Kentucky: A History of the State. Perrin, Battle & Kniffin, 6th ed.,1887,
Spencer Co.

SOLOMON R. NORMAN was born in Spencer County, Ky., in 1823, and is a son of
Abner Norman, who at the age of four years came with his parents to
Kentucky from North Carolina, in which latter State he was born in 1789.
Abner's parents were Isaac and Hannah (Gage) Norman, and on their arrival
in Kentucky settled on Elk Creek in Spencer County.  The father was of
French descent, and the mother, Hannah Gage, was a relative of Gen. Gage,
of Revolutionary fame, and of English descent.  Abner Norman was a farmer
and horticulturist of the highest order, and died in Kentucky January 2,
1856.  The mother of Solomon R. Norman, Mrs. Frances Norman, was a daughter
of Solomon and Mary (Northmore) Redman, who was born in Virginia in 1788,
and died in Kentucky in 1764 [sic].  Solomon R. Norman was the fourth in a
family of five children:  Amelia, Mary, Martha, Solomon and Sarah.  He was
reared to farming, and is now the owner of 400 acres in the precinct where
his grandparents first settled.  He has been a leading citizen in all
internal improvements, educational institutions and public and private
charities of the county.  He has for twenty years been a justice of the
peace, and for the same length of time a Master Mason.  For thirty years
he has been a member of the Baptist Church at Elk Creek, established in
1794, of which church Isaac Norman was one of the first officers.  In 1846
Solomon R. Norman married Lucinda W., the only daughter of Richard
Van Dyke, of Spencer County, and of Dutch descent, and are now owning and
occupying land deeded to her grandfather in 1792.  To the marriage of Mr.
and Mrs. Norman have been born fourteen children, only five of whom are now
living: Richard V., Abner E., Amelia A., Mary E. and Martha F. Norman; the
rest nearly all died in infancy.

Norman Gage Northmore Redman Van_Dyke
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NC VA