NORRED, WILLIAM was born March 9, 1809, in Loudon county, Va. He was married in 1834 in that county to Elizabeth E. Dowdall, who was born there March 9, 1814. They lived in Frederick county, Md., until they had two children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill, arriving Nov. 6, 1838,and settled three miles northeast of Rochester, at the mills of Darling & Baker, where a child was born. Of their three children:

CHARLES W., born April 11, 1836, in Maryland, died in Sangamon county in his third year.

SAMUEL T., born July 6, 1838, in Maryland, died in Sangamon county in his fourteenth year.

CHARLES H., born Jan. 19, 1842, in Sangamon county. He was a medical student, but laid aside his books in Aug., 1862 and enlisted in Co. __ 114th Ill. Inf. He was placed in charge of a medical dispensary for the regiment and later of a hospital, served until the close of the war, when he was honorably discharged attended McDowell college at St. Louis, and graduated there. He was married in Logan county to Elizabeth Dalbey. They have two children, CHARLES ELMER and WILLIAM ASBURY. Dr. Norred commenced practice at Dawson, but removed to Middletown, Logan county, where he now resides.

Mrs. Elizabeth E. Norred died Sept. 1, 1843, in Sangamon county, and William Norred was married in 1845, in Loudon County, Va, to Mary Ann Daneil, who was born in that county April 22, 1820. She died Oct. 21, 1851, leaving one child: JOHN W., born June 17, 1847, in Sangamon county. He married Mary Richardson and lives in Middletown, Logan county, Illinois.

William Norred was married Dec. 18, 1853 in Sangamon county, to Mrs. Martha Dowdall, whose maiden name was Enlow, a native of Washington county, Pa. She has one child by her first marriage, Silas R. Dowdall. Mr. And Mrs. Norred have four children: FENTON M., LAURETTA A.; MARY E.; and ELIZABETH C., and reside half a mile northwest of Dawson, Sangamon county, Illinois