The Russellville Democrat., 1890-10-23
Mrs. susan Fl. Norris.


 Died. it Norristown, Pope County, Ark, at the residence of her grandson Hon. Joseph Brearly, on the 27th Of September, 1890, Mrs. Susan II. Nor ris, in the 9Sth year of he- age. Mrs. Norris was born in Elizabethtown, N. J.. on the 4th day of Nov. ,l792, she was united in marriage to MT. Samuel Nor ris at that place and removed with her husband thereafter and settled at Dwight Mission, in Pope county, in 1880, where few Missionaries of the presbyterian church under the direc- tion, leadership and auspices Of the Key. Cephas Washbourne, minister of said denomination with his family and little Spartan band of few friends and their families located in the year 1919, and gave to the place the name Of Dwight, spot then In The midst of the Cherokee Indians and a wilderness which was then occupied and subjected to the warlike and hos tile raids of the PawDee, Comanche. Osage and other savage Indians. not unfrequehtly making war upon each other and the inveterate and deadly foe of the white man, which rendered the homes of Rev. Cephas Washbourne and his little colony of friends one of deep anxiety and danger. MT. Wash bourne's family consisted of six child cen all of whom are now dead, save and except the ss;S.ers:55 s55ii,s and noble little christian le2y, Mrs. Corinne Thompson, who is now living in Rus sellvilie and who was the first white child born at Dwight Mission in 1921, and who is now so well and generally known to every one by the loving sobriauet of .sLittIe Grand Ma" Mir. Washbourne had one son, Edward, who died just as he was merging into man. hood, who, had he lived few years longer would have occupied a promi- nent position among the most noted artists Of the age. He it was that paint ed the world renowned pictures of the "Arkansas Traveller one among his very first efforts in the art, and attract ed so much notice at the time. He painted..a few other pieces and portraits subsequently,, which were regarded as very fine and exhibited superior talent and ability. Mr. Washbourne moved from Old Dwight to New Dwight in the Cherokee Nation in 1927 or 1928 soon after the treaty. made bv Maj Love ly with the Cherokees, which ceded all the territory now embracing Wash- ington, Crawford, Fraaklin, Johnson, l Pope and as far down as Point Remove creek in this county, to theUnited States | in exchange for the territory they now occupy west of these counties, which treaty and cession has always been known as and called Lovely's Purchase. 1 The name of the creek known as Point Remove in Conway county derived its name from the fact that it was from that PoINT east they claimed title when 1 they assembled and the treaty was made and they were to REMOVE west. to the territory now occupied by them.
 Rev. A. W. Lyon, brother of Mrs. Norris, came to Dwight as & minister and as classical teacher in 1880 and taught a school there, the writer being one of his students. aud boarding with him and Mrs. Norris i'll that year. i Among others now remembered were Hon. Ben Duvall of Fort Smith, and yet living there, Lorenzo D. Quinn of McLean's Bottom, Logan county, Franklin Desha of Batesville, and Augustus ". Scott, all of whom are now deceased. Mir. Lyon removed from Dwight to Batesyille, Independence county, in 1882 or 1883, and was ap- pointed Receiver Of Public moneys in the land office at that place, which of- flee he held for many years, trayeling by land or in a skiff down White river to it's junction with the Mississippi river where he sometimes found asteam boat, then a novelty almost, and car- rying with him to New Orleans the government funds to place them in the U. s. depository at that point. He re- moved to California in 1882 and died at Fresno City, in that State, in the year 1889 aged, 92.
 Mrs. Norris with husband removed from Dwight in 1885 to point on the Arkansas river opposite Dardanelle Rock, giving to the place the name of Norristown, where he died in lS56. This place afterwards came within one vote of being made the seat Of govern ment of the State of Arkansas, and was at one time the county seat. The first place at which the court was held in Pope county was at Dwight, the second place at Bellinger's house near Scotia, the third place was at Norristown, the fourth place was at Dover, and the fifth last and present county seat being at Russellyille. Mr.and Mrs.Norris had two children, son, George, who died at Dwight and daughter, Mary Ann, who became the wife of Dr. Joseph II. Brearly, both deceased, and the father and mother of Joseph and David George Brearly, both living, the former at Norrisiown in whose house she died, and whose kind and unremitting love and attention, with that Of his wife and family to their good old grand mother In her greatly advanced and feeble old age, are deserving the greatest order of praise.
 The writer knew Mir. and Mrs. Nor ris from the time of their advent into Pope County in 1880, until thelr death. period of sixty years. Mrs. Norris age, perhaps, at the time of her death, exceeded that of any other person in the county and certainly was one of the original settlers at Dwight quite soon after the creation of Pope county. She was an ardent, jealous and devoted member of the Old School Presbyteri- an church. Her demise, although near ly century, is greatly deplored by a large circle of loving relatives, friends and a community that has known