Joseph Norvell
Birth 16 Jun 1793
Garrard County, Kentucky, USA
Death 7 Jan 1847 (aged 53)
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Burial: Nashville City Cemetery
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
JOSEPH NORVELL born Garrard Co., Ky., 1793; died Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 7, 1847; apoplexy. [Legible on the tombstone of Joseph Norvell in old city cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.: Born June 1793 Died January 1847]
He wielded great political power as the editor of the Nashville Whig newspaper that he had purchased with his brother Moses about 1812. He sold his interest in the paper before August 1817 and repurchased it in 1826. From 1819 to 1823, he was City Recorder and later served as City Treasurer. About 1835 he published the American Presbyterian and in 1845 served as a pallbearer at the funeral of Andrew Jackson. He was a Mason and served as the Grand Master of the State Lodge of Tennessee. On March 23, 1823 he married Agnes Walker, but they had no children. He is buried in the Old City Cemetery.
DEATH OF BRO. NORVELL, P. G. M. OF TENN.
Nashville, 2ls< Jan., 1847.
BKO. MOORE : — We have been again called on to mourn the loss of an excellent and beloved Brother, in the death of Major JOSEPH NORVELL, Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Tennessee. He departed this life on the 7th inst., after a very few hours illness.
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