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Alice Elliot Norton
b.23 Dec 1865 Ripley, Tippah, Mississippi, United States
d.25 Sep 1948 Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States
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m. 28 Oct 1883
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Alice Elliot Norton's family lived 10 households away from William Lee Smith's family (HM & Sarah Smith) in 1880. William & Alice married in Coryell County, Texas. Marriage information. NORTON, Miss. ALICE E. SMITH, W.L. 28 OCT. 1883 Coryell County, Texas Marriage Book: D2 287
James W. NORTON Self M Male W 46 TN School Teaching IL TN Nancy C. NORTON Wife M Female W 44 MS House Keeping AL SC William C. NORTON Son M Male W 19 MS At School TN MS Elizabeth NORTON Dau S Female W 14 MS At School TN MS Alice E. NORTON Dau S Female W 13 MS At School TN MS Jennie NORTON Dau S Female W 8 MS At School TN MS Dora F. NORTON Dau S Female W 5 MS At School TN MS Source Information: Census Place E.D. 26, Coryell, Texas Family History Library Film 1255298 NA Film Number T9-1298 Page Number 482B Also at: Coryell County, Texas, 7th PCT Heritage Quest Series: T9 Roll: 1298 Page: 482
Notes from Barbara Dalton Jones: By the 1910 census, John H. Williams is no longer with the family, and Norton is 20, Gertie is 14 and Lela is 11. Minnie is no longer listed with the family either (We think she married a man named John Tuttle, but I haven't found them on the census yet.) Alice Williams and her children were living next door to Gilbert and Myrtle on the 1910 census and she was listed as a widow. Then in 1920 and 1930, she was with Gilbert and Myrtle. But I still think that is John H. Williams in Post Oak Cemetery. That's where the Nortons and Daltons were burying their dead until the Daltons moved to Dublin and the Norton girls disappeared behind their married names. So Alice Norton Smith Williams must have kicked John Williams out prior to 1910. Grandson, Reuben Dalton remembers his grandmother Williams as very enterprising. Because she was widowed early in life, and became a single parent after four more children, she had to earn a living. She did this in various ways. She had a boarding house in Breckenridge for about 1-1/2 years. She returned to Waco. Later, she had a cafe in Ranger during the oil boom era during a time when her son-in-law, Horace West, was working in the oil fields. She had a reputation for a "good feed." Yet again, she also had a rooming house in Waco at another time, when Reuben was about 8 or 9 years old, or around 1920. References
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