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 1851 - 1921 (~ 69 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. | Milford Norton was born Dec 1851, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA (son of William Norton and Elizabeth Roberts); died 9 Mar 1921, Bremen, Cook, Illinois, USA; was buried 14 Mar 1921. Other Events:
- Occupation: Porter
- Reference Number: 1256
- Residence: Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Marital Status: S
- Residence: 1870, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1900, Clinton, Vermillion, Indiana, USA
Notes:
Buried:
Age: 69
Milford married Lula M. Jones 4 May 1880, Vermillion, Indiana, USA. Lula was born May 1865, Ohio, USA. [Group Sheet]
Children:
- Floy Norton was born Jan 1885, Indiana, USA.
- Birdie Norton died , USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
Milford married E. Bunch [Group Sheet]
Milford married Joanna Patterson. Joanna (daughter of Robert Patterson and Dolly Ann Powell) was born Feb 1853, Illinois, USA; died 26 Jul 1935, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
Notes:
*** Per Otis Calvin Tyler (otis1931) ***
Otis claims that his grandmother Jennie Tyler, told him when he was in his teens, that her father was a Norton. Otis assumes that it was Milford. I have no records to prove this assertion. Anyone having DNA evidence to prove or disprove this assertion, should contact me.
Children:
- Jennie F Stewart was born 15 Sep 1876, Parke, Indiana, USA; died 22 Nov 1950, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Stewart Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
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Generation: 2
| 2. | William Norton was born 1830, North Carolina, USA (son of Chesley Norton and Elizabeth 'Betsy' Walden). Other Events:
- Reference Number: 2184
- Residence: 1 Jul 1863, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
William married Elizabeth Roberts 9 Dec 1852, Vigo, Indiana, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of James Roberts and Polly Stewart) was born Abt 1835, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 3. | Elizabeth Roberts was born Abt 1835, Indiana, USA (daughter of James Roberts and Polly Stewart). Other Events:
- Race: Mulatto
- Reference Number: 2283
- Residence: 1850, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 15
- Residence: 1870, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1880, Nevins, Vigo, Indiana, USA
Children:
- 1. Milford Norton was born Dec 1851, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died 9 Mar 1921, Bremen, Cook, Illinois, USA; was buried 14 Mar 1921.
- Allen Norton was born 1856, Indiana, USA; died 8 Dec 1873, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Martha Norton was born 1859, Indiana, USA.
- Nancy Anne Norton was born Abt 1860, Indiana, USA; died Feb 1895.
- Rosella Norton was born 1862, Indiana, USA.
- Lovina Norton was born 1864, Indiana, USA.
- Walter Edward Norton was born 30 May 1868, Vigo, Indiana, USA; died 17 Aug 1944, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Stewart Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- William F. Norton was born 1870, Indiana, USA.
- James H. Norton was born 1872, Indiana, USA.
- Joseph Norton was born 1874, Indiana, USA.
- George Norton was born 1878, Indiana, USA.
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Generation: 3
| 4. | Chesley Norton was born Abt 1805, North Carolina, USA (son of Sarah Norton). Other Events:
- Race: Black
- Reference Number: 4965
- Residence: 1830, Randolph, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1840, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1870, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 40; Census Post Office: Terre Haute
Chesley married Elizabeth 'Betsy' Walden 17 Feb 1822, Randolph, North Carolina, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Eaton Walden and Nanny Evans) was born Abt 1803, North Carolina, USA; died , USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 6. |  James Roberts was born 1800, North Carolina, USA (son of Ishmael Roberts and Silvia). Other Events:
- Race: Mulatto
- Reference Number: 1736
- Residence: 1830, Monroe, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1840, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1850, Otter Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; Age: 61
Notes:
James, born say 1800, married Polly Stewart, 12 February 1822 Chatham County bond, Thomas Cottrell bondsman. He purchased 62-1/2 acres in Chatham County on the south side of the Cape Fear River on Bush Creek from his father for $150 on 8 February 1825 [DB AB:166] and sold land by deed proved in Chatham County on Wednesday, May 1837 session [Minutes 1833-41].
James married Polly Stewart 12 Feb 1822, Chatham, North Carolina, USA. Polly was born , North Carolina, USA; died , USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 7. | Polly Stewart was born , North Carolina, USA; died , USA. Other Events:
Notes:
Died:
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Generation: 4
| 9. | Sarah Norton was born 1770, North Carolina, USA (daughter of Elizabeth Norton). Other Events:
- Reference Number: 10715
- Residence: 1790, Randolph, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1800, Randolph, North Carolina, USA
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| 10. | Eaton Walden was born 1767, Mecklenburg, Virginia, USA (son of John Chavis Walden, Jr and Rebecca Ruth Chavers); died 1850, Owen, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Race: Black
- Reference Number: 1857
- Residence: 1790, Warren, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1800, Halifax, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1830, Randolph, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1840, Washington, Owen, Indiana, USA
- Residence: 1850, Washington, Owen, Indiana, USA; Age: 83
Eaton married Nanny Evans 20 Dec 1788, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA. Nanny (daughter of Charles Evans and Susanna Beaumont) was born 1772, Mecklenburg, Virginia, USA; died 1842, Washington, Indiana, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 11. | Nanny Evans was born 1772, Mecklenburg, Virginia, USA (daughter of Charles Evans and Susanna Beaumont); died 1842, Washington, Indiana, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 1858
- Residence: 1800, Halifax, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1830, Randolph, North Carolina, USA
Children:
- Winney Walden was born Abt 1805, North Carolina, USA; died 11 Jan 1896, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried Jan 1896, Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Richard Walden was born 1790, Virginia, USA; died 7 Apr 1842, Owen, Indiana, USA; was buried , Spencer, Owen, Indiana, USA.
- Morgan Walden was born 1798, North Carolina, USA.
- Nancy Walden was born 1801, North Carolina, USA; died 1850.
- Wiley Walden was born 1810, North Carolina, USA; died 14 Jun 1892, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; was buried 17 Jun 1892, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA.
- John Walden was born 1816, North Carolina, USA.
- 5. Elizabeth 'Betsy' Walden was born Abt 1803, North Carolina, USA; died , USA.
- Jesse Walden was born 1795, Virginia, USA.
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| 12. | Ishmael Roberts was born 1750, Chatham, North Carolina, USA (son of Margaret Roberts); died 1826, Chatham, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
- Ethnicity: Native American
- Tribe: Lumbee
- Reference Number: 1723
- Residence: 1765, Lincoln, North Carolina, USA
- _MILT: Between 7 Jun 1777 and Jun 1778; Colonel Abraham Shepherd's Company at Head Quarters Valley Forge - Revolutionary War
- Residence: 1780, North Carolina, USA; Dobbs County
- Residence: 1782, North Carolina, USA; Dobbs County Early Tsx List,
- Residence: 1790, Robeson, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1800, Robeson, North Carolina, USA
- Residence: 1810, Chatham, North Carolina, USA
- Probate: 12 Jul 1826, Chatham, North Carolina, USA
Notes:
ROBERDS/ROBERTS In what may have been the first act of violence by a
Lumbee Indian in current Robeson County, James Roberts shot James
McCullam five times 29 Jan. 1754, in S1. Martin's Parish, Bladen County.
The murder came to court I Feb. 1754 (Secretary of State, Committee of
Claims, Coroner's Inquests, 1738-1775, SS 316, N.C. Archives). Reuben
Roberts of Bladen sold two tracts of 310 acres north and northeast of
Drowning Creek to Thomas Owen 6 July 1773 (Deed Book B, 29-30). He
lived near Soloman James and Richard Smith. Ishmael Roberts, probably
Lumbee, was living on Saddletree Swamp near Jacob Blount, Phillip Blount,
Robert Willis, John Baggett and Thomas Ivey before 12 July 1788 (Deed
Book A, 282-283). He bought 185 additional acres from Lewis Jenkins 15
Oct. 1790 east of Saddletree Swamp (B, 166-168). He appears on Saddletree
Swamp in the 1790 census. Ishmael patented 100 acres east of Raft Swamp
adjacent to fellow Lumbee Thomas Jackson, Lewis and Edward Jenkins 26
Nov. 1789 (B, 314, H, 109-110). Two Roberts families, Sampson and
Etheldred, age 55-100, and both Mulatoe were in the 1830 census of
Robeson. Several families named Roberts, all listed as mulatto, appear near
each other in the 1850 census close to the Lumbee families of Hammonds,
Revels, Briant, Jacobs and Chavis. All six families were listed as mulatoe.
Roberts was listed as an Indian name in Lumberton e township in the 1870
census of Robeson. The name was self-identified as Indian in the 1900
Census of Robeson. One family was listed in the 1900 Indian Census
Schedule in Robeson County. Lucy Roberts Harris, daughter of White Troy
Roberts Jr. of Lumberton, came from an affluent family. Her brother, Larry
Roberts, was a longtime police chief in Pembroke. Roberts was listed as
Indian in the 1930 census of Pembroke Township. Death records show the
Indian name of Roberts in 1916 in Lumberton and Pembroke townships.
They were related to the Oxendine and Smith families. See Native Visions,
Lumberton, N.C., August, 2005, for Lumberton family of Roberts. Cited at
Deep Branch Cemetery and New Bethel Methodist Church cemetery,
Fairmont, by Jane Blanks Barnhill, Sacred Grounds, 2007, a listing of 162
Lumbee cemeteries of Robeson County.
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Ishmael1 Roberts, born say 1755, was head of a Robeson County household of 10 "other free" in 1790 [NC:50], 15 in 1800 [NC:415], and 14 in Chatham County in 1810 [NC:195]. He received pay for Revolutionary War service from 3 June 1777 to 3 June 1778 as a private in Colonel Abraham Shepherd's Company. Colonel Shepherd gave him a certificate which stated that he was furloughed at Head Quarters Valley Forge to come home with me who was Inlisted in my Regement for the Term of three years - and Returned Home with me [NCGSJ XV:105]. He entered 100 acres in Robeson County on the north side of Saddle Tree Swamp on 5 September 1787, 100 acres on the north side of Five Mile Branch and 100 acres on the east side of Raft Swamp on 14 February 1788, and 100 acres on the west side of Five Mile Branch on 22 January 1793 [Pruitt, Land Entries: Robeson County, I:7, 13, 70]. He sold land by deed proved in Robeson County on 5 January 1801 and purchased land by deed proved in Robeson County on 6 July 1803 [Minutes I:130, 256]. On 18 February 1804 he purchased two tracts of land in Chatham County, one of 250 acres on Bear and Bush Creeks for $450, a second of 100 acres on the waters of the Cape Fear River for $150, and he purchased a further 57 acres on Bush Creek for 75 pounds on 9 January 1805 [DB N:456, 437; M:641]. The sheriff sold 260 acres of this land on 12 February 1808 for a debt of about 16 pounds [DB P:118]. However, Ishmael repurchased this same 260 acre tract for about 17 pounds on 14 August 1811. And he purchased 102 acres on Little Lick Creek on 10 April 1818 [DB S:26; V:131]. On 8 and 12 February 1825 he sold (signing) most of his land to his sons: Richard, James, and Aaron [DB AB:166, 221; AA:275]. By his 12 July 1826 Chatham County will, he left his land on the west side of Bush Creek to his wife Silvey and then to his grandson Ishmael, oldest son of Zachariah. He also left one dollar to a list of persons, no relationship stated (who were identified as his children in his May 1829 Estate Papers), and he willed that his land where John Archie (Archer, his son-in-law) was living was to be sold and divided among his wife and a second list of persons (which included members of the first list), no relationship stated, and left $20 for the schooling of his grandson Thomas Roberts [CR 022.801.16]. When the will was offered for probate in the Tuesday, May 1827 session of the Chatham County court, the jury ruled that it was his will as regards his personal property but not as regards his real estate [Minutes 1822-27, n.p.]. A committee was appointed to settle the problem, and their report was recorded in the Monday, May 1828 session [Minutes 1828-33]. His estate papers listed seventeen persons and called them his children, but at least two of them, Ishmael and Elias, were probably his grandchildren [North Carolina Archives Estate Papers, Chatham County].
Ishmael married Silvia. was born Abt 1760, Orange, North Carolina, USA; died Aft 1826, Chatham, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet]
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| 13. | Silvia was born Abt 1760, Orange, North Carolina, USA; died Aft 1826, Chatham, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
Children:
- Zachariah Roberts was born 1782.
- Kinchen Roberts was born Abt 1785, Virginia, USA; died 30 Jun 1870, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Mary Polly Roberts was born Abt 1790, North Carolina, USA; died 25 Jul 1876, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried 1876, Roberts Cemetery, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Jonathan Roberts was born 1784, North Carolina, USA.
- Elizabeth Roberts was born 1788; died , USA.
- Benjamin F. Roberts was born 1792, North Carolina, USA; died 5 Jul 1880, Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA; was buried , Lost Creek, Vigo, Indiana, USA.
- Elias Roberts was born 1793, North Carolina, USA; died 31 Jul 1866, Orange, Indiana, USA.
- Aaron Roberts was born Abt 1794, North Carolina, USA; died , Washington, Owen, Indiana, USA.
- Margaret Roberts was born Bef 1800, Robeson, North Carolina, USA.
- Pardon Boin "Bowen" Roberts was born 1800, North Carolina, USA.
- 6. James Roberts was born 1800, North Carolina, USA.
- Richard Roberts was born 1802, North Carolina, USA; died Yes, date unknown.
- Delphy Roberts was born Abt 1807, North Carolina, USA.
- Ethelred Roberts was born Abt 1780, North Carolina, USA; died , Orange, Indiana, USA.
- Lewis Roberts died , USA.
- Rebecca Roberts died , USA.
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