Biographies   Spartanburg County - South Carolina Genealogy Trails WILLIAM T. NORRIS is a leading merchant of Detroit, in and about which city his life has been passed thus far. His father was one of the strong and active factors of Red River county for many years, identifying himself therewith in 1858, at which time he brought his young family hither from the Spartansburg district, in South Carolina. He settled less than two miles south of the village of Detroit, and continued to be identified with the community until death claimed him, witnessing many changes in the growth and experience of the young town. He was Major John N. Norris, and was born at Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1826, a son of Major William Norris, native of Scotland. The family is one of the Colonial ones of America, and members of its earlier American generations shared in the hardships and risked the dangers to life and liberty as Continental soldiers in the War of the Revolution. Major John Nuckols Norris was the son of William and Sallie (Nuckols) Norris, both of whom were born and reared and ended their days in the old Palmetto state. Their children were as follows: Sue, who married Captain Frank Anderson and passed her days among the scenes of her childhood. Miss Julia E. died in Canes county, Texas, in 1908; William T. died unmarried of wounds received in the battle of Seven Pines, while in the Confederate service; and the youngest was John Nuckols, the father of William T. of this review.  A History of Texas and Texans by Francis White Johnson, Ernest William Winkler, 1920, pg 1256  BACK to Spartanburg County SC Genealogy Trails © all rights - reserved to the original submitter