County of Christian, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical. Edited by William Henry Perrin. F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884, p. 392. Hopkinsville City and Precinct. ROBERT W. NORWOOD was born in Jackson, Tenn., January 10, 1847. His parents, Ignatius W. and Elizabeth (Huston) Norwood, were each born in Tennessee, and are still living in Jackson. Robert W. is the youngest of four children born to these parents, all of whom are living, the eldest three living in Jackson, Tenn., viz.: John H., Samuel L. and Sarah E., wife of E. C. Johnson. Robert W. was reared in Jackson, and before seventeen years old became a soldier in the Confederate Army, serving about one year, or until the close of the war, as a member of a Tennessee regiment, participating in the engagements at Columbia, Franklin and Nashville, Tenn., and Selma, Ala. In 1867 he became agent for the Southern Express Company, and has been in their employ continously ever since, and located at Hopkinsville since 1872. On the 5th of November, 1872, he married Miss Dora, daughter of Hiram C. and Mary A. Vaughan. She was born in Montgomery County, Tenn., November, 1848. They had had four children: Bessie V., Mary L. (deceased), Robert W. and Norma Hamlin. Mr. Norwood is an acceptable member of the Masonic order, Knights of Honor, Knights of Pythias, and the Golden Cross. Norwood Huston Johnson Vaughan Hamlin = Montgomery-TN AL http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/christian/norwood.rw.txt