Obit for Mrs. James LITTLE (b.1842), Canby, Yellow Medicine Co., MN

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PASSING OF MRS JAMES LITTLE, CANBY COMMUNITY HOMESTEADER

An announcement was made in the Canby News last week of the death of 
Mrs James Little, a pioneer settle of the Canby community, which 
occurred Wednesday, June 15, at the home of her son, R B Little, in 
St Paul.  The remains reached Canby on Friday morning and the funeral 
services and internment were on Saturday afternoon.  She had been a 
resident of Minnesota for about 73 years.

Mary Experience Oaks, widow of the late James Little, was born in a log 
cabin near LaPorte, IN, September 15, 1842.  Came with her parents to 
Oronoco, Olmstead County, Minnesota, in the year 1854, where her father 
had taken a pre-emption.  The family moved to Rochester, 8 years later, 
where she was living when she was married in 1867 to James Little, a 
veteran of the Civil War.

With her husband and three children she came to Canby, MN in 1878 and 
settled on a claim in Hammer township, where they lived until they 
moved to Canby in 1905. 

After the death of her husband in the year 1912, she went to live 
with her son Reuben in St. Paul.  She was active and able to care 
for herself personally until within 3 days of her death, her last 
illness lasting only ten days.

She leaves on earth four sons and twelve grandchildren, one son 
and an only daughter having preceded her in death.  The remains 
were brought to Canby Friday morning to be placed in the family 
cemetery lot besides those of her late husband.

Funeral services were held Saturday at 2:30 PM for Backer Bros 
undertaking parlors and from the Presbyterian church, Rev E N 
Prentice officiating.  She was buried in the family lot, beside 
her husband in the Canby Cemetery.

She had been a member of three old settlers organizations, in 
tow of which she was a pioneer.  She belonged to St. Mary's 
Episcopal Church, St Paul, the Territorial Pioneers of Minnesota, 
and was  a Daughter of the American Revolution.