This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Norvell Sutherland Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/EBB.2ACE/2611.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I would be extremely interested in doing some extensive note comparing with you. I think you may have found one of the unidentified children of Nathaniel Norvell (March 07, 1772 in VA - 1870 in Holt Co., MO) & Nancy Ann Carvin. I wasn't previously aware of a Francis (Norvell) Sutherland buried in the Lynn Camp Cemetery. Nathaniel served in the War of 1812, he enlisted September 28, 1814 in the Volunteer Mountain Gunman, under Captain Hutchings and Colonel Williamson. Nathaniel first appears in the Goochland County tax records in 1791, when he voted for William Norvell as a delegate to the General Assembly. by 1808 he was living in Claiborne Co., TN, where other Norvells also lived at this time. He later moved to Knox Co., TN by 1811 where he remained until about 1819. By 1824 the family had moved to Pulaski Co., KY at White Oak Creek. By 1840, the Norvells, the Jaspers, the Roys, and other Pulaski families had begun to plan to move to Missouri to the Platte area. The birthplaces of (their son) Carvin's children indicate that they were in Missouri by 1845, and it is believed that Nathaniel and Nancy moved with Carvin to Missouri. Nathaniel later went to live with his son John after Nancy died in Platte county, where she was buried. According to researcher Paul Larkham, Nathaniel was "a rather tall and large, rawboned, complected and sort of good looking man." They had thirteen children. Not all are known to me at this time. The ones I have heard of are: Spencer, Carvin, Edward M., Sarah, John, Nancy Jane, Elizabeth, Rachel Armilda, John C., and America Ann. (I realize that I have two Johns down, but they've got different birthdates and that's what I have in my notes right now.)