Mary Elizabeth Norris is the first wife of Milton Atkinson Deupree. She is buried in the Bethel Baptist Church Cemetary in Rocky Mount, Meriweather, Georgia.
The verifying sources for the ancestry of Mary Elizabeth Norris (b 1851) come from Vivian Saffold: namely, Maryland DAR and Revolutionary War records, the History of Upson County by Nottingham and Hannah, cemetary records of Upson and Meriweather Counties, Meriweather and Upson census and marriage records. For example, the 1850 Census for Meriweather yields the following information:
LN LAST FIRST AGE SEX RACE BIRTHPLACE
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39 384 384 Norris William 47 M NC
40 384 384 Norris Narcissa 38 F GA
41 384 384 Norris Cornelius 20 M GA
42 384 384 Norris William 16 M F GA
1 384 384 Norris Alfred 15 M GA
2 384 384 Norris Nancy 13 F GA
3 384 384 Norris Sarah 10 F GA
4 384 384 Norris Churchwell 9 M GA
5 384 384 Norris Ceciro 7 M GA
6 384 384 Norris Martha Ann 4 F GA
The Line goes back to Geoffrey Noreys of Tilney, Norfolk, England who was born before 1396. And, perhaps further, as this record from Yorkshire indicates:
A.D. 1276: The Sheriff is ordered to inquire whether John Morel, who held a toft and 17 acres of land in Bereford of GEOFFREY LE NOREYS, father of Geoffrey le Noreys (whose heir he is), which toft and land Geoffrey the son claims as his right against the Prioress of Ellerton, committed felony for which he was outlawed, as Geoffrey says he did, or not as the Prioress says.