Z 0783.000
ROBERTSON (NORVELLE, SR.) AUTOBIOGRAPHY
1913; 1963; n.d.
Microfilm copy must be used. (MF Roll # 35998)
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:
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Robertson's autobiography
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an addenda, "The Closing Scenes," written by Robertson's grandson, N. L.
Robertson, in 1911
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notes on the Robertson family prepared by W. P. Chambers, a Hattiesburg
genealogist, in 1913
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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
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two articles written by Tommie Jean Brown in the September and November
issues of Gunshot, published by the Masonite Corporation, Laurel,
dated 1963.
A second item in the collection is a handwritten copy of the autobiography
with the addenda, "The Closing Scenes," notes on Robertson, and notes on
the Welsh family prepared by W. P. Chambers in 1913. From the handwriting
it appears that the material in the notebook was copied by Chambers. The
autobiography covers the period 1765 to 1842 when Robertson's wife died,
and is mostly concerned with Robertson's farming and blacksmithing ventures
and his religious life.
Series Identification:
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Autobiography typescript (photocopy), n.d. 52 pp.
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Autobiography notebook (holographic), 1913. 132 pp.
