Descendants of John Little
Generation No. 1
1. JOHN1 LITTLE was born 1785 in NC, and died 1867 in Niles KS.
He married (1) ANNITTEN HOLLEN February 29, 1816
in Guilford Co, NC?.
He married (2) HANNAH RETTA Bef. 1850. She was born Abt. 1785,
and died October 08, 1854 in Madison Co., Elwood
IN.
More About JOHN LITTLE:
Military service: Moved to Tipton Co. Indiana between 1840-50 with
his son Hugh R.
Children of JOHN LITTLE and ANNITTEN HOLLEN are:
i. MARY AN2 LITTLE, b. December 1816.
ii. ? LITTLE, b. March 1818.
iii. WILLIAM LITTLE, b. July 24, 1819.
iv. HUGH ROBINSON LITTLE, b. 1821, North
Carolina;
d. April 12, 1879, Niles KS.
v. LOUINDA LITTLE, b. January 29, 1825.
vi. PRUSSIE LITTLE, b. August 09, 1827.
vii. LOUISA LITTLE, b. October 09, 1829.
Child of JOHN LITTLE and HANNAH RETTA is:
viii. MARY2 LITTLE, b. Abt. 1845.
Generation No. 2
2. HUGH ROBINSON2 LITTLE (JOHN1) was born 1821
in North Carolina, and
died April 12, 1879 in Niles KS.
He married (1) MARY ELIZABETH GILLILAND
April 26, 1849,
daughter of JOSIAH GILLILAND. She died 1864 in KS.
He married (2) ELIZABETH 1871. She died 1872.
Notes for HUGH ROBINSON LITTLE:
13 Oct, 1851 Deed Tipton Co., IN
Hugh Little and Josiah Gilleland
of Tipton Co.
from
Moses Johnson of Vermillion Co., IN.
E1/2 NE 1/4 Sec 9, T21N, R5E 80 A., $300 [Cicero Twp.]
13 Oct. 1851
Recorded: 17 Jan 1852
(book C, p. 327)
21 Feb, 1854 Deed
Tipton Co., IN
Josiah Gilleland and Hugh (B.) Little and Elizabeth Little of Tipton
Co., IN
to
Elijah R Bonham of Tipton Co.
E 1/2 NE 1/4, Sec 9, T21N, R5E 80 A. $575
21 Feb 1854
Recorded: 27 Aug 1854
(bk. 1)
The Will of Hugh Robinson Little:
State of Kansas, Ottawa County In the Probate Court in and for
said County
In the matter of the estate of Hugh R. Little, Late of said county,
deceased.
Petition
Your petitioner, the undersigned, William N. Frost, who was
heretofore appointed by this court administrator of the estate of
Hugh R. Little deceased, respectfully represents;
1st
That he has made and returned into court a true inventory
of all the personal property belonging to said estate, and that he
has duly sold the same and is now prepared to make an accounting
to said court concerning the same.
2nd
That he believes that about all the demands against said
estate have been established and that the proceeds of the sale of
said personal property will pay off all of said demands and leave
a balance of about $1000.00 to be distributed among the heirs of
said estate.
3rd
That said Hugh R. Little deceased at the time of his death
was the owner in fee simple of the following described real estate
situated in Ottawa County Kansas, towit: The N 1/2 of SW 1/4 of
Section 30 - township 12 - range 1 and E 1/2 of SE 1/4 of Section
25 township 12 Range 2 - The N 1/2 of NW 1/4 of section 31, and
S 1/2 of SW 1/4 of NE 1/4 of section 31 township 12 - range 1,
The NW 1/4 of SE 1/4 and SW 1/4 Section 31, township 12 range
1 - and about 12 acres out of the SE 1/4 of section 25 township 12
range 2, and that said real estate is unincumbered and is worth
about $4000.00
That said Hugh R. Little at the time of his death left the
following named children who we still (homing torust) -
William Little aged 30 years
John J. Little " 27 "
George R. Little " 24 "
Emlore Little " 22 "
Elizabeth Little " 19 "
Mary E. Little " about 18 "
That said children are the only heirs of said Hugh R. Little
deceased and are entitled to the distribution of his estate.
That most of the above described real estate is farming
lands, and it would be greatly to the interests of said heirs to
have a distribution of said lands made at this time. Subject to
the payment of any demands that may be established against
said estate, said distribution to become final, if not required for
the payment of demands against said estate, after the final
settlement of said estate.
Your petitioner further says that he believes that such
distribution can be made by the mutual consend of said heirs,
and that they will give a good and sufficient bond to pay all
demands against said estate that said land might be bound
for and that they will not commit waste on said lands.
Wherefore your petitioner prays said court to order a
distribution of said real estate as asked for in this petition.
Wm. W. Frost
Adm. of the estate of Hugh R. Little deceased,
State of Kansas, Ottawa County
William W. Frost being first duly sworn
says that the allegations set forth in the foregoing petition
are true.
(sig) Wm W. Frost
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of December,
AD 1879
JH (Hawmins)
(public) probate court
Ottawa (County House)
More About HUGH ROBINSON LITTLE:
Fact 3: 1860, Moved to KS
Occupation: Bet. 1840 - 1850, Was a wheelright and day laborer
Property: 1851, Purchased 80 acr. from Moses Johnson for $300
Residence: April 24, 1858, Moved from IN to KS? (obit)
More About MARY ELIZABETH GILLILAND:
Military service: Died from pneumonia after giving birth to
Ellsworth
Marriage Notes for HUGH LITTLE and MARY GILLILAND:
From a transcription of the Marriage Record
Tipton Co., IN
Hugh Robinson Little and Mary Elizabeth Gilleland
26 April 1849
License Issued: 24 April 1849
Certificate Returned: 1 Aug 1849
Married by: Levi T. Hobbes, Justice of the Peace (Book 1, p. 65)
Children of HUGH LITTLE and MARY GILLILAND are:
i. WILLIAM WESLEY3 LITTLE, b. March 13, 1850,
Wayne Co., Indiana; d. June 1940, Barnsdall, OK.
Notes for WILLIAM WESLEY LITTLE:
William Little (1850-1940) was born in Wayne Co., Indiana,
during the family move from Guilford County, North Carolina, to
Tipton Co., Madison Twp., IN. William was John Little's grandson
and Hugh Robinson Little's first son. My great grandfather
George Robinson Little was William's brother. William Little
died in Barnsdall, OK in June 1940, at age 90. The following
biographical sketch, of early Kansas Pioneers, was written by
William Little for a member of the Kansas Historical Society in
1930.
--J. Wesley Little
William Little
November 15th, 1930
I was born in Wayne Co., Indiana, March 13th, 1850.
In April, 1859, my father, Hugh Robinson Little with his family
consisting of Mother and their five children, came up the valley
and stopped for three days at Tim Hersey's cabin which was
located just west of where the Overland Trail crossed Mud Creek.
Mr. Hersey and my father rode up into the Solomon Valley to look
for a good tract of land to preempt. The place they selected was on the
Solomon River about a mile below the mouth of Coal Creek and about
seven miles northwest of where Solomon now is. He held this claim
for about four years and eight months and then commuted it to a
homestead. At the time we stopped at Hersey's, he had a
good log
house about 14 x 20 with a loft above for sleeping quarters.
James Bell and F.W. Bradfield had claims on the creek below Hersey's.
We left there on Easter Sunday, April 24th, 1859. I think that is
the last time Easter Sunday has come on April 24th. Coming up the
trail, we stopped for a drink at Sand Springs. There was a
cottonwood tree growing just west of the spring, and north of the
spring at the side of the hill was a hunter's log cabin and between
the spring and the cabin ran the Overland Trail which was a well
traveled road. The "Pike's Peakers" were then going west to the
gold fields of Colorado. Father rented fifteen acres from Tim Hersey
on the south side of the road, and in May, 1959, we went down there
to get the land ready to put into corn. I dropped the corn for the
men to cover, and we finished the planting on the tenth of June.
One night in May, 1859, when we were at Hersey's, there was a
terrific wind storm. I was sleeping in the loft and did not hear it,
but the others heard the house crack and thought it might go. In the
morning we found our wagon blown down by the creek and if it had not
been stopped by a pile of rails, it would have gone into the creek.
When we went home, we found that the wind had torn down much of the
timber along the river. Cottonwood trees three and four feet through
were broken off. Mother at home on the Solomon felt the house shake
that night and was afraid that the house would go, but it weathered
the storm. I think it was this storm in May, 1859, which blew down
the buildings in the town of Buchanan. I heard about the houses
being blown down and I remember riding with my father though between
where the houses had been. We saw lumber on both sides of the road
but do not remember of seeing any logs. There was no prairie fire
through Solomon near the time which could have burned the houses.
There was a grove of about 200 acres of oak and walnut timber at
Sullivan's bend on the Solomon about two miles south of the mouth of
Coal Creel and in 1855 I think the government put in a saw-mill there
to saw out timbers and plank to make bridges over the Solomon and
Saline Rivers, and I think also over Mud Creek at Abilene. These
bridges were put in in the winter of 1855-6 or spring of 1856.
They were not built on piles, but the framed bents spanned the
channels of the streams. These bridges were all washed out by the
big flood of 1858, the year before we arrived. That was a great
flood covering all of the bottom land. I heard an explorer by the
name of Prost telling that he was coming down the Solomon Valley and
had to take to the divide between the Solomon and the Republican.
In the winter of 1864-5, I went to school at Lindsay. At that time,
there was a fort at Lindsay made by building log cabins around a
square with a well in the enclosure. The spaces between the houses
were filled in with oak pickets. One of the houses on the south side
was used for a school.
In 1866, when I was sixteen, I carried the mail from the post office
in Whitley's log cabin in Solomon to a cabin occupied by John C.
Bobblitt where Minneapolis is now located. I rode a pony and made
the trip once a week. Tim Hersey had a grist-mill about eighty rods
north of his house, which was run by steam power. I think the mill
was built in 1865. I took a grist of wheat there in 1866 and carried
the flour back on my horse. The hotel on the east side of Mud Creek
south of the trail was built by Tom McLean, of squared oak logs
which he cut on the Solomon and my father hauled them down to
Abilene for him.
In the early part of June (24th) 1869, there was a cloud-burst up on
Coal Creek. I remember seeing in the evening a heavy black cloud
hanging over Coal Creek Valley. At that time, the river was its
usual size, about five rods wide. The next morning when I looked
out, the water was up to our house, and it reached across the valley
from bluff to bluff. It went down rapidly, and by the next day, the
river was within its banks.
3. ii. JOHN JOSEPH LITTLE, b. 1854, Indiana; d. 1945, Niles KS.
4. iii. GEORGE ROBINSON LITTLE, b. 1855, Tipton Co., IN;
d. October 09, 1926, Barnsdall OK.
5. iv. ELMORE LITTLE, b. 1857, Tipton Co. Indiana; d. January 07,
1944, Niles KS.
6. v. ELIZABETH LITTLE, b. 1861, Solomon River area, near
Niles KS.
7. vi. MARY ELLEN LITTLE, b. 1862, Indiana.
vii. ELLSWORTH LITTLE, b. Abt. 1864.
Generation No. 3
3. JOHN JOSEPH3 LITTLE (HUGH ROBINSON2, JOHN1) was born 1854 in Indiana,
and died 1945 in Niles KS. He married CATHERINE.
Children of JOHN LITTLE and CATHERINE are:
i. MAUDE FLORENCE4 LITTLE, b. Unknown.
ii. ELTON LITTLE, b. Unknown.
8. iii. PERRY MARQUIS LITTLE, b. Unknown.
iv. BERT STUART LITTLE, b. Unknown.
4. GEORGE ROBINSON3 LITTLE (HUGH ROBINSON2, JOHN1) was born 1855 in
Tipton Co., IN, and died October 09, 1926 in Barnsdall OK.
He married MARY ELIZABETH RANDOLPH May 18, 1885, daughter of ?.
She was born April 26, 1863, and died 1950.
More About GEORGE ROBINSON LITTLE:
Military service: Moved from Niles to Indian Territory in 1880s
Children of GEORGE LITTLE and MARY RANDOLPH are:
9. i. HUGH ROBINSON4 LITTLE, b. September 18, 1886, Kansas;
d. December 29, 1970, Barnsdall OK.
ii. GROVER D LITTLE, b. July 08, 1888.
iii. JASPER WESLEY LITTLE, b. September 29, 1896.
10. iv. ROWE LITTLE, b. September 08, 1897.
5. ELMORE3 LITTLE (HUGH ROBINSON2, JOHN1) was born 1857 in Tipton Co.
Indiana, and died January 07, 1944 in Niles KS.
He married LOUISA ELIZABETH BRUMFIELD July 16, 1894.
She was born Abt. 1868.
Notes for ELMORE LITTLE:
Obituary for Elmore Little (Minneapolis Messenger 20 Jan 1944 p. 4 c. 1)
WAS A REAL PIONEER
Elmore Little, pioneer resident of Ottawa county, passed away at his
home west of Niles, Friday, January 7, 1944. He was born in Tipton
county, Indiana, Aprol 15, 1857. At the time of his death, he was 86
years, 8 months and 24 days old. He came to Kansas with his parents,
April 24, 1858. He spent his entire life in this community. He has
seen the progress of the counry from Indian days, his parents having
been the first settlers in the Solomon Valley. Having gone through
the hardships of the early days, the memories of those times were a
great comfort and enjoyment in his later life. He was united in marriage
to Louisa E. Brumfield, July 16, 1894, at Solomon, Kans. To this union
were born three children -- a son, Henry C. Little, of Niles; a daughter,
Mrs. Geneva Schultz, of Salina, and another daughter, Mrs. Florence
Gilmore, who preceded him in death.
He also leaves one brother, John J. Little,
of Niles and two sisters, Mrs Mary Kirby, of niles and
Mrs. Elizabeth Lindsy, of Memphis, Tenn. He leaves six
grandsons and two granddaughters, and other relatives and many friends.
Children of ELMORE LITTLE and LOUISA BRUMFIELD are:
11. i. HENRY CLAY4 LITTLE, b. Abt. 1893; d. 1983.
ii. FLORENCE LITTLE, m. GILMORE.
iii. GENEVA ELIZABETH LITTLE, b. December 24, 1900; m. SCHULTZ.
Notes for GENEVA ELIZABETH LITTLE:
For Transcription of Interview: contact Hugh Little!
6. ELIZABETH3 LITTLE (HUGH ROBINSON2, JOHN1) was born 1861
in Solomon River area, near Niles KS. She married MONROE
LINDSEY September 17, 1879 in Ottowa Co. KS. He was born
Abt. 1846.
More About ELIZABETH LITTLE:
Military service: "first white baby born in the solomon"
Child of ELIZABETH LITTLE and MONROE LINDSEY is:
i. HUGH4 LINDSEY.
7. MARY ELLEN3 LITTLE (HUGH ROBINSON2, JOHN1)
was born 1862 in Indiana. She married JOHN W. KIRBY.
Children of MARY LITTLE and JOHN KIRBY are:
12. i. CLARA MAY4 KIRBY.
ii. RENA KIRBY, m. ? HUDSON.
Generation No. 4
8. PERRY MARQUIS4 LITTLE (JOHN JOSEPH3, HUGH ROBINSON2, JOHN1)
was born Unknown. He married ? Unknown in ?. She
was born in ?, and died Unknown in ?.
Child of PERRY LITTLE and ? is:
i. JACK JEROLD5 LITTLE.
9. HUGH ROBINSON4 LITTLE (GEORGE ROBINSON3, HUGH ROBINSON2, JOHN1)
was born September 18, 1886 in Kansas, and died December 29,
1970 in Barnsdall OK. He married ELIZABETH MCCORMAC
CARTER September 08, 1914 in Tulsa, OK, daughter of H. CARTER
and SARAH MCCORMACK. She was born 1897 in Glena, KS,
and died February 02, 1977 in Bartlesville, OK.
More About HUGH ROBINSON LITTLE:
Military service: Born in KS, moved to IT in 1880's with parents
More About ELIZABETH MCCORMAC CARTER:
Misc.: Was 1/2 blooded Cherokee
Children of HUGH LITTLE and ELIZABETH CARTER are:
i. CARTER HUGH5 LITTLE, b. November 13, 1915, Big Heart, OK;
d. 1983; m. LOIS MABEL PIGG, May 13, 1938.
ii. JASPER WESLEY LITTLE, b. March 04, 1916, Big Heart, OK;
d. December 01, 1991, Bentonville, AK; m.
HELEN BONITA MALTBY, April 14, 1934, Tulsa, Oklahoma; b. July 20, 1917, Harlingen TX.
More About JASPER WESLEY LITTLE:
Military service: Moved to Arkansas to start business in 1947
iii. MARY MARGARET LITTLE, b. April 16, 1919, Barnsdall, OK;
d. July 13, 1958, Barnsdall, OK; m. (1) H. B. WRIGHT, 1937;
m. (2) HENRY J. THOMAS, July 03, 1948; d. April 10, 1963,
Kansas City.
More About MARY MARGARET LITTLE:
Cause of Death: Brain injury from fall from steps
More About HENRY J. THOMAS:
Cause of Death: Blood Poisioning.
10. ROWE4 LITTLE (GEORGE ROBINSON3, HUGH ROBINSON2, JOHN1)
was born September 08, 1897. He married ?.
Child of ROWE LITTLE and ? is:
i. RALPH W.5 LITTLE, b. March 21, 1916, Big Heart, OK; d. September 22, 1921.
11. HENRY CLAY4 LITTLE (ELMORE3, HUGH ROBINSON2, JOHN1)
was born Abt. 1893, and died 1983. He married ?.
More About HENRY CLAY LITTLE:
Occupation: Grave Digger Niles, KS
Children of HENRY LITTLE and ? are:
i. EMMETT5 LITTLE.
ii. WILLIAM LITTLE.
12. CLARA MAY4 KIRBY (MARY ELLEN3 LITTLE, HUGH ROBINSON2, JOHN1)
She married FLOOD.
Child of CLARA KIRBY and FLOOD is:
i. WILLIAM5 FLOOD.
Notes for WILLIAM FLOOD:
Letter to Wesley Little
June 7, 1984
Dear Mr. Little:
I am a great grandson of Hugh R. Little. My grandmother
as you probably already know was Mary Ellen Little, married
to John Kirby. My mother was Clara May Kirby.
I am sorry I have no information for you on John Little, only to
visit his grave on decoration day also Hugh R. John, William,
Elmore, Emily and it has Elizabeth Little Jr. oh one tombstone.
When I was growing up at Niles, on my grandfather's farm (John W. Kirby)
I had lots of contact with Uncle John, Bill, and Elmore. Uncle
Bill was unmarried and would eat Sun. dinner with us and tell
stories of the early days about the cow they trailed all the way
from Indiana and the cow died a few days after they got
to Hershey's at Abilene. Many, many stories John, Bill and
Elmore told, also my grandmother Mary Elen. She was with
Elswroth Little when he went into the Solomon river
and drowned. He was about two years old.
Elmore Little had a son Henry Clay Little who Just passed way about
6 months ago. He was 87 years old. He mowed the cemetary and was
the grave digger dug graves with a hand shovel up to his death.
He was Elmore's son.
In some old photos I came across this picture of your grandfather
as you see, send to J.W. Kirby my grandfather.
They were friends from years back. Keep it.
I took pictures of the old tombstones at Niles on Decoration day.
If they turn out, I'll send you some. The stones are in bad
condition. Thanks for writing.
Sincerely,
Bill Flood.
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