jul 1841 at age 85 in Culpeper, Virginia

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Biography

William was born in 1755. He was the son of Courtney Norman and Mary Browning. He passed away in 1841.

William Norman m. Mary Browning, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Bywaters Browning. They were first cousins. William served as captain in Revolutionary War. Among the children of Capt. William Norman and Mary Browning Norman was Agnes Norman who married William Grimsley, 1807. From this line there came a line of eminent lawyers and Baptist preachers. A son, Reverend Barnett Grimsley of Rappahannock County, was one of Virginia's most outstanding Baptist preachers. It is said that he was a delicate child because of a serious operation performed on his head, and that in later life he attributed much of his success to his mother's tender care and watchfulness over him. Among the descendants of Capt. William Norman in the counties of Culpeper and Rappahannock are the families of Grimsleys, Woods, Johnsons, and Bruces.

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• Judge D. A. Grimsley. The Browning Family in Ralph Travers Green, Genealogical and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Virginia, Embracing a FRevised and Enlarged Edition of Dr. Philip Slaughter's Histgory of St. Mark's Parish. Culpeper, Virginia, 1900, p. 151. Accessed 18 August 2021 jhd
• https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~lincolncountynormans/genealogy/people/norman/isaac.htm#Courtney