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    1. [KYBIOS] BIO #11256 - KINZEA H. NORRIS - BOURBON CO
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    3. NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. Additional note: In transcribing these biographies from the following book, I have found that a huge number of Kentuckians coming to Pike Co MO came from Bourbour Co. 11256 BOURBON CO – KINZEA H. NORRIS – Norris, Stevens, Bankhead, Norton #11256 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa; Mills and Company, 1883. Pp. 584-5. Kinzea H. Norris, grocer and commission merchant, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, January 16,1831. His father, William J. Norris, was a native of the same state, and a planter by occupation; he immigrated to Missouri in 1832, and settled in Canton, Lewis county, then in 1836 to Jackson county; then in 1841 he went to Topeka, Kansas, where he now lives. The maiden name of the mother of our subject was Sarah Stevens, a native of Kentucky; she died in 1855. Our subject was educated at the State University at Columbia, Missouri. In 1856 he engaged in mercantile business in Weston, Missouri; leaving there in 1858 he went to St. Joseph where he engaged in business until the war broke out, during which he spent five years on the plains and in the mountains. In 1865 he came to Clarksville and established his present business. In 1854 he was married to Miss Martha J. Bankhead, daughter of John M. Bankhead, an old settler of this county. They have five children: Lizzie, Mollie, Ellen B., Charles A., and John R. Mr. Norton [sic] is a member of the I.O.O.F. KYBIOGRAPHIES Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybiographies KYRESEARCH: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.tips/mb.ashx

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