Silas Norton

In 1860 he was a 16 year old farm worker on his very recently widowed mother's farm near Fayettevile in Fayette County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company F, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 in Griffin, GA.

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was on wounded furlough to 19 October 1862. By December 1864 he had been convicted by a court martial, charges not given, and was absent from his unit serving his sentence to at least 28 February 1865, the last record in his military file.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in or near Fayetteville. In 1910 he was working as a house carpenter in Fairburn, Campbell County, GA, living with his new wife and 3 stepsons.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and Henderson.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Jane Norton (1840-1870) in December 1861 and they had a daughter Sarah. They divorced. He married again, Francis "Fanny" West (1843-1907) in November 1865 and they had 7 children. He married for the third time, Frances Marie Emily McLarin Camp, also "Fanny" (1858-1938) in January 1910.

08/03/1843; Fayette County, GA

12/03/1912; Fayette County, GA; burial in West Cemetery, Fayette County, GA