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.
Captain George Little and Uncle Anthony Thompson
both married a Handley.
His great grandson John Little