WELCOME TO NORTON COUNTY, KS Genealogy and History Finding Ancestors wherever their trails led! Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy Our goal is to transcribe as much data for this website as we can, which will hopefully help you trace your ancestors from this county. Check your attics! Dust off your family scrapbooks! We're looking for DATA for this site!!! WHAT TYPE OF DATA WE'RE LOOKING TO ADD TO THIS SITE: We're looking for the "raw data" folks can use to build their family trees (rather than the actual trees themselves). This includes the transcribed data from the vital records, biographies from the county histories as well as the county history information itself, transcriptions of obituaries, burials data from cemetery trompings and/or readings, the data from military pensions and other service records; enumerations from census years, any newspaper gleanings for the family members including birth announcements, marriage announcements, death notices/obits and anything in between. To help us get the data online quickly, it's very helpful to send the data transcribed (rather than sending in a graphic). EMAIL ME (No research requests please. I have no further data to give other than what is placed on this website) This County is available for adoption! We're looking for people to put genealogical and historical data online for the free use of all researchers, visit our Volunteer Information page. Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Churches Death Records Directories History Land Records Marriages Military Newspaper Items Obituaries Schools Wills & Probates Soddy in Norton, KS Norton County was organized in 1872. It was named for the Capt. Orloff Norton, of the 15th Kansas Cavalry, who was killed in the Civil War. Besides the cities of Norton, Almena, Lenora and Edmond, the communities of Calvert, Clayton, Dellvale, Densmore, Devizes, New Almelo, Oronoque, Reager and Rockwell lie within the boundaries of Norton County. TOWNSHIPS Almena-District 4 Center-District 1 Harrison-District 6 Highland-District 2 Solomon-District 3   CITIES Norton Almena Lenora Edmond Site Updates March 2013: Bios for Boddy, Bros, Burnham, Lichty, Safrord, Schesser, Sevier, Sleffel, Walters. Directories - Business Directory taken from Norton Handbook Dec 2012: Obit for COOPER July 2012: numerous "Gossip" News items, bio for THOMPSON, Marr. announcement for HARRIS-KING May 2012: 1917 Business Directory, political news, weather news, Obits for REED, LOCKARD, SEBELIUS, List of Pensioners on the Roll in 1883 Jan 2012: Obit for SWEET Nov 2011: death notices for CONKLIN, HANNA, Accident news for MARTIN Sep 2011: obits for RING, HOLSINGER June 2011: Burials in Oronoque Cemetery Apr 2011: Bios for MCDANIEL, GREEN, FELT, JANES, BLANDING, BOWER, RAY; Birth/Death/Marriage Records for BEST, SHEPARD, PIERCE; History of the 1st Methodist Episcopal church in Norton Jan 2011: Newspaper Gleanings; death notices for PETERSON, POWELL, DECKER, CONKLIN, VIRMOND, SHUMAKE, SHUMWAY, STUMP; CONNET-LEPER Marriage, PIGG-HOGG; FRY-WILSON marriages; Lots of political news items, weather news story, community news items; sick list news; Crime news for BAKER, WHITE; 1877 Fire. More of the 1894 History added.... History of the Public Schools in Norton County; Bios for DYATT, HARWI, RAY, CAMPBELL; News Item for Dr. TILLMAN (under Community News); "Pioneer Life" news articles; News story on Smallpox epidemic SEARCH OUR SITES (New items may not show up yet) Travel the Trails! Visit some of our other websites... Genealogy Trails Our National Site Illinois Trails Our Mother Site Kansas Trails Our State Site       Adjacent Counties Furnas County, Neb Northeast Harlan County, Neb North Phillips County, Kan East       Decatur County, Kan West Graham County, Kan South Sheridan County, Kan Southwest Search Our Sites| About Us Genealogy Trails' Volunteer Information - Join Us Visitors Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.