LITTLE NOTES
Captain George Little of Scotland
and wife Mary, came to South Carolina, had ten children, before she passed away, and he joined the American Revolution with several other Littles as listed on the SC Roster, who could have been his brothers.  In fact he named his sons after them.
His son Jonas married Elizabeth "Betsy" Douglass who's mother, Mary, had become widowed and later George and Mary wed. Mary's brother John had settled in Kentucky and they all began a journey to join him, staying a short while in Tennessee and settling in KY about 1802. We have collected so much information about them, their extended families and military records as you will soon see, but at this time, we have another grandfather in Henry County KY on the 1800 tax list, Isaac Coonfield, who's descendants will connect with the Littles in about one hundred years.
Pages are changing on the internet as they always do, companies shut down, pages get relocated and links die, so this will be a challenge to put it all back together again.
Different authors have tried to tell the story of George and each is different but my family knew their grandmother Lattie Little Coonfield and have her family Bible with many notes inside, plus her stories. Lattie's father John Little (civil war vet) made his home in Arkansas after the civil war and his father Hiram (civil war vet and surgeon)  migrated through Tennessee visiting his Uncle John and both ended up in Texas.  Hiram and his brother Douglass, both had married daughters of Catherine G. Weatherford and John C. Wright, who had migrated from Charlotte. VA to KY. Douglass named a son Lucius Powhatan Little (civil war vet) and both became lawyers and judges, and LP became a famous writer / author and kept his child Laura well informed of the family history.  Laura's daughter Martha Hawes mailed a package of information to me, and the papers showing Laura's work to get George into the DAR and a historical marker.
In the meantime, the Coonfields of 1900 were also working on this with Martha and those notes were in my package as well. My daddy's cousins Velma and Dorline Gray were researching the indian blood in our line from KY and VA with the Powhatan and Weatherford connections.
Ironically,they referred to  a probable sister of Pocahontas, named Cleopatra, and while studying another lineage, there was a second reference, so it is possible, because it is also written that Powhatan had at least 100 wives who gave him children.
The Weatherfords also had more than one wife, so the truth will never be known.
The documents I have were uploaded to the Kentucky genealogy webpages but it also being altered and upgraded and nerve wracking.
Some wrote about George that only one child followed him to KY but that is so very wrong.  The census shows most of his children living all around him. His wife's brother and sister were also there.  George loved living along Green River and watched his new  homestate of KY develop each town, each county, and his grandchildren growing with it. Therefore these families are found in several counties simply because of the development and change of names by the state.
Mary Handley Little had no children born with George as he was disabled from his wounds in the war and while some may think she did,  our family says no. Betsy would have known and she would have told Douglass and Hiram;  then their children would have known.  So there ya go.
Of course with Betsy becoming our grandmother, we have to add her dad, Mr. Douglass of Pennsylvania, to our list of grandfathers and we know nothing about him.
LP wrote very little about his grandparents, yet focused on the history of the Green River and the History of Kentucky.  He had a decent outline of family events as their history unfolded and letters to his family.
Our documents have enabled several to become members of the DAR and I see that several connect to Lattie Little, which makes me proud.  I have already joined through my mother's line but may apply to this for my dad's connection.  Lattie's daughter Luella Coonfield married Frank Delbert Cochran in 1914 Arkansas and they moved around a lot, as he was looking for work, wherever it might take him. Some of their children were born in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas.  Frank served in WWI and his dad, Jacob Cochran served in the Ohio Infantry during the civil war. 
Jacob's grandfather Alexander Cochran also served in the Revolution. Jacob was the first to take a homestead property in Graham, Kansas, while John Little took a homestead in Marble, Arkansas.   The Coonfields left KY for Indiana, as written in the history books there in 1824 and then into Arkansas about 1859.
Quite a family circle indeed!
Even better......Captain George Little was captured at the fall of Charleston as was my mother's grandfather, Peter Bozeman.  So we were all connected even in 1776.
Luella's son Frankie Lavern Cochran served in the Korean War as a copilot, dropping bombs and was wounded, eventually sent to Montgomery Alabama AFB and while in town one day, he met my mother. They made a home in Oklahoma for a while, then Arizona and Alabama.  We lived amongst several indian reservations and some mexicans so mother learned many new recipes.  Both have passed on but they had an unconditional love and trust that most of us can only dream about.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/bullitt/photos/little521gph.jpg
Captain George Little and Uncle Anthony Thompson
both married a Handley.
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His great grandson John Little
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/bullitt/photos/military/civilwar/pensions/little149gmt.jpg
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/bullitt/military/civilwar/pensions/little149gmt.txt
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/daviess/military/civilwar/pensions/little111gmt.txt
http://usgwarchives.net/ky/bullitt/toc.html
lost photo??
abrahamc194gms.txt Letters .....Abraham Crigler 1k 3-09-2007 Kathy Cochran
families192gms.txt Letters .....Families Of Handley 1900
http://usgwarchives.net/ky/daviess/bios.html
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/daviess/history/letters/captaing193gms.txt
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/ohio/history/letters/families192gms.txt
http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/bullitt/history/letters/abrahamc194gms.txt
http://usgwarchives.net/ky/mclean/toc.html

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