Butler County AlArchives Biographies.....Little, John G. December 3 1825 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   JOHN G. LITTLE is a representative gentleman of the old school and for over
half a century has been an honored citizen of Butler county. His father, Amos
Little, a farmer by occupation, was born in Union district, S. C., in the year
1801, and came to Butler county, Ala., in 1820, settling near the town of
Ridgeville, where he lived till 1855. He then changed his residence to Conecuh
county, where his death occurred in 1879. His wife, whose maiden name was
Elizabeth Hayes, accompanied her husband to Alabama, and departed this life in
Conecuh county in the year 1861. John G. Little was born near the town of
Ridgeville, Butler county, December 3, 1825, and grew to manhood on a farm,
receiving in such schools as the country at that time afforded but limited
educational adavntages. He remained with his parents until 1846, in which year
he engaged as overseer with Col. Estey of Mississippi, in whose employ he
remained eighteen months, after which he did service at intervals for W. H.
Crenshaw, Esq., a prominent planter of southern Alabama. Husbanding his
earnings, he subsequently invested them in lands near Cedar, Butler county, but
for sometime acted in the capacity of overseer for Thomas Crenshaw, and during
the war raised provisions for the army in the county of Lowndes. For five years
following the war Mr. Little was engaged in the pursuit of agriculture, and then
gave up the farm and moved to the town of Monterey, which he made his home for a
period of fifteen years. In 1888, he removed to Greenville, where he has since
resided in peaceful retirement from active life. Mr. Little was married,
December 16, 1853, to Sophronia E. Howell, who died January 10, 1892. She was a
most estimable lady and bore her husband five children: Teresa, wife of Dr.
Garrett; Susan, wife of William Stewart; J. B., a graduate of the university of
Alabama, and for three years professor of chemistry in that institution; Charles
L., also a graduate of the state university, and Anna B., a graduate of the A.
C. F. college, Tuscaloosa. Mr. Little has been a prominent factor in the local
politics of Butler county, and as a democrat has at different times represented
his party as a delegate to state conventions. He is an earnest worker in the
cause of temperance, and it was through his efforts that a bill was passed by
the general assembly making it unlawful to vend intoxicating liquors of any kind
within five miles of the town of Monterey. In matters educational he has
likewise been deeply interested, and, appreciating the value of training, of
which he in youth was deprived, has given all his children the benefits of full
courses in the best colleges and universities of the state. Having begun life as
a poor boy, with but a limited education, Mr. Little, by his own exertion, has
not only become a well-to-do citizen and large property holder, but has also
advanced the material interests and added to the wealth of his county. He is a
consistent member of the Baptist church, in which he holds the office of deacon.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 564

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