Captain George Little was also in
the
American Revolution, wounded and captured at the fall of Charleston, had
much land but his injuries allowed him exemption from paying property
taxes. This benefit must have been what Peter Bozeman was working on in
Alabama when he died.
George and his wife Mary had come from
Scotland apparently with several of his brothers, who he had named his own sons
after. He had ten children and his wife died young. About 1800 he
married his son's mother in law, Mary Handley Douglass, a widow with three
daughters, and one would become a great great granny to my dad's
grandmother. Pictures of George's tombstone are on the internet,
apparently near "Littles Crossroads". Mary's brother John Handley had
served in the War and became an explorer in Kentucky like Daniel Boone and had
much land there, inviting his sisters and their families to join him in this new
adventure. George's children were mostly all grown and married and joined
in. They left S.C. and traveled through a beautiful Tennessee before
settling in Kentucky. The names of the counties were just
happening so it would seem they were everywhere! Stories of their lives
are in many of the County history books and other books that his grandson, L. P.
Little, had written. They all lived close together according to the census
records and all the many other names they had intermarried with: Wright,
Waltrip, Weatherford, Hunt,Roberts, Duval, Simmons, Stone, Crigler, Carpenter,
Coonfield. Most of their grandsons served in the Civil War and later migrated
west. My dad's sister said when Grandpa John Wright Little settled on Sandy
Mountain Arkansas, he had refused an indian land allotment in Oklahoma.
His military papers described him as a very dark complected dark haired man and
he did get a small pension for his service. John's great grandfather was a
Charles Weatherford of Charlotte Virginia history, along with many other
Weatherfords who served in the War and migrated south, many into Georgia and
Alabama. The father of Chief Red Eagle was a Charles Weatherford who
married Sehoy and he had come from Virginia, so who's to say he did not have
another family in his past. Eagle's real name was William Weatherford and his
sister named Catherine. John Little's granny was a Catherine, married in VA in
1811 and records there indicate her father was a Charles, but he is not the one
to make her marriage bond, so where was he.
Many of the families intermarried
here, the names are found in politics and books. The Judge and author
Lucius Powhatan Little's mother Martha was Catherine's sister, so when
Catherine died young, Martha took in the children, as well as her own parents,
John C. Wright and Catherine G.Weatherford Wright. Catherine had
been married to Hiram Lucius Little and Martha to Douglass Little, both sons of
Betsy Douglass and Jonas Little. Jonas' brother John liked TN
so much that he went back there to live a while, then on to Texas. I think
they had a brother named William in SC who went to TX, instead of
KY.
Most of them then served in the
Civil War and then migrated west. Hiram married a 14 yr old Rebecca in TN
and moved to TX, where they named a son Hiram. Some of Hirams children
followed but not John W. - he married Catherine Crigler and had
several children but when his wife died, he moved to Sandy Mountain, in Marble,
Arkansas.
The name Georgia was used often with
the granddaughters of this family so I would assume that was his mother's middle
name and it is the location where Charles' father Martin Weatherford and many
others migrated.
As with L.P., the name
Powhatan was passed down several times. His daughter Laura passed on some
of his genealogy notes and her daughter Martha "mailed" me a package of very
helpful information from her location in Arizona.
Some have written about this Little
family but these notes seem to give ours a little more
authenticity.
Captain George Little was a
cripple after the war and had no children with Mary Handley Douglass. His
brother Jonas seemed to have migrated south after the War and there was a John,
a John Jr. and a Joseph Little living nearby in 1790 Union South Carolina, who
were probably, his father and brothers from Scotland. When I think of
those from Charlotte VA who joined the Littles in KY, I have to make
note that some of the females were names Lotte, Lotta, and Lattie. John W.
named a daughter Lattie. She married a Coonfield from
KY.