Norman Goree Kittrell

b. 28 July 1849, d. 1927
  • Norman Goree Kittrell was born on 28 July 1849 in Greensboro, Hale County, Alabama.
  • Pleasant Williams Kittrell and Mary Frances Goree appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Greene County, Alabama, living next to Pleasant's sister Sarah Goree.. Other members of the household included Norman Goree Kittrell, Mary A. Norman and Ellen H. Kittrell.
  • Pleasant Williams Kittrell and Mary Frances Goree appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Huntsville PO, Walker County, Texas. Other members of the household included Norman Goree Kittrell, William Henry Kittrell, Lilla Ann Kittrell, Lucy Bettie Kittrell, Sallie Langston Kittrell and Mary A. Norman.
  • The following appeared on 3 July 1875 in The Galveston Daily News: (Huntsville, July 2, 1875) The surviving members of the Hood Brigade present at the reunion met in the Cough House at 8 A. M.
         . . . Fifth Texas -- P. J. Goree, H. G. Hame, J. W. Neighbors, L. J. Goree, Jim A. Dickie, T. A. Birdwell, T. A. Bowden, A. C. Woodall, W. G. Smith, W. R. Rome, W. J. Smither, J. G. Burden, Robert Burns, W. W. Alston, Calhoun Kearse, J. H. Parker, M. A. Lamplain A. S. Martin, E. M. Berry, James B. Assek Goree, W. P. Wilson, W. G. Coleman, Berry Hicks, W. I. Sandel, R. A. Brantley, L. A. Cox, A. M. Pinson, F. M. Polland, W. J. Towns, A. J. Decapie, W. B. Campbell, L. Gillam, R. a. Park, F. A. Charles, E. J. Adickes, Walter Keenan, C. T. Hull, R. S. Neblett, Jeff C. Hayson, Wm. T. Hill and A. T. Hill, Gen. J. B. Robertson and Capt. Thos. J. Goree, of Longstreet's staff.
         . . .
         Judge Benton Randolph welcomed them to the hospitalities of Huntsville in a short speech.
         . . .
         Norman Kittrell, Esq., of Galveston, replied on behalf of the Lone Star Rifles and did himself and his comrades credit.
         General Robertson closed the speech-making, when the soldiers and ladies were invited to dinner.
         The people of this vicinity had a profusion of everything good, prepared invitingly, and the guests did it ample justice. It was a good, old-fashioned out-of-doors barbecue and dinner.
         The veterans will meet nowhere in the State with a heartiereception than this of to-day.
  • Norman Goree Kittrell died in 1927.
  • For additional biographical information, see The Texas Handbook Online.
  • Last Edited: 18 Jun 2011