Historical Marker Number: 11501
Marker Title: B. H. Norsworthy
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Index Entry: Norsworthy, B. H.
City: Orange
County: Orange
Year Marker Erected: 1980
Marker Location: Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson & Border St., Orange
Marker Text:
(Nov. 26, 1838-Feb. 21, 1901) Alabama native B. H. Norsworthy migrated to Texas in 1860. During the Civil War he organized a Confederate unit known as the Lone Star Rifles. Wounded at the Battle of Thompson's Station in Tennessee (1863) and the Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia (1864), he attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. In the 1870s Norsworthy moved to Orange, where he worked as a merchant and a rice farmer. He was later elected to three terms as mayor of the city. Recorded - 1980
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