Captain George Little

and his wife Mary, from Scotland, had ten children in Union, South Carolina; 5 girls and 5 boys on the 1790 census. George served in the American Revolution but so did a Jonas Little, who might have been his brother, because George also named a son Jonas in 1780. George became widowed, his children became adults and married, having families of their own. Soon he married the widowed mother in law of his son Jonas. His second wife was Mary Handley Douglass.

About 1802 they moved into Tennessee for a couple of years and then into Ohio County Kentucky; George, sons Jonas and John, his daughters, and his sister in law and brother in law. Mary's brother, John Handley, a surveyor, became a Senator in Kentucky.Thus we have many surnames gathered in this wagon train

10 children of George and Mary Little of Scotland

9 children of his son Jonas and Betsy Douglass Little

James Thomas, William, Wesley M, Hiram Lucius, George, Douglass Little, Nancy Polly Moseley, Sally Minton, Elizabeth "Betsy" Roberts, Martha Humphrey

After the death of Jonas, his wife is found on the census living with Betsy Roberts

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News article - Capt. George Little and Sgt. Anthony Thompson - REV WAR Ceremony - thanks to cousin Laura Little, daughter of Kentucky Circuit Judge Lucius Powhatan Little

Kathy Cochran

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Father of my dad's granny Lattie Cedonia Little Coonfield

John Wright Little military discharge from Civil War shows that he was in the Kentucky Infantry

John lived with his late mother's sister in 1860 Martha

1. Aunt Martha Ann Wright Little of Virginia is living with her son Lucius Powhatan Little on this 1900 Kentucky census

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Mary Handley's parents were George Handley and Martha Mason of Ireland. Mary's siblings were Rachel Handley Thompson and John Handley. Mary Handley had three daughters Alexander Douglass before his mysterious death in Pennsylvania, then all of the Handleys moved to a Scottish settlement in South Carolina before 1800 and were in Kentucky in 1802,

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Douglass and Hiram Little married sisters from John C. Wright's family.

Douglass married Martha Wright

Hiram married Catherine Wright

Sister Mary Ann Wright married a Waltrip

Parents were John C Wright and Catherine G Weatherford Wright of Charlotte Virginia and the Virginia records online indicate that her father was Charles Weatherford, a son of William. and Mary Half Blood.

Martha Ann Wright Little named a son Lucius Powhatan Little, known as L P Little, was a judge in Owensboro and a prolific author and storyteller. Lucius contributed a great deal of information about our ancestors in the book "History of Daviess" and in the Kentucky Biographies. Daughter of L P was Laura, a terrific genealogist who left us a nice trail of paperwork and joined the DAR.

L P Little was an attorney, a judge, and a knight's templar mason, and I would expect his father Douglass as as well.

Catherine Wright Little named a son John Wright Little who had a daughter named Lattie Cedonia Little Coonfield. John had married Catherine Crigler, daughter of Abraham Crigler and Catherine Roby, and he is found living with them on the 1870 census. When John's mother died, his father Hiram left his children with Douglass and Martha, and removed to Bosque County Texas where he married a young girl from Tennessee.

Some of the other Littles followed Hiram to Texas but his son John removed to Arkansas when he became widowed and was soon followed by his father in law.

One theory about Texas is that the brother of Jonas, John, had married a girl from Tennessee so they did not remain in Kentucky near George; but went back to Tennessee; so it is quite possible that Hiram went to visit and that is where he met and married his second wife, Rebecca Isabella Adams. When Hiram's Uncle John moved his family to Texas, perhaps Hiram moved along with them. On the census next to Hiram in Texas was Rebecca's sister's family - Kizziah Brooks of Tennessee. Rebecca named a son Hiram Lucius Jr and a son also named Brooks Leon Little.

The elder Hiram Little was a physician and a mason according to his tombstone. Many of his family are buried in Meridian Cemetery.

My Aunt Deloris says that some of the Littles presently are residing in Louisiana and build homes for habitat

Ironically and possibly connected in some way was a Hiram in the Alamo http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/AlamoHLLittle.htm

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Douglass Little and Martha had 7 children but some died young of TB: Phineas Handley, Jeptha Finley, Ratcliff Burns, Lucius Powhatan, Lycurgus Leverette, Alonzo Woodfort, Martha Latta. Perhaps there are some clues here to Martha's heritage.

George may have come to America with several brothers, which needs further investigation. The 1790 census shows a George, Jonas, Joseph, John and John Jr. who may or may not be related but they were too old to be the sons of George and the census shows George with ten children.

1800 shows George with 2 sons at home, next to his son Jonas, and John, son in law Abner Spray, on page 33 while two of his married daughters are on page 34. The "other" Jonas is far away on page 15 with another younger George on page 6 and another Jonas on page 10. Obviously our Captain George Little's tribe stayed close together.

William may have died young or moved away from his family, very hard to trace since there were so many Littles in South Carolina during this time. Alabama had some very early settlers like a George Little so maybe that is where we will find Uncle William.

Even so, it is quite common that they all seemed to use the same names for several generations in naming their children.

George Little is mentioned in the History of Kentucky http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kc90853/CaptainGeorgeLittle.html

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