Thomas Norris Jr.

   FamilySearch ID: GKNH-TFV.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Newspaper: The Kentucky Statesman: Legal Notices, 11 Aug 1868, Lexington, Fayette, KY. ³ DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,
District of Kentucky.
AT WINCHESTER, KY, THE 15th DAY of July, A. D. 1868, the undersigned hereby gives notice of his appointment as Assignee of
THOMAS NORRIS. JR.,
of the county of Fayette, and State of Kentucky, within said District, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt upon his own petition by the District Court of said District.
F. H. DUDLEY, Assignee.

2. Census in 1870 in Cynthiana, Harrison, KY. ⁴ The 1870 census recorded Jacob Wolford, liquor dealer, 27, living with wife Josephine, 24; and daughter Mary D., 1. The parents were born in Pennsylvania and Mary in Kentucky.
Also in their home is Josephine's sister, Martha (Cook) Norris, 27, born in Pennsylvania, with her husband Thos. Norris, painter, 32, and their son Frank, 6, both born in Kentucky.
Two others: domestic servant, John Berry, 8, born in Kentucky.
Thos. Norris, painter, 32.

3. Cause of Death: heart disease, 31 Aug 1895, Lexington, Fayette, KY.

4. Obituary: Lexington Herald-Leader on 31 Aug 1895 in Lexington, Fayette, KY. ² The funeral services of Thomas Norris, Jr., who died at St. Joseph Hospital at 7 o'clock this morning after a lingering illness of several years, will take place at the grave in Lexington cemetery Sunday morning at 9:30 c'clock. Thomas Norris, Jr., was a son of Mr. Thomas Norris, the well known veteran news dealer, and had been an invalid for nearly fifteen years. He was fifty-eight years old.

Thomas married Martha Matilda "Mattie" Cook, daughter of Stephen Beecher Cook and Lydia Beecher, on 7 Jul 1863 in Lexington, Fayette, KY.¹ (Martha Matilda "Mattie" Cook was born on 24 Feb 1843 in Carlisle, Cumberland, PA,^{5 6} died on 3 Jul 1901 in Lexington, Fayette, KY ^{5 6 7} and was buried on 4 Jul 1901 in Cynthiana: Battle Grove Cemetery, Harrison, KY ^{5 6}.)