Mary McKinley, Sherman Room at Mansfield Richland County Public Library

Editor’s Note This story was originally published as a blog post by The Sherman Room at Mansfield Richland Public Library on Oct. 29, 2022. It is being republished by Richland Source via a collaborative agreement with the library. Last week, we explored the first marriage and divorce of the “well-known” Amos D. Norris, who apparently […]

The name “Amos Norris” is written many, many times in the court records of Richland County in the late 1800s and early 1900s, so much so that late in his life one newspaper wrote that Amos “(seemed) to be known to all the attorneys of the city who claim that lawing is a pastime with […]