— born in Virginia:
.  Mary C. BRADWELL, b. 1830/1

— born in Missouri:
.  Eliza HENDERSON, b. 1855/6
.  Joseph HENDERSON, b. 1860/1
.  Nancy HENDERSON, b. 1862/3

1.  Marriage Record:

2.  1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #3-4 of 4; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1840

MO

Audrain Co.

Cuivre Twp.

Roll M704_220

pp. 8B-9A

Ln. 1

Thomas Norris

100 010 - 100 010

0100000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	4 or under	1835-1840	= Christian (b. 1835/6)
1 male	20-29	1810-1820	= Thomas (b. 1812-14)
1 female	4 or under	1835-1840	= Letta (b. 1839)
1 female	20-29	1810-1820	= Eliza (b. 1813/4)
1	person employed in agriculture

Listed one line above Eliza's father, Christian STRAUBE.

3.  1850 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #60 of 74):  District No. 4, Audrain Co., MO, p. 183A, 395/417, enumerated 12 Sep 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Thomas Norris	28	M		Farmer	500	O
Eliza    "	36	F				Ia
Christian Smauly	14	M				Ia
Letta Norris	11	F				Mo
Jospus   "	8	M				Mo
Nancy    "	6	F				Mo
John M   "	9/12	M				Mo
Mary C Bradwell	19	F				Va

Thomas's age is surely wrong (see 1840 and 1860) and is more likely 38 than 28.  Listed next to Eliza's sister, Rebecca (STRAUBE) SOX, who is listed next to their parents, Christian & Mary (MILLER) STRAUBE.

4.  1860 Census Index/Images (online at Genealogy.com, Image #10 of 26):  Hickory Creek P.O., Cuivre Twp., Audrain Co., MO, Roll 606 (Book 1), p. 762, PN 20, 134/142, enumerated 12 Jul 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Thomas Norris	46	M		Farmer	2346	884	Ohio
Eliza     "	45	F					Ind
Christian "	20	M					Va
Josephus  "	18	M					Mo
Nancy     "	16	F					Mo
John      "	12	M					Mo
Mary      "	5	F					Mo
Alexander "	3	M					Ohio

Christian SMALLEY-NORRIS is Eliza's child from her prior marriage; he was born in Indiana, not Virginia.  Who is Alexander? A nephew? He either died or went back where he came from by the 1870 census.

5.  1870 Census Index/Images (online at Genealogy.com, Image #42 of 62):  Danville P.O., Upper Loutre Twp., Montgomery Co., MO, Roll 794 (Book 1), p. 125B, PN 42, 297/298, enumerated 26 Sep 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Norris Thomas	57	M	W	Vineyard			Ohio
______ Eliza	57	F	W	Keeping House			Indiana
______ John	20	M	W				Missouri
______ Mary	15	F	W				Missouri
Henderson Eliza	14	F	W				Missouri
_________ Joseph	9	M	W				Missouri
_________ Nancy	7	F	W				Missouri

6.  Anon.  1889.  History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas.  Goodspeed Publ. Co., Chicago.  On p. 875:

John Milton Norris, druggist, of Cherokee City, Ark., was born in Audrain County, Mo., in November, 1850, and there resided until sixteen years of age, when he went to Montgomery County, Mo., with his parents, and was there reared to manhood.  He learned the plasterer's trade and was a successful contractor in that business for a number of years, but was obliged to give it up after a time owing to the failure of his health.  From 1877 to 1878 he was engaged in the livery business in Wellsville, Mo., and from the latter date until 1879 he was a druggist of Edgerton, Kas.  From that time until 1886 he was engaged in various occupations in Missouri, Indian Territory, Texas, and Kansas, meeting with varying success, and at the latter date located in Cherokee City, Ark., where he has been engaged in selling drugs.  He also has a farm near the town and, although he is a comparatively young man, his business ventures have been in the main successful.  He owns a good farm in Kansas and also some town property in that State. May 6, 1874, he was married in Wellsville, Mo., to Miss Eliza A. Baxter of Iowa, and their union has been blessed in the birth of the following children: Thomas Harvey, James Monroe, Dellie Callie and one deceased.  Mr. Norris was educated in the common schools and the Warrenton College (Missouri) and is a young man well versed in the various topies of the day. He is a son of Thomas and Eliza Ann (Straub) Norris, who were born in Ohio and Kentucky, respectively.  The father was a successful farmer, a member of the I.O.O.F. and belonged to the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  Owing to ill treatment during the war, his health became very much broken, and he was taken by his son, John Milton, to Southern California where he was kept three years.  His health greatly improved, and he then returned home.  He died in Denton County, Tex., at the age of sixty-five years.  His wife died at the age of sixty-two years, a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.  Their son, Maj. C.J. NORRIS, died of measles after his return from the army.  He was in seventeen hotly contested battles, but was never wounded nor taken prisoner.

Based on the 1850 census, John Milton was born in August, 1849 — before the enumeration of the 1850 census, not after it.  Eliza Ann (STRAUB) NORRIS was born in Indiana, not Kentucky.

7.  Straube Family Footprints, by Patricia Summers-Smith.