Norfleet, Fillmore

See Accession 33180 for information on Fillmore Norfleet.

From the description of Fillmore Norfleet papers : Works Progress Administration, 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122464842

Historian and teacher.

From the description of Papers of Fillmore Norfleet, ca. 1968-1976. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32959402

French teacher, biographer, genealogist.

From the description of Papers of Fillmore Norfleet [manuscript], 1931-1979. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813316

Robert Fillmore Norfleet was born 3 September 1903 in Suffolk, Virginia. He graduated from Washington and Lee University with a B.A. and a law degree, and received both a master's and a doctorate in french literature from the University of Virginia. He taught at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, from 1927 to 1929, and at Woodberry Forest School in Madison County, Virginia, from 1934 to 1968, when he retired. Norfleet also taught at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, and worked at the Dietz Press in Richmond. A genealogist, he published works on the Norfleet family and on Nansemond County, Virginia. He married Elizabeth Copeland, and they had 2 children. Norfleet died 21 July 1987 in Orange County, Virginia, and was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.

From the guide to the Fillmore Norfleet Nansemond County Records, 1748-1877, (The Library of Virginia)