Normantown, West Virginia

Normantown is an unincorporated community in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States, along the Left Fork Steer Creek.

They spent their first winter on the Left Fork of Steer Creek, in a bark lean-to, built in a small ravine just below the present road near where Richard Parsons now lives.

Daniel DeWeese (1821–1905), a Confederate Civil War Veteran and lifelong resident of Gilmer and Calhoun Counties, recalled James Norman in his 1904 book, "Recollections and Experiences of a Lifetime": "During the Summer of 1843, one Sunday at prayer meeting, which was being conducted at the residence of Wm.

Boggs, James Norman, a man of devout mind and very reserved and timid, a gray haired pilgrim whose sands of time were nearly run, in the course of the services arose and for the first time he was ever known to speak in public gave such a profound and convincing exhortation that all who were present were soul feelingly stirred and sensibly impressed.

Pisgah Baptist Church at Stumptown, Gilmer County, then Virginia, now WV, over fourteen years."