Sii qor faqradan - Norvell wuxuu lahaa toban wiil oo uu dhalay sadex xaas. Xaaskiisa saddexaad, Isabella Hodgkiss Freeman (1804<unk>1873) waxay ahayd gabadhii la korsaday ee Tristram B. Freeman, daabacaha caanka ah ee Philadelphia iyo aasaasaha guriga xaraashka Freeman. Waalidkeed waxay ahaayeen Michael Hodgkiss iyo Sarah DeWeese. Isabella, Norvell wuxuu dhalay laba gabdhood iyo sideed wiil, mid wuxuu ku dagaalamay Dagaalkii Mexico iyo Mareykanka iyo lix ayaa ku dagaalamay Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Mareykanka. Dhammaantood waxay ka badbaadeen dagaalka. Kornayl Freeman Norvell, wuxuu ahaa Kornayl Ciidanka Badda oo ku dagaalamay Dagaalkii Chapultepec bishii Sebtember 1847 iyo Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Dagaalkii Gettysburg sanadkii 1863. Freeman walaalkiis ka yar Lt. Dallas Norvell wuxuu ka tirsanaa shaqaalaha General George Custer. Wiil kale, Kornayl Stevens Thompson Norvell wuxuu ahaa sarkaal ka tirsan ciidanka 10aad ee Buffalo Soldiers dagaalkii kadib iyo dagaalkii San Juan Hill
Theodore Roosevelt intii lagu jiray dagaalkii Spain iyo Mareykanka. Gabadha weyn ee Norvell Isabella Gibson Norvell waxay guursatay Capt. Angus Keith, oo ahaa kabtanka doonta Great Lakes, iyo gabadha yar Emily Virginia Norvell waxay guursatay Henry Nelson Walker, oo ah milkiilaha wargeyska, qareenka, iyo xeer ilaaliyaha guud ee Michigan.