RESEARCHERS:

 Looking through all this interesting information inspires me to ask you to 
rejoice with me and also to help me if you can:
 
   After months of searching I have finally located my g-g-g grandfather's 
medical degree:
 
 DR. SAMUEL EDWIN NORTON (1816-1877) graduated from the Philadelphia College 
of Physicians in 1859. This is now part of the University of Pennsylvania.
 
  BUT he was BORN in either Williamsburg or Georgetown Counties and I STILL 
cannot locate the death notice or burial place of either of his parents 
(whose names I do NOT know but who would have BOTH died ca 1818-1820. He was 
the youngest of four children then went to live with relatives (probably his 
sister ANNE NORTON RENTZ's family)until he grew up and married Julia Justina 
Alston of Halifax County, NC. They had children in the Georgetown area and 
removed to Montgomery AL abbout 1850 which is WHY I could not find his 
medical degree in SC. 
 
 ANY help finding the elder NORTONS of SOUTH CAROLINA would be GREATLY 
appreciated. I realize many records were lost during the WBTS but they have 
to be BURIED somewhere. They were Episcopalians, and in fact, during the war, 
Dr. Norton preached (as a layman, I assume, as I am sure he never attended 
seminary) at ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH in Montgomery. But where IN SC his 
PARENTS could be buried, I don't know.
 
 Thanks for anything useful,
 
 Carole
 Caroline Burnett Cook
 dtr of
 Caroline Beasley Norton
 dtr of
 Eldridge Greenwood Norton
 son of
 Lt. James Hudson Norton, CSA, AL 1ST CAV.
 son of
 DR. SAMUEL EDWIN NORTON & JULIA JUSTINA ALSTON
 SON OF
 
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