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).
This site now hosted by Kim T.
EMAIL ME (No research requests please. I have no further data to give
other than what is placed on this website)
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.
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
