Pleasant View Cemetery
A Pioneer Cemetery in Clackamas County, Oregon
Residents of Lot 83, Plot 4

Norman Polk Atterbury

Birth:  9 Dec 1844;   Death:  17 Jul 1898;   Burial:  17 Jul 1898;   Nativity:  Randolph, Missouri

Location:  Lot 83, Plot 4   (block F)

Ledger Notes:
Age: 53 Yrs., 7 Mos., 8 Days

General Notes:
Civil War Veteran.

Husband of Mary (Turner) Atterbury; Father of Nora (Clinton), Louetta, J. Norman, & Rufus Atterbury.

Family Contribution:  

Norman served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He was a Private in Company H, 8th Missouri Infantry. He surrendered at New Orleans, LA on 26 May 1865 and was paroled at Alexandria, Louisiana on 7 June 1865. His records are on file at the office of the Adjutant General, Jefferson, Missouri. He enlisted as a drummer boy at 16 years of age from Huntsville, Missouri.The family came out west and settled in Sherwood about 1879.  His daughter Helena married a George Baker who had a farm at Edy and Abischer Roads on the hill out of Sherwood. George's father James Baker served on the Union side.  Contributed by Gr Gr Granddaughter, Carol Weisenborn, from the records of Lillian B. Harmon, Granddaughter of Norman and Mary.

 

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