Z 0783.000 Roberton (Norvelle, Sr.) Autobiography

Norvelle Robertson, Sr., was born in Rockingham, Virginia, on May 22, 1765, and died in Covington County, Mississippi, on September 16, 1855. Robertson moved to Georgia in 1786 where he lived until he moved his family to Covington County in 1817. Between 1818 and 1840 he was pastor of the Providence Baptist Church in Covington County. The original manuscript was completed in 1846. One item in this collection is a xerox copy of a typescript of the manuscript prepared by Walter Welsh. The typescript contains:

• Robertson's autobiography
• an addenda, "The Closing Scenes," written by Robertson's grandson, N. L. Robertson, in 1911
• notes on the Robertson family prepared by W. P. Chambers, a Hattiesburg genealogist, in 1913
• an article from the Laurel Leader-Call dated September 30, 1938, about the placement of a marker on Robertson's grave by the Daughters of the American Revolution
• two articles written by Tommie Jean Brown in the September and November issues of Gunshot, published by the Masonite Corporation, Laurel, dated 1963.

Series Identification:

1. Autobiography typescript (photocopy), n.d. 52 pp.
2. Autobiography notebook (holographic), 1913. 132 pp.