John Wright Little born 1843 Daviess County Kentucky, served in the Kentucky Infantry, 1862-1865 and his paperwork describes him as dark complected, and with black eyes and black hair.
His parents were Nancy Catherine Wright and Dr.Hiram Lucius Little.
His grandparents were Jonas Little and Betsy Douglass.
His great grandparents were Mary and George Little of Scotland.
Jonas Little had another son named Douglass Little who married Martha Ann Wright, the sister of Catherine.
The parents of the Wright sisters were John C. Wright and Catherine G. Weatherford ( daughter of Patsy and Charles Weatherford ) of Charlotte County Virginia.
John Wright had another daughter Mary Ann who married Waltrip and Mary Ann took in her parents on the 1850 census. However in 1860 their mother, Catherine G. Wright is a widow living with Martha and Douglass.
Douglass had a son named Lucius Powhatan Little who was a writer, and a lawyer and Circuit Judge of Owensboro and many pages of the Kentucky History books have been scanned into this study of the Little and Handley families, that Lucius thought we should know about.
L P also wrote about their great grandfather George Little settling into Union County South Carolina, having a family, being injured in the American Revolution with several probably Little brothers, becoming widowed and then how he remarried to Mary Handley Douglass, a woman born asea, as her family voyaged from Ireland, as well as her remarriage after the death of George.
Mary Handley's brother became Senator John Handley of Kentucky and died in 1816.
Hiram Lucius Little became widowed and left his children with his brother Douglass on the 1860 census and moved to Bosque County Texas but some of his children joined him later. His son John joined the Civil War as did his cousin L. P. but then was found on the 1870 census living with his future wife, Catherine, and his future father in law Abraham Crigler.
Abraham was married to Mary Catherine Roby, daughter of Reason Roby and Catherine Simmons.
Parents of Catherine Simmons were Rachel Wells and Jesse Simmons.
Parents of Abraham were Owen Crigler and Mary/ Polly Duval, both born about 1800 in Bardstown, Kentucky. Owen's parents had come from Virginia, Lydia Carpenter and Abe Crigler who had German grandparents..
When John Little became widowed, he moved his family to Arkansas and took on a homestead in 1900, but the family states he refused a land allotment offered in Indian Territory, Oklahoma. In 1910 a widowed Abraham Crigler has also moved into Arkansas.
John Little claimed to be white on the census but his daughter Lattie claimed to be half blood Cherokee with her children.
Judge Lucius Powhatan Little wrote of his ancestorsCaptain George Little and of Mary Handley Douglass and Charles Weatherford and how they came to Kentucky.
John Little's brother Joseph joined their father in Texas and never married - he was described as very dark and very grouchy. He had also served with the Union Army.
Their sister Georgia Alice Nelson had nine children and also moved to Texas. Another sister Catherine married a Captain Alexander and moved to Texas where they had eight children. Then sister Susan and her husband Crenshaw also joined the families in Bosque County Texas.
Their father, Hiram Lucius Little was a mason and a physician and married a very young teen woman to start a new family which included a son he named Hiram Jr.
So John was all alone on his mountain, except for his children, and one can only wonder why, or if there was any communication, with his father or his siblings.
John Wright Little was a blacksmith, and his children saved some of his pieces which are photographed and saved within my pages. He died in 1915 and was buried on his mountain. His grave has never been found.
I have submitted many documents to the Kentucky webpages that seem to be lost so even though this page may seem like a duplication, I see it as a preservation of a very important part of the Little Genealogy.
Here are some of my favorite websites:
MY FILES
DOCUMENTS
Research of Captain George Little
