Deborah Rebekah Lodge 63 has 42 members, 36 women and six men. The Rebekah Lodge was founded on Sept. 16, 1851 by Schuyler Colfax. The Norfolk Rebekah Lodge was instituted on April 16, 1891. There have been four assembly presidents from the Norfolk Lodge, Cora Beels, Agnes Jewett, Vivian Jones and Myrtle Reinhold. The group meets the second and fourth Mondays of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Odd Fellow Temple, 403 W. Norfolk Ave. To be eligible to join the Rebekah Lodge, a female must be over 18; a man must be a member of the Odd Fellow Lodge. Source: excerpts from Norfolk Daily News, Saturday, July 7, 2007 on page 14.
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Madison County School Map
The date of the map shown below is unknown. Below the map is a listing (if known) of the school district number, name of school, and the township it was located in at the time of the map. Consolidations of schools, district number changes, and locations of the schools have changed over the years. Use this only as a reference until date of the map can be established.
| District No. | School Name | Township |
| 2 | Norfolk | Norfolk |
| 3 | Sunny Meadow | Norfolk |
| 4 | Valley View | Jefferson |
| 5 | Battle Creek | Battle Creek |
| 6 | Union Valley | Madison |
| 7 | Union Creek | Green Garden |
| 8 | Born | Valley |
| 10 | Deer Creek | Highland |
| 11 | Pleasant Valley | Union |
| 12 | Meadow Grove | Meadow Grove |
| 13 | Newman Grove | Shell Creek |
| 14 | Sunny Dale | Valley |
| 15 | Red House | Fairview |
| 16 | Stange | Warnerville |
| 17 | Stirk | Battle Creek |
| 18 | Meadow Grove | |
| 20 | Norfolk | |
| 21 | Sullivan | Deer Creek |
| 22 | Cunningham | Battle Creek |
| 23 | Hughes | Deer Creek |
| 24 | Dederman | Valley |
| 25 | Warnerville | Warnerville |
| 27 | Mt. Hope | Grove |
| 28 | Schoolcraft | Schoolcraft |
| 29 | Bell | Emerick |
| 31 | Happy Hollow | Deer Creek |
| 33 | Honeysett | Grove |
| 34 | Buffalo Creek | Grove |
| 36 | Jenkins | Kalamazoo |
| 37 | Reiche | Warnerville |
| 38 | Whitehouse | Highland |
| 40 | Iowa Valley | Kalamazoo |
| 42 | Muller | Green Garden |
| 43 | Norfolk | |
| 44 | East Emerick | Emerick |
| 45 | Shell Creek | |
| 46 | Dover | Union |
| 47 | Enola | Union |
| 48 | Good cheer | Union |
| 49 | Solso | Kalamazoo |
| 50 | West Emerick | Emerick |
| 52 | Hoffmann | Grove |
| 54 | Rose Hill | Emerick |
| 55 | Chloe | Shell Creek |
| 56 | Pleasant view | Fairview |
| 58 | Pleasant Hill | Shell Creek |
| 61 | Blakeley | Highland |
| 62 | Harbottle | Shell Creek |
| 64 | Alberry | Battle Creek |
| 66 | Roman Star | Fairview |
| 67 | Schmidt | Emerick |
| 68 | Simonson | Shell Creek |
| 69 | Tannehill | Warnerville |
| 71 | Enterprise | Meadow Grove |
| 75 | Simpson | Battle Creek |
| 76 | Rolling Prairie | Emerick |
| 77 | Pleasant Hill | Deer Creek |
| 79 | Sobotka | Highland |
| 80 | Tilden | Jefferson |
| 82 | Valley | |
| 83 | Liberty Consolidated | Madison |
| 85 | Upland | Schoolcraft |
| 86 | Brookside | Schoolcraft |
| 87 | Norfolk | |
| 88 | Fairview | Fairview |
| 94 | King Olson | Schoolcraft |
| Pleasant Valley | Grove | |
| Horn | Battle Creek | |
| Haskins | ||
| Plainview | Union | |
| Kalamazoo | Kalamazoo |
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1894 Marriages
Marriage licenses were issued today to Rudolph H. Dommer and Mary Kirbitz; and Wm. F. Haase and Mathilda R. Dommer. Source: “The Norfolk Daily News”, Friday, March 30, 1894 on page 3.