Littell Families of America A non-profit Family Association
Littell Families of America evolved from several informal picnics during the 1960s and was formally incorporated as a non-profit association in the State of Indiana in 1972.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Frederick Moore Littell, Chairman of the Board, 190 Appletree Road, Winnetka, IL 60093 (Deceased)
Noble Kieth Littell, President and Historian, 1219 KatCaLani Avenue, Sebring, FL 33870
William Adams Littell, Jr, Treasurer, 490 Woodscreek Ct, Moriches, NY 11955
Alison Littell McHose, Co-Editor, Littells's Living Age, P.O. Box 75, Franklin, NJ 07416
Linda Sue Littell, Secretary, 2170 Route 18, Aliquippa, PA 15001
Jack Littell Nowling, 136A Daleview Dr., Vincennes, IN 47591
Max Littell, P.O. Box 1881, Roswell, NM 88201
Joyce Littell Hamilton, 26642 S. New Town Dr., Sun Lakes, AZ 85224
Harold William Littell, 183 Fairway Dr., Akron, OH 44333
Annual Dues - $7.50 Five-Year Certificate Membership - $35 Life Membership - $150
EDITORS NOTES
Thanks are extended to Alison Littell McHose for her efforts toward the publication of this issue of Littell’s Living Age. I am at fault for thrusting such a task upon her and not being around to give her help and support as I should have been. The year 2000 has been a hectic one for me with the terminal illness of my daughter Chere. My health has been as good as can be expected but the depression that accommodates the loss of a child has reduced my desire to forge ahead as in the past.
Alison tried to do the necessary chores to bring this issue to a timely publication but the life and the tasks of one working in the office of an influential and busy New Jersey state senator precluded her from devoting the necessary hours to the task. She is a legislative aide in the office of her father, Senator Robert Eugene Littell, makes a home for her husband and tends to the demanding needs of a two year old son.
I am not certain as to the future of this magazine and I personally apologize for the format of this issue as I have not been able to adequately organize the contents. There is someone amongst the many Littell descendants who would like to have a sounding board in which to present their views of family history and genealogy, and has the available time, who will step forward and carry on this publication that has overcome trials tribulations, prosecutions, bankruptcy, and many obstacles since 1843. Alison is listed as co-editor as a good portion of what follows was prepared by her.
Alison Elizabeth Littell was born in Newton, New Jersey, the first child of Robert Eugene and Virginia (Newman) Littell. Her Littell roots in Sussex County are deep , she is of the 9 generation of John Littell. Her political roots are also well entrenched, her great grandfather, Watson Littell, was on the first Borough Council in Franklin. Her grandfather, Alfred B. Littell, was Mayor of Franklin, State Assemblyman, State Senator, president of Franklin, State Assemblyman, State Senator, president of the Senate and Acting Governor of New Jersey. Her father, Robert Eugene Littell, served as State Assemblyman and is currently a State Senator, the dean of the New Jersey legislature having served over thirty years.
Alison is a graduate of the University of Maryland with a degree in Government and Politics. She lived and worked in Washington, DC for eight years before moving back to New Jersey in 1995. She served four years in the Bush administration.
She met her husband, Morgan McHose, while in Washington, he is also a University of Maryland graduate. They were married in 1993 and have the one son, Logan Littell McHose, born in 1998. Additional activities include service on the Franklin Economic Development Committee; Franklin Historical Society; and the Junior League of Morristown. Morgan, Alison, & Logan McHose
REUNIONS
An informal gathering of the Littells was hosted by Bill and Gloria Littell the third week of August 2000 at the Littell Horse Farm in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Littell reunions have been held in this area since shortly after the Civil War at the farm of General John Smith Littell. He had risen to the rank of brigadier during the war and was chosen sheriff of the county several times. It was at the General Littell farm that the current series of reunions was revived in 1967.
Plans for the 2001 gathering are also for the third week of August, for details contact Bill and Gloria at 490 Woodscreek Ct, Moriches, NY 11955, (631) 874-3533 or e mail [email protected] or Noble Littell at 1219 Katcalani Ave., Sebring, FL 33870 (863) 471-9387 or e-mail — [email protected] Please confirm your plans to attend by July Vt.
Southern Indiana Reunion. [ following article appeared in the North Plain Dealer for August 26, 1999 captioned — Littell family gathers at city park for 75 time. Most of those in attendance are descendants of Elias Littell (1789- 1867) and set forth in Chapter 7 of LFH&G. Narlon Littell of RR 5, North Vernon, Indiana 47265 was president of the group, the clipping was contributed by Helen Moser]
“Friends and family of the Littell’s met at North Vernon City Park shelter house # 3 on Aug. 8, 1999, for their annual reunion, this being the 78 Louise Wilber asked the blessing on the meal. After a bountiful dinner, the business meeting was opened by the president, Narlon Littell.
“There was one birth reported: Beth Ann Southerland was born July 27, 1999, to Dale and Ruth Southerland of Seymour. She weighed 6 pounds and 11 ounces and was 20 inches long. We look forward to seeing her next year as she is only 10 days old and too young to travel at this time.
“After discreet inquiry, it was determined that the oldest person present was Dukes McGovern of Indianapolis, who was 91 years old yesterday. The youngest person present was Christian DelGatto, who was brought by his grandmother, Debra K Genevieve Dalrymple was the person who traveled the farthest to get to the reunion, and received a navy blue tote bag embroidered with ‘Littell Reunion 8/8/1999’ along with an outline of the United States, and a star over North Vernon. Louise Wilber traveled the least distance
“Judy Smith from Madison was the guest of Billie and Don Dalrymple.
“Genevieve Dalrymple displayed a memory book which had been compiled by Octa Sladek. It contained pictures and newspaper clippings about early reunions. Donnell Littell volunteered to take the book and add it to the information he is compiling on Littell family history. This book can continue information, recipes, pictures and so forth. Donnell’s computer has a scanner which will reproduce the pictures. The family is looking forward to seeing a prototype of the book at the next reunion.
“Trivia Questions was played... Bette Littell got the most correct answers .
“After the trivia game Littell-O was played, with prizes of Billie’s homemade apple butter being won by Hazel Garrett, Janetta Littell, George McCorkle, Louise Wilber, Genevieve Dalrymple and Judy Smith.
“Billie Dalrymple consented to be activities chairman again next year.
“The rest of the afternoon was spent in reminiscing and catching up on news of members of the family.
“Those present were: Genevied Dalrymple, Casa Grande, Ariz.; Billie and Don Dalrymple, Casa Grande, and their guest, Judy Smith. From Indianapolis were Lester McGovern and Don Hubbard. From Greenfield were Hazel Garrett and George and Lottie McCorkle. From Seymour, Lester Jones, Ken and Charlotte Lovegrove and Dale and Joshua Southerland. From Columbus, Debra Klepper. From Veron, Christian DelGatto. From North Vernon, Louise Wilber, Donnell and Bette Littell. “The 79th Littell Reunion will be held the second Sunday in August in the year 2000, at the North Vernon, Indiana City Park.” (Details of the 2000 reunion have not been received. If any reader would like to have information for the 2001 reunion you may contact Narlon Chester Littell, RR 5, North Vernon, Indiana 47265 2001 REUNION
Bill and Gloria Littell will once again be hosting the meeting of Littell Families of America on Saturday 18 August 2001. Their farm is located in Beaver Co, PA., just north of the junction of US 30 and PA 18. The phone number at the farm is (724) 378-2835. You can also e-mail Bill for more details - [email protected] There is room for self- contained trailers, RVs. etc. at the farm. Raccoon State Park is only 2 miles down the road and has both cabins and campsites. Web site: [email protected]. pa. us
NEW MEMBERS
David Kim Hickman (#1312, p. 867, LFH&G) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania recently became a member of the family association, Littell Families of America. He was born 14 January 1957 in East Liverpool, Ohio, a son of Lester Ansley & Elaine (Trylor) Hickman, a descendant in the Squire William line. David grew up in Barranquilla, Columbia. He later earned a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Latin American Studies at Kent State University, with honors, as well as a Master’s in International Relations in 1984. He earned a Legal Assistant Certificate at Robert Morris College and completed one year (1 996-97) at Duquesne University School of Law. David authored The M:19, Urban Guerrilla Warfare in Columbia in 1985, among other works. From 1990 through 1991 David worked as a paralegal for the City of Pittsburgh, Department of Law; and since 1995 has been Chief Clerk in that city’s Department of Law. Previously he worked in the office of Senator John Glenn. David is unmarried. Additional new members included Richard G. Owens of Lakeland, Florida; Gerald L. Smith of Wheat Ridge, Colorado; Edward D. Bristle of Grove City, OH; and Elma B. Mitchell of Pasadena, Texas.
BOOK REVIEWS
(From Everton’s Genealogical Helper, July/August 1998, page 189. Author is #46, page 153 LFH&G) 661-9
FAMILY RECORDS, OR GENEALOGIES OF THE FIRST SETTLER OF PASSAIC VALLEY (AND VICINITY) ABOVE CHATHAM — WITH THEIR ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS SO FAR AS CAN NOW BE ASCERTAINED. 1852 (1997) By John LITTELL, available from Family Line Publications, Rear 63 E. Main St., Westminster, MD 21157. Soft-cover, 5 3/8 x 8 %, 504 pages, $43.50 ppd. This reprint brings this early classic New Jersey genealogy source to light once gain, It contains hundreds of family genealogies, presented in alphabetical order, for families who at one time lived in the Passaic Valley (present day Essex and Morris Counties). Material varies by family but generally gives vital data, children and their spouses. Among families with the most data or generations are ALLEN, BAKER, BONNEL, CULDWELL, CRANE, DY, DOD, DOTY, HAND, KIRKPATRICK, LITTELL, MILLER, POTTER, ROSS, SHOTWELL, SMALLEY, SQUIER, THOMPSON, TOWNLEY, TUCKER, WHITAKER, and WILLCOCKSE.
(From Kentucky Explorer, January 2000, page 108. Author is # 804, page 585, LFH&G) LAUREL COUNTY HOODS
Hoods of Laurel County by Judge Noble K. Littell is a recently published book on the family history of the ancestors and descendants of his grandfather, William Arad Hood (1863-1941). He was a distiller of whiskey at Keavy, Laurel County, Kentucky. Revenue officers would visit the site, place stamps on the barrels, and “Rad” would then haul his product to nearby London to be bottled and sold. He married Mary Martha Arnold, the daughter of William Bramlett and Anna (Storm) Arnold. His mother, America “Meck” Barton, was a liberated woman before it was politically correct for a female to be independent. She owned real estate and had children before she was married. Meck’s husband, Washington L. Hood, a Confederate soldier during the Civil War was a son of James and Mary (Littell/Little) Hood. The book is hardbound with 200-plus pages, and contains 231 photographs. The price is $35.00 plus $3.20 priority mail postage. To order contract Judge Noble K. Littell, 1219 Katcalani Ave., Sebring, FL 33870
JAMES ALLEN LITTELL
(1849-1922)
(The following article was taken from the Souvenir Edition of the Williamstown Courier, Williamstown, KY, 30 May 1901, reprinted 19 September 1981 by the Grant County Kentucky Historical and submitted by Rose Demartino of Salem, Oregon. James Allen Littell is # 119, p 787, LFH&G) “JAMES A. LITTELL is a son of James M. and Sarah (Sipple) Littell, and was born in Grant County, June 8, 1849. His grandfather was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His father was a Missourian, while his mother was a native Kentuckian. There were eight children in his father’s family, three boys and five girls, four of whom are yet living. He was born and reared to manhood on his father’s farm. He went to school in the winter and assisted in the manifold duties incumbent on a farmer in the summer. His education was limited to the common schools. For a number of years he owned and operated his distillery a short distance from Williamstown, but later sold out his distilling interests and embarked in the retail liquor business near Williamstown. He was married June 16, 1869, to Miss Barbara Gouge, daughter of the old war horse of Democracy, T. J. Gouge. To this union five children have been born, only two of whom are now living, Zadah, a very handsome young lady, and Told, the handsome and intelligent youngster of ten or twelve years. In politics Mr. Littell is a Democrat, and has never voted anything else than the Democratic ticket. He is kind- hearted and a man of good impulses.”
ELIZABETH JUNE “ELLIE” MOSER
(The following is taken from an article appearing in the Louisville Courier Journal, 19 April 1999, and was contributed by Helen Miller Moser. Ellie is # 1116, page 1220, LFH&G, d/o Randall Lee & Constance Lee (Brock) Moser) “Intermission is usually a time to get out of the spotlight but 17-year-old Ellie Moser of Floyd Knobs was the star attraction during a break in yesterday’s Indiana University Southeast Orchestra Concert at the Paul W. Ogle Cultural and Community Center in New Albany. “During a surprise presentation, the award-winning cellist received a giant-sized $15,000 scholarship check to Indiana University’s School of Music as one of four Indiana high school student winners of the 1999 Thomson STAR scholarships for the performing arts. "The scholarships are awarded by Thomson Consumer Electronics in Carmel, Ind. In March, at Butler University, applicants were judged on auditions, interviews. academic performance and essays. Deborah Ellman of Thomson said winners are an 'elite club' that the company follows through college. "Ellie has also received a scholarship from Thomson for her performance in a Side-by-Side, a concert in which High School students performed alongside members of the Indianapolis Symphony. “After yesterday’s lU Southeast concert in which Ellie played, she said the check was ‘a huge surprise.’ She’s still deciding whether to go to Indiana University or the Julliard School and said the new scholarship money does shed a new light’ on the situation. She is still waiting to hear about scholarship offers from Julliard. “She plans to pursue a career in music and would love to be a solo performer. ‘That’s my highest wish,’ she said. “Joanna Goldstein, dean of humanities and a professor of music at lU Southeast, conducted yesterday’s concert and remarked on Ellie’s talents afterward. ‘She’s an extraordinary gifted young woman,‘ Goldstein said. “The scholarship check is the latest honor for Ellie, daughter of Randy and Connie Moser. The home schooled student who studies cello with Helga Winold at Indiana University, has been a winner in the Louisville Orchestra’s Young Artists competition and a featured soloist with the Louisville Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony and the Jewish Community Center Orchestra. “Ellie takes classes at Indiana University Southeast in addition to her home studies. “She studied several years with Louisville Orchestra cellist Louise Harris and still studies at times with Harris and orchestra cellist Susannah Onwood. She performed recently at the University of Louisville School of Music with her camber group, the Vegtets.”
BITS GARNERED FROM THE INTERNET
Let us face reality. The Internet is now an integral facet of World Society and it is only natural that we use the pages of our magazine to pass on bits and pieces of pertinent Littell information gathered from that source. Such data is not normally considered a primary source but a reporting of what others have encountered in their research. It provides a springboard to additional information.
James Littell (1832-1903) (This excerpt is taken from e-mail correspondence involving Sue Johnpeter and Ed Powell and reports data from a family Bible though ownership of the Bible is not clear. The connection with known Littell lines is not determined at this time.
“James Littell, b. 7 March 1831 near Plainfield, Union County, NJ; ft 12 September 1903 at home in Fairview, Illinois. Married Katherine ‘Kate’ Van Duyne 3 April 1852, Reformed Parsonage, Millstone, NJ. She was born 7 March 1870; died 4 December 1920, Fairview, IL. They had 9 children, 4 died young and are buried in the Foster Cemetery, Fairview.. The remaining five were: “John Henry Littell, b. 19 January 1853, NJ, d. 4 September 1880. Lived in Monmouth, Illinois. “Mrs. Margaret Dreyer, (Margaret Van Duyne Littell), lived in Clinton, Iowa. “Charles B. H. Littell, b. 25 January 1859, lived in Clinton, Iowa. “Mrs. Anna Kate Frayer, b. 18 September 1864; d. 13 July 1942, lived in St. Louis, Missouri. “Mrs. Maria Carlysle
“Those deceased were: William Edgar Littell, b. 8 June 1862; d. 13 August 1863. Jennie Littell, b. 27 March 1867; d. 24 September 1869. Hattie Littell, b. 15 December 1872; d. 9 February 1879. Nettle Littell, b. 6 June 1876.
“John Henry Littell married Louise Johnson, she was born 20 May 1880. They were parents of Hattie Littell, b. 23 January 1862 and Edith Littell, b. 4 November 1885, Fairview, IL; d. 14 February 1968, Dallas, Texas.”
Monte Littell is found in several Internet items on the occasion of his appointment as superintendent of schools in Everett, Washington. We have not been able to connect him with any known Littell line. Here follows some facts from The Seattle Times via the internet. Age 60 in 1998 he grew up in Montana and Idaho and spent his career at two districts in Nevada and Arizona. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Montana and a master’s degree from Northern Arizona University. From 1964 through 1992, he held a variety of positions in the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, including teacher and research and staff development specialist. He earned a doctorate in educational leadership from Brigham Young University in 1984. In 1992, he joined the Tucson School district as an associate superintendent of teaching and learning overseeing 106 schools and earning $120,500 annually.
There was no other personal data given in the article.
Julia Littell, Assistant Professor of Social Work and Social Research was the subject of another Internet article, she has not been identified. She was given a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation to study intensive in-home services in child welfare. Part of a rigorous national evaluation of family preservation services, the study involves the collection and analysis of longitudinal data on 500 families in the Philadelphia public child welfare system according to the article dated May 16, 1997. No personal information was included.
Katherine M. Littell, listed as “of Harvard University”, was the subject of an article reprinted from an item appearing in the John Muir News/oiler in the Spring of 1992. It in turn was a digest of a short essay about early Yosemite artists. She is referred to as “Professor Littell” and is undoubtedly # 856, page 827, LFH&G, daughter of the late Norman Mather Littell.
Our files also contain a newsy 2 page Christmas and New Year’s letter for 1999 from Katherine. Part of her travels involved a flight to Washington, DC to search for her maternal great-grandfather, Dr. Mathew Maher, among the Confederate records at the National Archives. Her odyssey was extended to include participation in a tour to Richmond, Appomattox, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans. Her extensive research travels included Ohio research into her father’s family, a trip to Sutro Library in San Francisco and the Latter Day Saints Library in Salt Lake City. She lives in Twain Harte, California. MORE FROM THE INTERNET
Cero Norris Littell. (# 199, p. 520, LFH&G) “My great grandfather, Cero Norris Littell, was a railroad engineer in Missouri and designed the standard coupler still in use [ locomotive engineers of that era had to be mechanical engineers]. His son, Charles Cero Littell, Sr., hitched rides enough that all the crews knew him, and later he was proud to have been inducted as an “Honorary Hobo”, a serious and somber ceremony. He moved to design boilers and carriages for the Barney and Smith car works, until that company was bankrupted by the enormous flood of 1913. When I grew up in the 1960’s, a rail spur ran through the woods adjacent to my property, and I befriended the crew; they would pick me up every day and let me hop off and pick up their hamburgers for lunch at a neighborhood diner, sometimes letting me drive and even drop off coal cars in the area—my grandfather was pleased.” (From Charles Cero Littell, III, [email protected]
The following related data was from another source: “Grandpa Cero Norris Littell wasn’t a RR engineer, he was a freight yard superintendent at St. Jo Mo., then same for ANHEUSER-BUSCH; Co-inventor of the modern automatic car coupler. I’ve just uncovered the LITTELL’S LIVING AGE for 1990; page 7 has an abstract of the St. Louis City Directory for 1920, including — ‘LITTELL, Cena (CERO11) N. (Norris, Supt. Refrigerated Car Co., h. 3450 S. Grand’ The Busch’s wanted to keep beer cold shipping through Texas so started that plant making refrigerator cars and put G’Pa in charge. When his (2nd) wife died the whole plant shut down to attend the funeral for Mary; Mom said she was killing g/pa with her fine pies and cakes! He had divorced his first wife, Dora Schmidt, mother of CCL, Sr. Mary’s last name was MEEDER.
“Pawpaw no doubt hitched rides on locomotives but he was a paying passenger, as usual, traveling as a power plant trouble shooter for the BROWNELL COMPANY as a combustion Engineer Designer for 35 years when he met the King of the Hoboes riding free who gave dad his honorary membership card which I have. Pawpaw came to Dayton with Mom in 1910 (married 1907, I have their certificate)
William Cornell Little
William Cornell Little. “Sir: I am a descendant of William Little, the youngest son of William Cornell Littell (# 96, p. 366, LFH&G) of Lebanon, Warren Co., Ohio. In the information I received from people at “family treemaker” they had William, b. November 2, 1835, as having married Mary Ann Osborn in 1853. I have William’s family Bible and on the marriage page it says that he and Elizabeth Worley of Danville, Vermillion Co., Ill. Were married in Marsha Marshall Co., Iowa on November 23, 1865. I am a g-grandson of his. Do you have any information on what happened to Mary Ann Osborn? Birth date, date of death, family? Also if you wish the lineage of William down to the current date I will be very happy to send it to you. I am impressed by the amount of information that I received that came from your books, “The Littell Family History and Genealogy”. I thank you for all the information that you have uncovered on this branch descending from Phillip Stokely Littell. Sincerely, William E. Little [email protected]
Our reply - . . . There were several intermarriages between the Littell/Little and the Osborn/Osborne families. My notes are now stored in our Littell Library on the Littell Horse Farm near Aliquipp, PA so I can’t give you an immediate reply to details of any marriage of William (b. 1835) and Mary Ann Osborne. You pointed out that family treemaker records indicate they were married in 1853. Checking our publication, Littell Families History & Genealogy, I discovered what I think is a typographical error, if not a mistake in fact. The book shows their marriage was 5 Oct 1843 in Warren Co, OH
(William’s reply) — “Noble: This is what I have on our family since 1865. . . John & lnez are buried where their parents are buried, Akron, CO. Drew & Amy Grace are buried in Fort Collins, CO. . . of the THIRD GENERATION only Evelyn Little Foster is still alive. . . In the FOURTH GENERATION James, John, Jr., and I are all doing family research and I have given both Jim and John all the information I have gathered from www.familvtreemaker.com, www.genforum.com and others who have corresponded with me about various family ancestors. As for Holly Buskirk (#13 12, p. 643, LFH&G), I have known her since before her two boys were born. I first met her when we were both in the Maine Corps here at 29 Palms, where I retired from the Corps in 1982. Since 1985 I have been a Minister in the Presbyterian Church, USA,
“FIRST GENERATION — 1. William Little (#272, p. 366, LFH&G) b. November 2, 1835, Lebanon, Warren Ca, Ohio. S William Cornell & Darcus (Dorcus) Liggeti Little . . .He told his grandchildren (my fathers generation) that he had served in an Illinois Regiment as a drummer boy during the Civil War (unconfirmed yet by military records). On November 23, 1865 he married Elizabeth Worley, b. 1842 at Danville, II!. They were married by Rev. John A. Long, witnessed by John Custer & Mattie Cranson . . William Little d. April 1914, Akron, CO, his wife Elizabeth, d. October 12, 1910, Akron . . .Mr. Little was an active member of the Masonic organization . . . He was a charter member of Akron Lodge #74, F&AM, The York Rite Bodies in Akron, and of El Jabel Shrine in Denver, Co.
The following 12 pages were provided by William E. Little and pasted here from an original print in the same form as Littell Families History & Genealogy, based on the format in the Roots 3 program. WILLIAM LITTELL/LITTLE LINE
(Contributed by William E. Little)
FIRST GENERATION
1. William1 Littell, son of William Cornell Littell and Dorcas Liggett. Born, 2 Nov 1835, in Warren OH. He married Elizabeth Worley, 5 Oct 1843, in Warren Co, OH. Born, 1842, in Danville, IL. Children:
2 i. Harriet2 Littell. Born, 16 Mar 1867, in Marshall Co, IA. Died, 12 Jul 1874, in Butler Cc, NE. 3 ii. Frank B. Littell. Born, 9 Oct 1868, in Marshall Co, IA. Died, 29 May 1878, in Butler Cc, NE. 4 iii. Netta M. Littell. Born, 17 Feb 1872, in Saunders Cc, NE. Died, 4 Jul 1874, 6 in Dutler Co, NE. ÷ 5 iv. John Howard Littell. + 6 v. Harry Drew Littell. 7 vi. Bessie Littell. Born, 13 Aug 1884, in Butler Co, NE. Died, 9 Sep 1884, in Butler Co, NE.
SECOND GENERATION
5. John Howard2 Littell (William, 1) . Born, 19 Aug 1875, in Butler Co, NE. Died, 27 Aug 1944, in Del Norte, Co. He married Inez Ailene Garfield, daughter of Maurice Emory Garfield and Ella Eleanaor Wyman. Born, 1879, in Chautauqua Co, NY. Died, 1907, in Washington Co, CO. Children:
+ 8 i. Amy Grace3 Littell. + 9 ii. William Garfield Littell. + 10 iii. Inez Ailene Littell.
6. Harry Drew2 Littell (William, 1). Born, 19 Mar 1879, in Butler Co, NE. Died, 4 Jul l962,.in Fort Collins, CO.
He married Amy Grace Garfield, daughter of Maurice Emory Garfield and Ella Eleanaor Wyman, 1 May 1901. Children:
+ 11 i. William Maurice3 Littell. + 12 ii. John Russell Littell. 13 iii. Eugene Littell. + 14 iv. Harry Drew Littell Jr. 15 v. Evelyn Littell. Born, 1913, in Akron, CO. She married Ray Foster.
THIRD GENERATION
8. Amy Grace3 Littell (John Howard, 5) . Born, 1900, in Akron, CO. Died, circa 1960, in Sun City, AZ.
She married Elmer Kinderdick, 1921. Children:
16 i. Betty Jean I Born, 1923. Died, 1937.
9. William Garfield3 Littell (John Howard, 5) Born, 3 Jul 1902, in Akron, CO. Died, 2 Oct 1995, in Del Norte, Co.
He married lone Belle Dougherty. Born, 30 Nov 1904, in Medora, KS. Died, 14 Oct 1996, in Del Norte, CO. Children:
+ 17 i. William Eugene Littell. 18 ii. John Everett Littell. Born, 7 Mar 1929, in Brawley, CA.
10. Inez Ailene3 Littell (John Howard, 5) . Born,1904, in Akron, Co. Died, 1967, in Portland, OR.
She married Edward Thompson in Fort Collins, CO. Children:
19 i. Howard Thompson. Born, 1927. Died, 1990. 20 ii. Lawrence Thompson. Born, 1928. Died, 1987. 21 iii. Raymond Thompson. Born, 1929. Died, 1992. 22 iv. Robert Thompson. Born, 1930. Died, 1987. 23 v. Theodore Thompson. Born, 1933. 24 vi. Carole Thompson. Born, 1935. 11 William Maurice3 Littell (Harry Drew, 6) . Porn, 1902, in Akron, CO. Died, 1987, in Goodland, KS.
He married Zella Elsie Guy. Porn, 1902. Died, 20 1991, in Hoxie, KS. Children:
+ 25 i. James Drew4 Littell. ÷ 26 ii. Janetta Jo Littell.
12. John Russell3 Littell (Harry Drew, 6) . Born, 1904, in Akron, CO. Died, 1987, in Boulder, CO. He married Alberta Powell. Born, 1906. Died, 1997. Children:
+ 27 i. John Russell4 Littell Jr. 28 ii. Richard Littell. Born, 1935. Died, 1935. + 29 iii. Shirley Jean Littell.
13. Eugene3 Littell (Harry Drew, 6) . Born, 1907, in Akron, CO. Died, 1988, in Wellington, CO.
He married Helen Drake. Children:
30 i. Mary Ann4 Littell. 31 ii. Tom Littell. He married Janet {?}.
14. Harry Drew3 Littell Jr. (Harry Drew, 6) . Born, 1909, in Akron, CO. Died, 1996, in Fort Collins, Co.
He married Margaret Hubbard. Died, 1998. Children:
+ 32 i. William Harry4 Littell.
FOURTH GENERATION
17. William Eugene4 Littell (William Garfield, 9) Born, 31 Jul 1927, in Turlock, CA. Resided, 2000, in Del Norte, CO, winter, 29 Palms, CA, summer. Occupation: Minister/Teacher. Data contributor. He retired from the Marine 4 Corps as a Master Sergeant, taught school in Colorado and Kansas, attended seminary and was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), from which he is now also retired.
He married Charlene Susan Taylor, daughter of Frank Valentine Taylor and Halla Marie Smith, 5 Feb 1948, in Gunnison, CO. Born, 31 Jul 1927, in Denver, CO. Children:
33 i. Susan Marie5 Littell. Born, 12 Feb 1949, in Denver, CO. She married Donald Eugene Culbertson. 34 ii. Patricia lone Littell. Born, 27 Jul 1951, in Gunnison, CO. She married Clayton Duro in Honolulu, HI. 35 iii. William Frank Littell. Born, 10 Apr 1954, in Syracuse, KS. He married Patricia Ann Cull. 36 iv. Charles Robert Littell. Born, 22 Mar 1958, in Sterling, CO.
25. James Drew4 Littell (William Maurice, 11) . Born, 1934.
He married Margaret Gail Warren. Born, 1938, in Los Alamos, NM. Children:
÷ 37 i. Brenda Gay5 Littell. 38 ii. Cynthia Kay Littell. Born, 1961. ÷ 39 iii. Nancy Renae Littell.
26. Janetta Jo4 Littell (William Maurice, 11) . Born, 1937.
She married, first, Darrell Williams. Born, 1935. Died, 1993. Children:
+ 40 i. Brett Allan Williams 41 ii. Timothy Lyn Williams. Born, 1962.
She married, second, Lee Mills.
27. John Russell4 Littell Jr. (John Russell, 12) Born, 1932.
He married Joanne Jean Bartelma. Born, 1935. Children:
+ 42 i. David Russell5Littell. 43 ii. Mark Douglas Littell. Born, 1961. + 44 iii. Robert Michael Littell.
29. Shirley Jean4 Littell (John Russell, 12) . Born, 1937. Died, 1993, in Rome, Italy.
She married John Drew Elliott. Children:
+ 45 i. John5 Elliott. + 46 ii. Denise Elliott.
32. William Harry4 Littell (Harry Drew Jr., 14). He married Barbara {?}. Children:
47 1. Robert5 Littell. 48 ii. William Littell. 49 iii. Barbara Littell.
FIFTH GENERATION
37. Brenda Gay5 Littell (James Drew, 25) . Born, 1959.
She married Steve Finch. Children;
50 i. Nathan James6 Finch. 51 ii. Samuel Aaron Finch. 52 iii. Michael Andrew Finch.
39. Nancy Renae5 Littell (James Drew, 25) . Born, 1964.
She married James Craven. Children:
53 i. James Elias6 Craven.
40. Brett Allan5 Williams. Born, 1960.
He married Carol Ostrenga. Children: 54 i. Vance Christopher6 Williams. Born, 1984. 55 ii. Rhonda Lee Williams. Born, 1987.
42. David Russell Littell (John Russell Jr., 27). Born, 1958.
He married Cecelia Ann Grey. Born, 1957. Children:
56 i. Robert Brian6 Littell. Born, 1990. 57 ii. Michelle Joanne Marie Littell. Born, 1992.
44. Robert Michael5 Littell (John Russell Jr., 27). Born, 1965.
He married Jennifer Marie Halbach. Born, 1965. Children:
58 i. Christopher John6 Littell1 991. Born, 1994 59 ii. Brandon Thomas Littell. Born, 1994.
45. John5 Elliott. Born, 1961.
He married Jana {?}. Children:
60 i. Jana6 Elliott.
46. Denise5 Elliott. Born, 1962.
She married Howard Williams. Children:
61 i. Paul6 Williams. 62 ii. Robbie Williams.
QUERIES
From: P.L. Savage < [email protected] > To: < [email protected] >
Date: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 4:29 PM Subject: cemetery
Judge Littell: In Jackson county, Missouri Cemeteries Vol I, I have a record of Elizabeth Little wife born 13 Oct 1826 died 31 Dec 1869 43y 2m lad. This is in St. Clair Cemetery. No other Little is in this cemetery. Anyone looking for this lady? PLS
(Pearl Lucile {Jackson} Savage, 900 W. 6th St., Apt 12A, Beardstown, IL 62618)
A query from Diane Lovas, 23921 July Avenue, Scandia, MN 55073 - Please let me give you what information I have:
“I found out 7 years ago that my biological grandfather is someone I never knew about. I was raised until the age of 37 thinking a wonderful man named David Wiley Waugh was my grandfather. My biological grandfather’s name was Robert William Littell, born in November 1926. He married my grandmother, Verna Olson, in March 1926, my father was conceived on Labor Day. Robert was in the army and according to my grandmother, after he learned of her pregnancy, she never saw him again. Roberts mother’s name is Alt and I think his father’s name was also Robert. Robert William was raised in Grand Rapids, Mich, I believe my grandfather was a contractor. He had three brothers, Larry, Baird, and a third, a twin, died early. He [ died at the age of 65.
“My grandfather married two more times and had two more sons. The reason for my letter, I am looking for these two half-uncles. My great grandmother, Alta Littell, was a great granddaughter of a Senator. Her maiden name was Lawson. The information I have is primarily from my 89- year-old grandmother.” Diana Lovas, (651) 464-1939.
(Our records differ slightly, but it would appear that Wa Diane’s lost ancestor was Robert William Littell [ 417, p. aol 267, LFH&G], son of Leon Baylard and Alta (Lawson) Littell. als Jean Michael Littell, a member of Littell Families of America, was a son of Leon and his second wife. The last address [ we have for Jean Michael Littell is 11691 Linden Drive, Marne, Ml 49435-9760. NkI)
(From Sue Johnpeter, 1037 Augustana Drive, Naperville, Illinois 60563. # 1579, p. 476, LFH&G)
“I am organizing files and came across some Nebraska Littell references. Do you know where they plug in? In the Cedar County News of April 19, 1900 (Hartington) a marriage license was issued to Charles W. Littell and Mary Rose Cooke of St. James.
From the Wynot Public Cemetery (Nebraska): William Littell, b. 12-4-1931, d. 8-1-1902; Eleanor Littell, b. 6-15- 1906, d. 1-9-1906 and two stones “Infant son of C. and M. Littell” one b. in 1908, the other in 1910. No death date was given.
“Also, have a series of very sad newspaper stories from Hoopeston, II, about Mrs. Isaac Littell (Elizabeth Ada Gibson) who was b. in NYC, m. Isaac F. Littell 12-2-1840 was struck by a passenger train in Hoopeston, II.” Sue has several newspaper clippings of this tragedy. I do not have a connection in my files. - Nkl
Also from Sue ( [email protected] ) “My brother, John Littell, wrote a book called “French Impressions” last year. The website listed below has an online interview with him, and I think you might just get a kick out of it. And Him
“< http://www.thewag.net > Veni, Vidi, Wagic/A> for aol users or http://www.thewag.net for the non aol’ers.” (See John Smith Littell, # 1577, p. 464, LFH&G, also more on the next section)
AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN S. LITTELL
by Caroline Kettlewell
Memoirist John S. Littell discusses the challenges of writing a memoir in his mother’s voice and tells us why he doesn’t think raising an ‘international kid’ is a good idea.
WAG: What inspired you to write French Impressions?
Littell: My mother had retyped the magazine stories she had written about our trip to France and had bound them for my sister as a Christmas present in the early 1970s. The manuscript sat in the trunk for more than twenty years until my sister casually mentioned it to me one day. Out of curiosity, I read it. Although it wasn’t publishable as it was, I thought it had potential--especially because of the success of Peter Mayle’s A Year In Provence.
What was more important, I knew my mother would have been delighted to see the book in print. She would have loved to do signings and answer questions for WAG and generally ham it up.
WAG: In the introduction you write, “I chose The young Mr. Littell at the ancient Roman to write this book from my mother’s point of arena in Aries view and in her voice because that was the only John S. Littell is a writer and former publishing way the story made sense to me.” Was this a executive. He lives in New York City. His mother, decision you had come to before you began Mary W. Littell, was a successful journalist in the writing? The voice is so natural that the reader 1950s and 1960s, recularlv contributing to quickly forgets it is written by a son women’s magazines such as Parents and Woman’s “impersonating” his mother. How difficult was Day. it to assume that voice?
Littell: I had three choices to make before I began writing. First, I could have done a third-person narration, but that seemed clumsy to me. Second, I could have told the story through my own four-year-old eyes. Faulkner might have pulled it off; as he did with Benjy in The Sound and the Fury, but, hey, Faulkner’s Faulkner. That left writing in my mother’s voice--the easy way out. I had in front of me her literary output, and because I am an adaptive writer (read: no style of my own), I soon picked up the rhythm and cadence of her prose. I also had the benefit of knowing her for thirty years, so I was familiar with the way she wrote and spoke.
My inability to deliver a unique style is both a curse and a blessing, probably caused by my early days as a newspaper reporter and as an advertising copywriter. In those fields, a distinctive voice is anathema, while the ability to mimic gets the bonuses. Even today, when I am working on a project, I hesitate to read good writers for fear of picking up their styles. One day I’m knocking out staccato Hemingwayesque sentences; the next day, each paragraph is two pages long. (Thanks a lot, Faulkner.) I’m just glad I laid off Poe and Joyce while writing French Impressions. The results would have been catastrophic. I tried to get the tone right and to keep it right throughout the book. That was difficult because I found that--naturally-- my personality kept seeping through. Piles of good copy never made it into print because the tone was wrong.
I would like to say that it was spooky to write in my mothers voice, but it really wasn’t. I thought of the work as both a challenge and a way to finally get her story in print--a kind of memorial, I suppose.
Frustratingly, there were gaps in the narrative that were th impossible to fill. My mother’s sometimes cryptic diary entries drove me up the wall: “Remember the hilarious story about the blue hat and the sheep” and “Mme. Duchamps, how I hate her!” What the hell did those references mean? No one will ever know; they are gone forever. So I stuck to the material that was published and unpublished and added the family stories I had heard all my life,
Oddly, when I was four years old, I had to interpret for my mother. Fifty years later, I’m still interpreting for her.
WAG: Although in many respects your family became part of the neighborhood, in other ways throughout the book it is apparent that your mother in particular remained steadfastly, confidently, and unashamedly American--clearly influenced by the recent experience of an World War II. In the end your parents’ decision to return to the U.S. after a year, rather than stay in France, came us about because, as your father states it, “I don’t want my kids to be international kids. I want them to be Americans.” From your own perspective, how do you feel W about your parents’ decision? Do you wish you had had more time in France to build your own memories of the experience? Do you think parents are more comfortable today with shuttling their kids around the globe?
Littell: Of course, I had no say in the decision to return to the in US. Five-year-olds in those days tended to defer to their l parents’ wishes--at least on important matters. But having known many “international kids,” I can say without hesitation that I would never want to be one of them. They are people without a country, without a culture, and without any idea how to get along with Americans. The word “clueless” was invented especially for them. They can speak eight languages, but they know no slang in any one of them. They have seen the great art of Europe, but not Yankee Stadium. And they dress funny. If you act like an adult when you’re twelve, what do you do when you reach sixty?
Although I may have missed an opportunity to become an “international kid,” I had a happy enough childhood in the United States. (I am writing about those years in a manuscript tentatively called, Susie, Sadly, and the Black Torpedo of Doom.) Even with the Americanization of the world, I think parents should think carefully about ripping a kid away from his roots. Ten years in Yemen may be a great adventure for an adult, but for a child it can be traumatic. The poor kid will never again fit in--anywhere.
WAG: At the end of the book Mary writes, “Since our return, people had often asked me if I would spend a year in France again, knowing all I know now. That was easy to answer: No.” Yet the lighthearted tone of the book belies this answer, suggesting that even the misadventures in France had a certain madcap quality of adventure. Were there more negative details in your mother’s writing that you chose to leave out of the book?
Littell: In reading my mother’s diaries, I found a certain amount of angst. She missed her family and her friends and the life she had left behind. For her, the most difficult part of living in France was the isolation. Her poor grasp of the language made her feel like a child again, bewildered by what was going on around her. Just to hear someone speak English made her happy. I downplayed the negative elements of the trip because they were minor, and chose, instead, to concentrate on the high points.
WAG: You write at the beginning that “all this took place in the dim days before television, jet travel, women’s liberation, and the New Coke.” It was also a time before American culture colonized the world. Do you think the kind of experience your family had in France is even possible any more?
Littell: I think it would be impossible to have the kind of experience we had in 1950--at least in France. As much as they try to fight it, the French are becoming more and more Americanized. On my last trip to France, I stopped in an obscure southern town to get my laundry done. The assistant Laundromat attendant listened to my garbled French for a moment, then said, “Your laundry will be ready at five o’clock. You may pick it up then.” Her English was better than that of her counterpart here in New York. And this was in a village of about six hundred people. And they had a Laundromat!
To experience the total strangeness of a culture, I think you would have to go to parts of Africa or Asia these days-- places where Big Macs are a rarity and the Colonel hasn’t given the chicken finger to the local cuisine. That’s getting harder and harder to do because people around the world, like it or not, love all things American. Once the Soviet Union relaxed its ban on Elvis and blue jeans, it was finished as an empire. France had better watch out.
French Impressions: The Adventures of an American Family
John S. Littell New American Library
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LITTELL - BEAN/BANE
LFH&G did not include the Bean family beyond the five children of Moses & Polly (Corey) Bean. Thanks to Susan Rhodes and Tonie Sorenson we can now extend their progeny a few more generations as set forth on the following several pages.
FIRST GENERATION
1. Absalom1 Littell Sr. Born, before 1710, in Elizabeth, NJ. Died, circa 1785, in Fayette Ca, PA.
He married Esther Pettyjohn, daughter of William Pettyjohn and Elizabeth Claypool, circa 1745, in DE Born, circa 1720, in Sussex Cc, DE. Died, circa 1803, in Fayette Ca, PA. See Chapter 8, LFH&G, page 489. Children:
+ 2 i. Betsey2 Littell. 3 ii. Absalom Littell Jr. Born, 12 Sep 1751, in Sussex Co, DE. Died, 17 Mar 1824, in Clark Co, IN. 4 iii. Deborah Littell. Born, circa 1755, in DE. Died, circa 1829, in Highland Co, OH. 5 iv. Jerusha Littell. Born, 10 Sep 1756, in DE. Died, 27 Feb 1827, in Monroe Ca, IN. 6 v. Esther Littell. Born, circa 1757. 7 vi. Mary Littell. Born, 12 Mar 1762, in DE. Died, 24 Oct 1822, in Greene Co, IN. 8 vii. Abraham Littell. Born, Mar 1779, in PA. 9 viii. Fanny Littell. Born in PA. Died, before 1835.
SECOND GENERATION
2. Betsey2 Littell (Absalom Sr., 1). Born, circa 1746. Died, circa 1790.
She married John Corey. See the Corey chapter (pp 258-277) in Gates and Allied Families by Mary Walton Ferris,. privately printed - 1933. Children:
10 i. Hetty Ann3 Corey. Born, 1769, in MD. Died, 11 Dec 1852, in PA. Hetty married William Roberts, they were parents of eight children. 11 ii. Joshua Corey. Born, circa 1770. Joshua was twice married - 1st - Phebe Darnell; 2nd - Elizabeth Fawcett. He was the father of six children.
+ 12 iii. Polly Corey. 13 iv. Betsey Corey. Born, 8 Feb 1772. Died, 26 Apr 1857. she married Henry Bartlett, son of William Bartlett and Joanna Herrick. It is through Betsey that we make the connection with Cousin Charles Gates Dawes who served as vice president 1925-1929 in the presidency of Calvin Coolidge. About a 4th or 5th cousin to our generation. Republican. 14 v. Ruth Corey. Ruth married three times - a Mr. Wallace; a Mr. Culvert, and a Mr. Horr. She was the mother of three daughters. 15 vi. John Corey. Born, circa 1775. John married Sarah Miller and resettled in Ohio, first in Athens, later to the vicinity of Columbus.
THIRD GENERATION
12. Polly3 Corey. Horn in Fayette Co, PA. flied, Feb 1846, in Athens, OH. The data set forth hereafter in this line was taken from e-mail correspondence from, and between, Susan Rhodes and Antoinette Waughtel Sorenson. Susan lives at 1133 Westcott St., Syracuse, NY 13210, [email protected] ; Tonie at 3631 N. Mullen, Tacoma, PA 98407-4124, [email protected] She married Moses Bean. Born, circa 1767. Children:
+ 16 i. Susannah4 Bean. + 17 ii. Betsey Bean. + 18 iii. McRaven Bean/Bane. 19 iv. Joanna Bean. Born, circa 1798. + 20 v. John Bean.
FOURTH GENERATION
16. Susannah4 Bean. Born, 25 Apr 1793, in Fayette Co, PA. Died, 13 Jan 1860.
She married Elias Gabriel, 25 Dec 1815, in Athens Co, OH. Born, 1789. flied, 1865. Children:
+ 21 i. William Rowell5 Gabriel. 22 ii. Henry Gabriel. Born, 1818. Died, 1822. + 23 iii. Moses B. Gabriel. + 24 iv. Isaac Newton Gabriel. + 25 v. Love Ann Bartlett Gabriel. 26 vi. Diana Gabriel. Born, 1827. Died, 1852. 27 vii. Almira Gabriel. Born, 1833. Died, 1924. 28 viii. Malvina Ruth Gabriel. Born, 1836. Died, 1921. She married John Bowden, 23 Feb 1858, in Athens Co, OH.
17. Betsey4 Bean. Born, circa 1796.
She married James Tipple, 23 Sep 1858, in Athens Co, OH. Children:
+ 29 i. Moses Bane5 Tipple.
18. McRaven4 Bean/Bane. Born, 22 Jul 1797, in VA. Died, 13 Aug 1860, in Miami Co OH.
He married, first, Jemima Bobo, daughter of Jared Bobo and Lucretia Burton, 3 Feb 1820, in Athens. Co, OH. Born, 1801. Died, 1844. Children:
30 i. Lucretia5 Bean. + 32 ii. Lucius Bearce Bane. 35 iii. Angeline Bean. Born, after 1825. 34 iv. Moses M. Bane. Born, after 1025. 33 v. Ziba Bean. Born, after 1825. 36 vi. Mariah Bean. Born, 1827. + 37 vii. {Dr} Garner Horace Bane. 38 viii. Theressa Bean. Born, 1831. Died, 1835. 39 ix. Olive C. Bane. Born, 1834. She married David S. Thompson, 20 Jul 1856, in OH. 40 x. Henrietta Bean/Bane. Born, 1834. She married James R. Ray, 13 Aug 1856, in Adams Co, IL. 41 xi. Malinda Bean. Born, 1838. She married Samuel Nohier, 28 Jul 1860, in Athens Co OH. 42 xii. Josephine Sane. Born, 1840. She married David H. Mason, 15 Feb 1860, in Adams Co, IL. 43 xiii. John Sane. Born, 1842. Hie married, second, Nancy Bobo, daughter of Garner Bobo, 9 Jun 1851, in Montgomery Co, OH. Born, circa 1803, in OH. Children:
31 xiv. Joanna Bean. Born, circa 1798. She married Isaac Johnson, 3 Oct 1806.
20. John4 Bean. Born, circa 1846, in PA. Died, 12 Nov 1873, in Adans Corn IL. He married Betsey Tibbette. Children:
+ 44 i. Charles5 Bean. + 45 ii. Almira Charlotte Bean. 46 iii. Patience Elizabeth Bean. Born, circa 1835, in IL. She married John F. Dempsey. ÷ 47 iv. Olive Sylvia Bean. 48 v. Henry H. Bean. Born, circa 1840, in IL.
FIFTH GENERATION
21. William Rowell5 Gabriel. Born, 19 Jan 1817, in Athens Co, OH. Died, 1872.
He married, first, Sarah Elizabeth Collins. Died, 1908. Children:
+ 53 i. Effie6 Gabriel. 54 ii. Charles Gabriel. Born, 1865, in Spencer Co, KY. Occupation: Saddlemaker. He married Katie Feldman. He married, second, Mary S. Green. Born, circa 1820. Children:
+ 49 iii. Susannah Gabriel. 50 iv. Melissa Gabriel. Born, circa 1843, in IL. 51 v. Francis N. Gabriel. Born, circa 1845 in IL. + 52 vi. Emma Jane Gabriel.
23. Moses B5. Gabriel. Born, 1820. Died, 1879.
He married Mary Johnson. Born, 1813, in Ireland. Died, 1900, in Athens, OH. Children:
55 i. Elias6 Gabriel. Born, circa 1839. + 56 ii. {Dr} George Warren Gabriel. 57 iii. Susan Gabriel. Born, circa 1846. She married James Wells. 58 iv. Barbara Gabriel. Born, circa 1849. 59 v. Christina Gabriel. She married James Dixon. 60 vi. Elmer Gabriel. Died, 1896. 61 vii. Emmett Gabriel. Died, 1888.
24. Isaac Newton5 Gabriel. Born, 1822. Died, 1873.
He married Cleopatra Cotton, 12 Mar 1850, in Athens Co., OH. Children:
+ 62 i. Ernest I.6 Gabriel. 63 ii. Jane Gabriel. Born, 1852. she married (Dr} Samuel Dunkle, 25 Jan 1875, in Muscatine Co., IA. 64 iii. Mary Dunreathe Gabriel. Born, 1854. She married George T. Hedges, 9 Sep 1874. 65 iv. Charles Hutchinson Gabriel. Born, 18 Aug 1856, in Muscatine Co, IA. He married Priscilla Woodhouse. 66 v. Melita Gabriel. Born, 1859. she married Thomas R. Rich, 3 Dec 1883, in Carroll Co, IA. 67 vi. Horatio Mortimer Gabriel. Born, 1860. He married Ella Bell Stevens, 5 Apr 1885, in Muscatine Co, IA. 68 vii. Elgiva May Gabriel. Born, 1863. She married William Dorwart Harris, 7 Sep 1887, in Muscatine Co, IA. 69 viii. Nellie Marianna Bane Gabriel. Born, 12 Apr 1868. Died, 1946. She married Samuel Lee Kay, 14 Oct 1891.
5 25. Love Ann Bartlett Gabriel.
She married, first, Joseph Bolleau. Children: 70 i. Alexander6 Bolleau. Born, 1846. Died, 1923. + 71 ii. Emily Almira Bolleau. 72 iii. Joseph Franklin Bolleau. Born, 1850. Died, 1928. She married, second, Samuel Catlin. Children:
73 iv. Eliza Ann Catlin. Born, 1856, in OH. Died, 1938. 74 v. John Elias Catlin. Born, 1860, in OH. 75 vi. Susan Arabelle Catlin. Born, 1862, in OH. Died, 1949. 76 vii. Hattie Malvina Catlin. Born, 1866, in OH. Died, 1955.
29. Moses Bane5 Tippie. Born, circa 1831, in OH.
He married, first, Linor B. Cremean. Children:
77 i. Josephine6 Tipple. Born, circa 1852, in OH. 78 ii.. Elizabeth Tipple. Born, circa 1856.
He married, second, Susan 0. Heffner, 13 Aug 1857, in Auglaize, OH. Children:
79 iii. Edward Tippie. Born, circa 1858. 80 iv. Mary J. Tippie. Born, circa 1860. 81 v. Moses V. Tippie. Born, circa 1864.
32. Lucius Bearce5 Bane (McRaven, 18). Born, 1821. Died, 1879. Note: The surname is spelled in the two different ways in the data submitted by Susan and Tonie. Susan found no explanation in the records. They found no records prior to Moses Bean and the name could have been Bane in earlier generations. Their search for an explanation continues.
He married Margaret Wagner, 19 Dec 1854, in Miami Co, OH. Born, 1833, in OH. Died, 1907, in Piqua, OH. Children:
82 i. Charles W.6 Bane. Born, 1855. Died, 1909. 83 ii. Marcus Bane. Born, 1858. 84 iii. Minnie T. Bane. Born, 1859. Died, 1933. + 85 iv. Florence L. Bane. 86 v. John B. Bane. Born, 1863. Died, 1926. Burial in Piqua, OH. 87 vi. Fred W. Bane. Born, 1865. Died, 1925. Burial in Piqua, OH. 88 vii. Clifford E. Bane. Born, 1868. Died, 1938. Burial in Piqua, OH. 89 viii. Edith Bane. Born, 1870. Died, 1890. Burial in Piqua, OH. 90 ix. Ada Bane. Born, circa 1871. 91 x. William W. Bane. Born, 1872. Died, 1919. Burial in Piqua, OH. + 92 xi. Walter McRaven Bane.
37. {Dr} Garner Horace5 Bane (McRaven, 18) . Born, 1828, in OH.
He married Ellen Bierce, daughter of Zenas fierce and Lucinda Pinney. Born, 1839. Children:
+ 93 i. Garnet6 Bane.
44. Charles5 Bean (John, 20) . Born, circa 1827, in OH. He married Josephine Seahorn, daughter of Eli Seehorn and Margaret Hoggins, 31 Jan 1858, in IL. Children:
94 i. Lucas6 Bean. Born, 1859. Died, before 1870. 95 ii. Moses M. Bean. Born, circa 1862, in IL. 96 iii. Margaret Josephine Bean. Born, circa 1865, in IL. Died, 4 May 1942, in Spokane, WA.
45. Almira Charlotte5 Bean (John, 20) . Born, 27 Mar 1831, in OH.
She married John G. Seahorn, 16 Dec 1852, in Adams co, IL. Children:
97 i. Elizabeth6 Seahorn. Born, circa 1853. + 98 ii. Charles Willis Seahorn. + 99 iii. Elihu Irwin Seahorn. 100 iv. Olive Seahorn. Born, circa 1865, in Adams Co, IL. 101 v. Milton Bane Seahorn. Born, 15 Feb 1869. Died, 15 Jul 1955.
47. Olive Sylvia5 Bean (John, 20). Born, 28 Nov 1838, in IL.
She married, first, Willis Haselwood, son of James Haselwood and Elizabeth Buskirk, 14 Oct 1858, in Adams co, IL. Born, 1838, in Adams Cc, IL. Children:
102 i. Lucy E.6 Haselwood. Born, 25 Jul 1859 103 ii. Margaret Zoe Haselwood. Born, circa 1863. She married Morris Ketten. 104 iii. Sherman Alfred Haselwood. Born, 8 Dec 1868. 105 iv. Edith Haselwood. 106 v. Willis H. Haselwood.
She married, second, John E. Dempsey, 19 Feb 1862.
49. Susannah6 Gabriel (William Rowell, 21) . Born, circa 1838. She married Richard Eels, 11 Dec 1860. Born, 24 Feb 1837. Children:
107 i. Mary Matilda7 Eels. Born, 8 Sep 1861. She married William Drake. 108 ii. William Edward Eels. Born, 4 Jan 1863. Died, 28 Aug 1864. 109 iii. Edward Stanton Eels. Born, 1 May 1865, in Bowen, IL. 110 iv. Louise Eels. Born, 3 Aug 1867. She married John Barnett. 111 v. Frederick King Eels. Born, 7 Oct 1874. He married Lena Thomas.
52. Emma Jane6 Gabriel (William Rowell, 21) . Born, 26 Oct 1848, in Adams Co, IL. She married Levi Morrison Dort, 4 Sep 1866, in Adams Co, IL. Born, 27 Dec 1843. Children:
112 i. Lula E.7 Dort. Born, 23 Jan 1868. 113 ii. Guy Joseph Dort. Born, 2 Feb 1870. 114 iii. William Dort. Born, 3 Feb 1872. 115 iv. Mary D. Dort. Born, 15 Feb 1875. She married Eugene Thurston Seger. 116 v. Ernest Wells Dort. Born, 12 Feb 1877. He married Helen Rose McAlpine, 13 Jun 1913. 117 vi. Dorothy Emma Dort. Born, 12 Feb 1878. She married Urban Payson Adams. 118 vii. Levi Mitchell Dart. Born, 28 Dec 1878.
53. Effie6 Gabriel (William Rowell, 21) . Born, 6 Jun 1861. Died, 29 Mar 1941. She married William A Dunlavy. Children: 7 119 i. Alvah James Dunlavy. Born, 1881. Died, 1940. He married Doris Cole. 120 ii. Jessie Dunlavy. Born, 1883. she married H. G. Mccomb.
56. {Dr) George Warren6 Gabriel (Moses B., 23). Born, circa 1842. He married, first, Elizabeth Hagar. Children:
121 i. Mary7 Gabriel. She married Alfred H. Noyes. 122 ii. Harry Eugene Gabriel. Born, 23 Apr 1871. He married Maria Elizabeth McElvain, 11 Aug 1898. 123 iii. Hagar Gabriel. Born, circa 1875. He married, second, Mary Cassady, 1894.
62. Ernest I.6 Gabriel (Isaac Newton, 24) . Born, 1851, in Athens, OH. He married Lavinnie Hanna Mary Sloan, 5 Jan 1876, in McLean Co, IL. Children:
124 i. Anna7 Gabriel. 125 ii. Paul Gabriel. 126 iii. Elizabeth Gabriel. 127 iv. Florence Gabriel. She married Alex Smith. 128 v. Elgiva Gabriel. She married Grove Hill.
71. Emily Almira6 Bolleau. Born, 1848. Died, 1934. She married Joel Henry Shamel. Born, 1844. Died, 1927. Children:
129 i. Grace May7 Shaiuel. Born, 1871, in IA. Died, 1936. 130 ii. Mary Love Ann Shamel. Born, 1873, in IA. Died, 1936. 131 iii. Harry Daniel Shamel. Born, 1874, in NE. Died, 1978. 132 iv. Lucy Lucile Shamel. Born, 1878, in KS. Died, 1946. 133 v. Arthur Guy Shamel. Born, 1880, in KS. Died, 1947. 134 vi. Hal Harold Shamel. Born, 1885, in KS. Died, 1963. 135 vii. Weber Clyde Shamel. Born, 1887, in KS. Died, 1955. 136 viii. Viola Shamel. Born, 1892, in KS. Died, 1892.
85. Florence L.6 Bane (Lucius Bearce, 32) . born, circa 1862, in OH. She married Herbert B. Brooks. Children:
137 i. Donald B.7 Brooks. Born, circa 1900, in Piqua, OH.
92. Walter McRaven6 Bane (Lucius Bearce, 32) . Born, 15 Aug 1878, in Miami Co, OH. Died, 15 Jan 1962, in Washington, DC. He married Corilla Belle Compton, 1 Sep 1903, in Miami Co, OH. Born, 1880, in OH. Died, 1950, in Washington, DC. Children:
138 i. Vivian Dee7 Bane. Born, 1904. Died, 1973, in Lexington Park, MD. She married Thomas Brown Rhodes II, 3 Jul 1930. 139 ii. Living Bane. Born, 1906. She married Washington Barto. 140 iii. Jack Miles Bane. Born, 28 May 1918, in Washington, DC. Died, 10 Jul 1998, in Frederick, MD. He married Edith Geohegan.
SIXTH GENERATION
93. Garnet6 Bane ({Dr} Garner Horace, 37) . Born, 1869. She married John Dempsey Kane. Children: 141 i. Bothwell Bierce7 Kane. Born, 7 Sep 1893, in Joplin, MO.
98. Charles Willis6 Seahorn. Born, 22 Aug 1857. Died, 29 Jan 1938. He married Margaret Elizabeth Rankin, 18 Apr 1886. Born, 22 Nov 1861. Children:
142 i. John7 Seahorn. Born, 1888. 143 ii. Harry Seahorn. Born, 1890. Died, 1895, in Spokane, WA. 144 iii. Roy Seahorn. Born, 1895.
99. Elihu Irwin6 Seahorn. Born, 19 Aug 1860. Died, 2 Jun 1938, in Spokane, WA. He married Lenora Cowan, 10 Aug 1887. Children:
145 i. Cornelius F7. Seahorn. Born, 1888. 146 ii. Claude I. Seahorn. Born, 1892.
NECROLOGY
It was the 4th of July week-end 1967, has William Adams Littell, Sr. had invited several who were interested in family history and genealogy to join a group for a family the picnic at the General John Smith Littell farm in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. Among those joining Bill for this picnic were IL, Walter Wilson Littell of New Jersey; (Mo Frederick Moore Littell of Chicago, Robert 200 Burgess Littell, also of New Jersey; and in Noble Kieth Littell of Indiana. A year later the meeting site was moved to the Littell Horse Farm, also in Beaver County. It was decided that an official entity should be formed and Bill Littell, whose occupation was that of fund raiser for educational institutions, suggested that the four of us, Bill, Fred, Bob, and Noble, each contribute $250.00 to establish a fund for organization expenses. Noble of would prepare the documents and formally incorporate the group in the state of Indiana. And thus Littell Families of America was born. Harold Littell would become Chairman of the Board; Bill, cur president; Bob, vice president; Noble, Secretary; Walter would serve as editor of the resurrected Littell’s Living Age (of which his great-great-great uncle Eliakim he was the founder in 1843); Fred was the first treasurer. With the passing of Bob last year, and Fred in January of this year (2001) this writer is the only survivor of this founding group. Fortunately Bill, Jr. is extremely interested in perpetuating the traditions commenced some 35 years ago and LFA will live on. Compiling the necrology for this issue has been emotionally difficult for this writer, so many close and dear friends, including a daughter, have passed away since the last issue was published.
Frederick Moore Littell (#191, p. 336, LFH&G) was born 25 November 1906 in Evanston, IL, s/o Frederick John & Florence Isabel (Moore) Littell, and passed away in January 2001, age 94. He married Julie Viola Edmunds in 1937, they were parents of four children: Roberta Sue Hubbard, deceased; Florence Vasta Kelley of San Francisco; Frederick Allen and Edmund Richard Littell of Winnetka, IL. Julie died in 1987 and Roberta 1 February 1995. Fred is survived by six grandchildren. Any effort to summarize the life of Fred would fall short as Fred was bigger than life. A graduate of the University of Illinois with a degree in engineering he and his three brothers joined in the operation of the company founded by their father, the F. J. Littell Machine Company. Fred was endowed with an insatiable curiosity. On one occasion we were flying from Los Angeles to San Diego, first class, and so we were served a bottle of wine. Fred was a non drinker but on this occasion he examined the bottle which doubled as a glass when the cap was unscrewed. He was intrigued, he drank the wine and after carefully studying the combination cap- drinking glass, opened his brief case and placed the container therein to further scrutinize and examining it when back in his office. Another time we were in Providence, Rhode Island, Fred chose to ride Amtrak back to Newark, NJ before flying back to Chicago, I turned in our rental car and flew back to Indiana. Fred called that evening to report his train had derailed just out of Providence, Fred went along the track and picked up some broken rail spikes before hitching a ride to the airport and flying back to Chicago. Fred called an engineer from their Pittsburgh plant and had him meet him in Providence on Monday. Together they analyzed the broken spikes and the accident scene then wrote a report as to the cause of the accident and mailed it to Amtrak. Fred’s curiosity resulted in more than 70 patents world wide for various items. Following a Littell family reunion in Olympia, Washington he chose to stop in Spokane on his return flight, during the flight he met a mining engineer and their discussion led to Fred designing and building a devise that would remove additional gold from the residue discarded at mining sites. Re demonstrated this equipment at some trade shows, but never actually placed it in production, but he had proved a point. Unusual itineraries were not unusual for Fred. On several of his return from business trips to Europe he found it relaxing to schedule a stop over in Rykjavik where he would spend a day or two just browsing around Iceland. Our Fred Littell was one of a kind. Those who were fortunate enough to know Fred Littell, and our family association, Littell Families of America, will miss Fred Littell, his shoes will be difficult to fill.
Robert Burgess Littell, (# 747, p. 306) LFH&G), 76, another of the founding members of Littell Families of America, succumbed to emphysema after a lengthy battle with this affliction. Bob developed an interest in genealogy early in life and attended the initial meeting of the group that would eventually evolve into this family association. He was Life Member # 2. Bob served as a vice president of the association, he and Dottie hosted reunions at their White Lake Farm in Blairstown, NJ in 1980 and 1981. Bob was born 3 July 1923 in Newark, NJ, the s Harry Ellsworth & Emma (Schnell) Littell. He died 3 September 1999 and was laid to rest at Restland Memorial in East Hanover, NJ. He attended Mercer University in Macon, GA and Newark College of Engineering (Now New Jersey Institute of Technology). He enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Dix, NJ 9 July 1942 and participated in several battles and campaigns in the South Pacific, including New Guinea and Luzon between July 1943 and November 1945. He was awarded the American Theater Ribbon, Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon, Philippine Liberation Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal and the Victory Medal. Dorothy Clara Stagg became Bob’s bride at the Incarnation Episcopal Church of East Orange, NJ 11 February 1950. Dottie was a d/o Walter F. & Frieda (Sommerhalter) Stagg. They were parents of three children: Pamela Kren, Gregory Stagg Littell, and Vicki Ritchie; seven grandchildren, Katherine Veronica Kren, Kimberly Elizabeth Kren, Brandon Reyes Littell, Ryan Reyes Littell, Robert James Ritchie, Rachel Victoria Ritchie, and Haley Ann Ritchie. After WW II Bob worked in California briefly before moving to Cedar Grove, NJ in 1951, he moved to Blairstown, NJ in 1977. Bob was a pilot in the 1950s and 60s, and owned his own contracting company in the 1970s doing business as Littell Construction Company, doing business both domestically and international. He built a bridge and highway under contract with the Nigerian state of Kaduna in 1975 and 1976. Bob was a member of the Masonic lodge and wore a Masonic ring. lie attributed this membership with sparing his life while in Nigeria. A native Nigerian serving as superintendent for Bob was also a Mason and Masonically warned him not to get into the jeep with an army Colonel serving at the construction site for their usual inspection tour. The next morning there was an attempted coup, the president, General Murtalla Mohammed, was wounded, but survived, several military personnel, including the Colonel at Kaduna, were killed. Bob’s interest in genealogy led to his membership in many other organizations including: Sons of the American Revolution, Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Sons of the Revolution, Colonial Clergy, Flagon & Trencher, Baronial Order of the Magna Carta, The Order of the Crown of Charlemange, Colonial Wars, Military Order of the Crusades, The Huguenot Society of New Jersey, Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Society of the Sons of Saint George of Philadelphia, Bucks County Historical Society, as well as Littell Families of America. Bob was also a Tennessee Squire.
Chere Kieth Littell Toney (#1326, p.654, LFH&G). 54. d/o Noble Kieth Littell of Sebring, FL and Dorothy Ann (Hyatt) Buchanan of Martinsville, IN died 13 July 2000 at the Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis. Chere Kieth Littell Toney (1945—2000)
She had suffered from crippling rheumatoid arthritis for several years but continued her daily routine until about three years ago. The strong medication she was taking, and the pain pills she was forced to use damaged her liver beyond repair. Chere graduated from Mooresville (IN) High School in 1963 and attended cosmetology school but soon decided not to pursue her mother’s trade and graduated from Indiana University in 1968 with a degree in education. She worked as a bookkeeper and office manager for several years before she was forced to retire in 1997. She married Larry Alan Toney of Brownsburg, IN in 1967. They were parents of five children. Chere’s survivors include the five children: Traci Rae Abercrombie of Indianapolis; Tana McCune of Martinsville, IN; Trina Blunk of Avon, IN; Trent Toney of Owosso, MI; and Tiffany Toney of Indianapolis; one sister, Jacki Shields of Martinsville; two brothers, Douglas Littell of Winter Park, FL and Michael Littell of Kennesaw, GA; one stepsister, Beverly Ann Branam of Sebring, FL; and one stepbrother, Robert Branam of St. Petersburg, FL. Chere was grandmother of nine at the time of her death: Amanda Danielle Carlton and Noble Scott “Do” Greene, children of Traci Rae; Nicholas Alan McCune, son of Tana Marie; Griffin Lee, Garrett Dale, and Kyle Christopher Blunk, children of Trina Suzanne; Kaleb Michael Toney, son of Trent Nicholas; and Alyssa Danielle and Ashlyn Rene Pickens, children of Tiffany Justina. A tenth grandchild, Paul Michael “Mikey” Abercrombie, Jr., was born 1 August 2000.
Sharlene “Sherry” Tafini (wife of #1325, p. 886, LFH&G), age 50, died 19 February 2000 at her residence in Ypsilanti, MI after an extended illness. She was born 13 July 1949 in Kingsville, Ontario, d/o Kenneth R. & Darlene w. (Shaw) Hickmott. Sherry graduated from John Glenn High School in 1967 and from the Nursing Program at Wastenaw Community College in 1989. On 5 May 1978 she married Gary R. Tafini in Ypsilani. Gary, a descendant in the “Squire William” line, is an active member of Littell Families of America. Sherry retired from the Beyer Hospital as a Registered Nurse in 1997. She will always be remembered for her love of her children and grandchildren. Survivors in addition to her husband and her father include three children: Ran Lee Biggs, IV; Jennifer Lynn (Mrs. James) Johnson; Jay Roger Tafinia (fiancee Michelle Shankwiler); two grandchildren, Joshua Ray and Jacob Andrew Johnson, all of Ypsilanti; three sisters, Patricia Haickmott, Carol (Shane) Rose, both of Ypsilanti; Pamela (Rob) Dewhurst of Pensacola, FL; Gregory Hickmott of Aloha, OR; and many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her mother in 1976. Sherry suffered many long term effects of diabetes. She was in the hospital for nearly 2 months suffering from serious respiratory problems. She spent another 3 weeks recuperating in an extended care facility. She passed away in her sleep on the morning of 19 February, burial was in Highland Cemetery, Washtenaw County, Michigan.
Alta Marie Beshears Nearmyer ( 1097, p. 444, LFH&G) died 9 May 1999 in Seal Beach, CA. She was born 6 December 1907 in Center, MO, a d/o Homer E. & Louanna Mae (Paxton) Beshears. She married Kenneth Edwin Nearmyer in 1933 in MIlton, FL, they were parents of Kenneth Edwin Nearmyer, Jr. Survivors include Tracey Joe Snow, Easton Steele Snow, Madison Newel Snow, and great granddaughter Chelsea Marie Evans. (Information sent by her granddaughter Kimberly Snow Evans of Huntington Beach, CA.)
Esther Fair Littell (wife of // 577, p. 565, LFH&G), age 98, died 23 May 1999 in Kansas, she was born 1 September 1900 in Sistersville, WV. She married Harley Littell in 1919 in Burns, Kansas, he died 30 August 1977. She is survived by two children, Ester Brunton of Cambridge, KS and Gene Littell of Burden, KS. She was preceded in death by daughters June Cummins and Luetta Thomas and sons James Littell and Harley Littell, Jr. (Information from her son Kenneth Eugene “Gene” Littell)
Don James Lytle (# 53, P. 1125, LFH&G) of Salem, Oregon died Friday 10 September 1999 when a farm tractor he was driving tipped over. Born in St. Helens, he lived in Albany before moving to Salem in 1948. He attended Willamette University and the University of Oregon where he graduated. Don Lytle was an accountant with several state agencies before his retirement in 1991. He owned Bunker Hill Christmas Tree Farm. He was a member of the U.S. Air Force, Pacific Masonic Lodge No. 50, Scottish Rite, Al Kadar Shrine, and was current president of the Salem Shrine Club. Survivors include his wife, Harriet, whom he married in 1955; sons Mark of Seattle and Kent of Alameda, CA; daughter Karen Bledsoe of Salem; sisters, Beverly Kelley of Kennewick, WA and June of Portland, OR; two grandchildren and one step grandchild. (Obituary from the Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon, 12 September 1999, submitted by Harriet (Hiday) Lytle)
David R. Littell (c1907-1998. The following obituary from a Mesa, Arizona newspaper was submitted by the late Elmer Milhon. We have not been able to positively identify David in LFH&G. A clue is that a daughter married a Grau, an unusual surname to say the least, and we have a John Christopher who married a Florence Grau, page 819. This family, in the Squire William line, lived in Iowa at one time, the deceased was born in Iowa. Nkl) David R. Littell, 91, of Mesa, a salesman in the insurance industry, died 9 September 1998. He was born in Sumner, Iowa. Survivors include his daughter, Ann Grau; son, Roger Littell; sister, Ethelyn Lehmkuhl; eight grandchildren; and eighteen great grandchildren. Contributions: Shriner’s Crippled Childrens Hospital.
Kenneth Edward “Jimmy” Hall (# 1603, p. 477, LFH&G), 72, passed away 9 October 2000. He was born 20 November 1927 in Fairmont, WV. He was a WW II Army Veteran. A member of the American Legion Bexley Post #340 in Columbus, Ohio and Loyal Order of Noose, Fairmont, West Virginia Lodge #9. He is survived by his wife Ruth of 27 years; 2 daughters, Murial Audrea Chesser, Gahanna, OH and Linda Harper, Columbus, OH; 1 son, Jimmy Alan Hall, Gahanna, OH; 1 stepdaughter, Diana Coulter, Blacklick, OH; 6 grand children, Matthew, Nathaniel and Samuel Hall of Gahanna, OH; Denise and Joel Chesser, Gahanna, and Michelle Pruitt, also of Gahanna; 1 sister, Beverly Welch; 1 niece, Sara McLaughlin, both of Fairmont, WV; 2 nephews, Jimmy Welch, Fairmont, WV and Sardie Brant Welch of Acworth, GA. At Mr. Hall’s request there was no formal service or visitation. (Kenneth was interested in genealogy and contributed to the data in LFH&G)
John William Jackson, Sr. (# 1013, p. 436, LFH&G), 74, of Beardston, Illinois, died Tuesday evening 11 Nay 1999, at his residence. He was born 7 June 1924, in Bates City, MO, s John T. & Effie May (Anthony) Jackson. He married Dorothy Osborn 24 October 1947 at the First Evangelical Lutheran Church parsonage in Beardstown, and she survives. He is also survived by one son, John W. Jr. (wife, Jenny) of Liberty; three daughters, Mrs. Jim (Rosa Lee) Miller and Anita Kay, both of Beardstown, and Janis Lynn of Springfield, IL; six grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and tour sisters, Pearl Savage and Wanda Savage (note: they married brothers), both of Beardstown, Geraldine Osborn of Napoleon, MO and Edna Belle Moss of SpringfIeld, IL. He was preceded in death of by one brother and one sister. Mr. Jackson graduated from Oak Grove (Missouri) in 1943. He entered the U.S. Army on 12 Feb. 1943, and served in World War II in the Philippines and the occupation of Japan. He received a Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one Bronze Star and a Good Conduct medal and was honorably discharged 13 Feb. 1946. He was a life member of the Guthrie—Pierce VFW Post No. 1239 in Beardstown. He was employed by Burlington Northern Railroad as a Bridge Gang Foreman from 1952 until his retirement in 1988 and he also farmed in the Cass County area. (Obituary forwarded by Pearl Savage)
Raymond Paul Littell (# 604, p. 1196, LFH&G), died 16 October 1998 at Kiowa District Hospital, Kiowa, KS, age 81 years, 29 days. He was born 18 September 1918 in Woods County, OK. His father was Jasper Ray Littell and his mother was Eva Gillig Littell. He married Janie Trent 13 February 1942 in Big Cabin, OK. A farmer, he came to Kiowa in 1994 moving from Capron, OK where he had lived since 1948. He was a member of the United Methodist Church, Kiowa, KS, and the America Legion. He was veteran of World War II, serving as a staff sergeant in the Army Air Corps. Survivors include: wife, Janie, Kiowa, KS; son, Bob, Norman, OK; daughter, Marcia Garner, Oklahoma City, OK; sister, Catherine Hejl, Dallas, TX; 6 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. (Obituary submitted by Catherine J. Hejl)
Elmer Ralph Milhon (# 805, p. 586, LFH&G), age 90, died Sunday 14 March 1999 in Mesa, Arizona. Mr. Milhon, a former disability examiner with the Social Security Administration, was born 9 January 1909 at Little Point in Morgan County, Indiana, s/a Truman William & Lura Olaf (Littell) Milhon. A graduate of Indiana State University, he had lived in Mesa since 1947. He had a graduate degree from Arizona State University. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge in Mesa; of El Zaribah Shrine and Scottish Rite in Phoenix; as well as the Elks Lodge and the Scottsdale Barber Shop Chorus. Elmer married Loudean Lunt of Duncan, AZ 24 December 1938, she survives. Other survivors include two sons, Melvin Bruce and Norman Ralph Milhon; 3 grandchildren, Jennifer Ann Milhon Duff, John Christopher and Daniel Bruce Milhon; and 4 great grand children, Chelsie Marie, Christen Louise, Cayla Marie, and Kyle Bruce Milhon. A sister, Christine Shumaker of Osceola, Indiana died in 1981. (This obituary contributed by Elmer’s widow. Due to my close relationship and deep friendship with Elmer and Lou I am exercising editor privilege and here follows an article previously written about Elmer for another publication)
MORE ABOUT ELMER
Elmer was born in the little frame house of Boone and Olaf located on what is now the entrance ramp to 1-70 at Little Point. He graduated from high school at Eminence in 1926 and from Indiana State University in 1932, he earned a master’s degree at Arizona State University in 1950 and completed 42 semester hours toward a doctorate degree. Elmer’s employment included 12 years teaching in Indiana and Arizona; 5 years as Educational Adviser for the Civilian Conservation Corps in New Mexico; 2 years teaching radio and communications at Scott Field, Illinois during WW II; 2 years as Training Facilities Officer and Training Specialist for the veterans administration in Indianapolis; 20 years as Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor with the Social Security Disability Section in Phoenix, Arizona. Elmer belonged to El Zaribah Shrine and Scottish Rite in Phoenix, Elks Lodge, and the Scottsdale Barbershop Chorus. Lou belonged to the Ladies Oriental Shrine and the Ladies Elk Club. Elmer and Lou moved to Mesa in 1947 and began investing in rental property which they managed and maintained. They lived in Arizona, New Mexico, Indiana, and Illinois during their married life. In retirement they became world travelers, their sojourns included: 1952 — Gaymas, Mexico; 1965 —Mexico City and Acapulco; 1966 — Hawaii; 1969- Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Bahamas; 1974 — England, Holland, German, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, France; 1975 — Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Singapore, Bali, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Tahiti; 1977, South America — Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Chili, Argentina, Brazil, Columbia; (And they stopped by the Littell Family reunion in Florida); 1978 — Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Jerusalem, Turkey, Greece; 1980, India - Bombay, Madras, Japur, Colomo, Nepal, Veranasi, Khalapur, Agra, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, Delphi; 1981 - Alaska, Vancouver, Victoria (And a stop at the Littell Family reunion in Olympia, Washington); 1982 — Portugal, Spain, Morocco; 1983 — Korea, Hong Kong, China, Cacao; 1984 — England, Scotland, Ireland; 1985, Africa — Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Nairobi, Oldevia Gorge, Ngarongoa Crater, Lake Manyera, Arusha, and Frankfurt, Germany; and in the same year a Danube and Rhine cruise — Austria, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden; 1986 — London on Q.E. 2, return on Concorde; 1987, Rhine River Cruise - Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland; 1988, Seven Seas Cruise - Italy, Sicily, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Odessa and Yalta in Russia; 1989 — American Heritage Tour; 1992 — Mexican Riviera Cruise; 1993, Panama Canal Cruise — Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Venezuela, Martinique, Barbados, Granada, Curacao, Acapulco; 1994 — Costa Rica; 1995, Russian River Cruise — Finland, St Petersburg, Moscow. Through the years we visited frequently with Elmer and Lou. One Sunday in 1941 we were visiting them in Indianapolis, they had a multiple use dining table, it converted into a regulation size pool table. We were shooting a game when we were joined by Mom, Dad, and Shelby Hood, Jr. Dad picked up a cue stick and then mentioned that the Japs had just attacked Pearl Harbor. We knew that Dorothy dad was at Pearl, aboard the hospital ship “Solace” and that her brother was enroute to Pearl aboard the “Neches”. Suddenly the pool game became irrelevant. In later year we spent many a pleasant hour in their basement in Mesa. Arizona.
Elsie Suzzanah Tichenal Hendricks (#228, p.1001 LFH&G), 93, died 10 October 1999. She was born 23 January 1905 and married Stewart Madison Hendricks 18 April 1925 in Madison Co., IL, he died in 1978. They were parents of two sons; Denny Lee and Gary Don Hendricks and two daughters; Shirley Ann Beffa and Bonnie Sue Coles. Susan was a member of Littell Families of America (member #590) as are her daughter, Bonnie and her granddaughter, Terry Coles.
AN OBITUARY FROM THE PAST WALTER RICKS LITTELL FOUNDER COOPERSTOWN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME
(From an unidentified newspaper found by LFA Member Wallace W. Littell among the papers of his father, Dr. Clair F. Littell. No date of death is given, but it was prior to 1966, the date of Clair’s death, and probably about 1955 as he was born in 1880 and the newspaper gave his age as 75) The death of Walter R. Littell (# 25, p. 898, LFH&G), president and editor of the Otsego Farmer and dean of Otsego County Newspaper men, occurred shortly after 1 o’clock Monday afternoon at the Holford Nursing Home, his age was 75. A widely-known and highly respected figure in the weekly newspaper field for a half century. Mr. Littell was born at Oquaga Lake, Broome County, on October 23, 1880, a son of the Rev. J. H. Littell and Ellen (Ricks) Littell. He attended Cazenovia Seminary from which he was graduated in 1899. His family moved to Cooperstown in 1902 when his father became pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church which he served until 1905. Mr. Littell attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. At the end of his junior year he took a teaching position in the Stanley District of the town of Middlefield which he held for one year, and then joined the staff of the Freeman’s Journal before returning to Wesleyan to complete his college education. He received his degree in 1905 after which he returned to Cooperstown and joined the staff of the Otsego Farmer to commence a 50—year association with that paper. For many years he served as its editor, and since 1939, had been president of the newspaper as well. In 1911, he was on the editorial staff of “Printer’s Ink,” a national newspaper trade magazine in New York, before returning to Cooperstown. A life-long Methodist, Mr. Littell was a Trustee and member of the official Board of the Methodist Church at the time of his death. He had served the church as Superintendent of its Sunday School for nearly 25 years. Mr. Littell was long identified with community projects in Cooperstown. He was one of the organizers of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum back in the mid-30s, and since its founding had served as a member of its Board of Directors as well as Secretary of the Board. In addition to his affiliation with the Hall of Fame, he also was a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York State Historical Association, the Farmers Museum, and the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital. He was a vice— president and member of the Board of Governors of the Cooperstown Country Club and also assistant secretary of the Scriven Foundation. For many years, until his retirement in 1954, he was a member of the Board of Visitors of Oneonta State Teachers College, and for the past year had been an emeritus member of the College Council. At his death, he also was secretary of the Otsego County Historical Society. He was for many years a member of the Cooperstown Rotary Club, and in 1941 served as its president. At his death, he was an honorary member of the club. He was a member of Otsego Lodge, No. 138, Free and Accepted Masons for over 50 years. Mr. Littell was editor of the highly valuable “History of Cooperstown” commonly referred to as Littell’s History. It was originally published in 1929, and revised in 1935. Mr. Littell combined James Fenimore Cooper’s “Chronicles of Cooperstown,” which told the history of the village from its founding until 1939. Samuel M. Shaw, for more than 50 years editor of the Freeman’s Journal, brought it up through 1886, and Mr. Littell continued the chronological history of the village from that date until the date of the latest edition. Mr. Littell married the former Miss Sara E. Lippitt of this village on August 31, 1912 in the First Baptist Church. She survives together with a son, W. Ricks Littell, of Elsmere; a daughter, Mrs. William J. Barwick of Brightwaters, L.I.; a sister, Mrs. LeRoy L. Parshall of this village; and six grand children, Mark and Christopher Littell of Elsmere, and Kent, Susan, Sally and Elizabeth Barwick, all of Brightwaters; and a niece, Miss Carol Ann Parshall of Cooperstown.
(The following is taken from an article appearing in the Los Angeles Times on May 17, 2000 and forwarded to [ by Wm Adams Littell, Jr. We have not been able to place Ross Littell in any Littell line. He was 75 when he died so he would have been born about 1925 and had at least one sister)
Ross Littell, a textile and furniture designer who helped create a three-legged chair that became an American modern classic, died April 17 in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 75. The cause of death was a brain tumor, said his sister, Janice Currey of Malibu, Calif. Littell was a partner of William Katavolos and Douglas Kelley in the 1950s when the three men created a piece of furniture called the I chair, an elegant three-legged construction of chrome and leather that resides in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and other top-ranked museums. Littell was “one of the key designers during what was a golden moment for American design,” said Terrence Riley, chief curator for architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art. Littell was born and raised in Los Angeles. He studied at the Art Center School in Los Angeles (now Art Center College of Dessign in Pasadena) but his training was interrupted by World War II and service in the Coast Guard. After the war, he entered Pratt Institute in New York, where he met Katavolos and Kelley. The three men formed a design studio in 1949 and produced a line of furniture for a New York company called Laverne Originals, of which the three- legged chair became their best- known piece. After their partnership dissolved, Littell opened his own studio in 1956. The following year he became a Fu scholar in Italy,, where he studied the microscopic structure of natural forms. “When he went on his Fulbright, he took 2,200 photographs, all of pattern, things like how they do cobblestones in Paris. He was a very deep student of design,” said his friend and fellow designer, David Rowland.
Florence Littell Gray, 71, of Hanover Township, died Wednesday, Sept 22, 1999, in Sewickley Valley Hospital following a brief illness. Born Dec 14, 1927 in Hanover Township, a daughter of the late Cyrus and Margaret Littell, her family was among the first pioneer settlers of the area. She was a member of the Service United Presbyterian Church and the South Side Area Senior Citizens Association. She was preceded in death by her husband, Jerry Gray, in 1991; a brother, Miles Littell, and two sisters, Lida Weber and Ella Jean Sloppy. Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Garry and Adele Gray, Aliquippa; a grandson, Gerald Gray, and a brother, Norman Littell, Hanover Township.
Granville Hamilton. Joyce Littell Hamilton (#66, p. 960, LFH&G) of Sun Lakes, Arizona advised us of the passing of her husband on 17 July 2000. “Ham” was born 11 April 1911 in Clark, MO, 5/0 David Leroy and Goldie (Hulen) Hamilton. A retired realtor he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. In more recent times he was an avid golfer, a sport in which Joyce always takes an active interest. They were married in Denver, Colorado in June 1940. Their two Sons, Granville Kent and Brian Littell Hamilton survive. Burial was in Valley of the Sun Cemetery in Chandler, Arizona.
Ilah E. Finchum, 86, of Apple Way, Columbus, Indiana, ( 865, p. 595, LFH&G) died at 6 p.m. 28 January 2001 in Columbus Regional Hospital. She had been a resident of Columbus for 48 years, a former resident of Martinsville. Born 11 May 1914 in Morgan County, she was the d/o Omer T. and Ella (Holmes) Goss. She married Eugene F. Finchum 25 April 1934, he died 17 January 2000. They were parents of two children, Sandra Larison and Myron Eugene Finchum, two grandchildren, Laura Lynn Larison and Jack Eugene Finchum. Myron died in 1991. Mrs. Finchum was a retired employee of Brunings Women’s Store. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Columbus, a Columbus Hospital Auxiliary volunteer, a Sunday school teacher, worked with the Girl Scouts and in her younger years was a youth group leader. (From The Reporter-Times, Martinsville, IN, 30 January 2001)
BIRTHS
JAKOB WILLIAM LITTELL-ENG was born 23 August 1998 to Deidre Kathleen Littell (# 404, p. 234, LFH&G) & David William Eng. Jakob was born at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, Fairbanks, Alaska. He joins brother James Edward Littell and is the third grandson of Robert J. Littell. A couple of notes from Tonie Sorensen (Antoinette Waughtel Soresen # 2422, p.710) - .Ethan Thomas Todd finally decided to make his appearance known to our world on Sunday afternoon November 19, 2000 at 5:29 p.m. at 29 Palms Marine Corp Base Hospital, CA. He took his time as he was due November 8th. Some of you know that I went down on November 5th to be with my grandaughter Malinda (husband Christopher) to help with their little Tori (Victoria Antoinette) who turned 16 months on November 7th. In October 1999 Tonie wrote, “As to the great grandchildren I had #4 in July — Victoria Antoinette - “Tori” for short. Her mother is Malinda Antoinette and she is the daughter of my Sabrina Antoinette Dorothy Jimenez (#2717, p. 710, LFH&G)
Jaynee Lyn Scot Littell was born 9 October 1999 in the Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, d/o of Chad Douglas Noble & Amber Danielle (Brown) Littell. (Chad is #2011, p. 646, LFH&G) They were not stingy in the bestowing of names but note the spelling - 2 EEs, 1 N, and 1 T. Jaynee’s maternal grandfather is Randal Scot Brown.
Paul Michael Abercrombie, Jr. “Mikey” was born in the Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, on 1 August 2000 s Traci Rae Toney (#2005, p. 645, LFH&G) and sibling of Amanda Danielle Carlton and Noble Scott “Bo” Greene.
Ashlyn Rene Pickens was born 11 February 2000 in Indianapolis, IN, d/o Tiffany Justina Toney (#2009, p. 645, LFH&G) and Christopher Allen Pickens. She has one sister, Alyssa Danielle Pickens.
Kyle Christopher Blunk was born 14 April 2000 in Indianapolis, IN, s/o Trina Suzanne Toney (#2007, p. 645, LFH&G) and Christopher Lee Blunk. Kyle joins twin brothers - Griffin Lee and Garrett Dale Blunk.
(pardon the duplicate data, equipment malfunction)
Antonette Waughtel Soresen of Tacoma, Washington e-mailed the following: “. . .as to the great grandchildren I had # 4 in July - Victoria Antoinette, “Tori” Todd born 7 July 1999 in the Naval Hospital, Bremerton, Washington. Her mother is Malinda Antoinette (#2799, p. 719, LFH&G) and she is the daughter of my Sabrina Antoinette (#2717). Tori’s father is Christopher Todd, a Marine stationed at Twentynine Palms, CA, the paternal grandparents are Delbert & Gloria (Gould) Todd of Orleans, IN Tonie invites you to contact her at http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/savannah /252/sabrina.htm
George Shaum Littell, Jr. (#717, p. 303, LFH&G) wrote a 2 point letter under date of January 5, 2001. 1. Isabell Fayrene Littell was born on December 26, 2000 to my daughter, Betinna Tobin “Tina” Littell. 2. I plan to marry Helen Hoke Forteith in Houston on February 3, 2001. We will be living at 201€ Main, Apt 2404, Houston Texas 77002—8845. We look forward to additional details in the future.
A letter from Max Littell (#902, p. 600, LFH&G) of Roswell, NM mentions a new great granddaughter, Makenn Marie Littell of Phoenix, but gives no further data. Max is proud of his progeny but is equally proud of the results of his avocation of the past several years as one of the founders of the UFO museum. He wrote, “Our International I Museum and Research Center continues to grow, and will pass 200,000 visitors for the year. . . Sometime about the middle of 2001 we will pass 1,000,000 visitors since opening 8 years ago. Our visitors come from all over the world as we are recognized as being ‘The UFO Capitol of the World.’ Of course I am still on the Board of Directors with 2 other founders, we will be for life, and then we hope our 4 daughters will be active and continue what we started." Max says that after a 14 hour flight to Australia in inadequate seating space his appetite for flying has been greatly diminished.
Kyle Bruce Milhon was born 22 November 1997, s Daniel Bruce (// 2017, p. 646, LFH&G) and Tamara Louise (Spear) Milhon. He joins a family consisting of the parents and one sister, Cayla Marie Milhon, age 3. Sarah Ruth Littell was born 15 June 1997 (father’s day), d/o Douglas Roger Littell (#731, p. 291, LFH&G) and his wife, Hanna. Sarah joins a family of two brothers and two step sisters, they live in Miami. Douglas writes that he has now adopted a Hebrew name, Shemu ‘El Littell.
Logan Littell McHose was born 7 March 1998, s Alison Elizabeth Littell (# 1419, p. 448, LFH&G) and her husband, Morgan McHose. [See Editor Notes section of this issue for photo of this family].
Pearl L. Savage of Beardstown, IL sent the following marriage which has not been previously reported. John Ryan Tillman Savage (# 1560, p.462, LFH&G) and Penny Lynn Logston were married in the Fourth Street Lutheran Church 21 March 1998.
KEEP IN TOUCH
During the past several months mail addressed to the following members has been returned: Judy Littell Amidon, 4435 N 78th St., Apt. 139-A, Scottsdale, AZ 85251-2521 Corey Stout, 9401 Arvada NE, St. Albuquerque, NM 87112-2814. Helen Littell Derbyshire, 9 Village Rd, Weston, MA 02193 Marylee West Forsthoff, 1221 W Clarendon Pd, Arlington Heights, IL 60004 Valerie Jean Hausknect, 150 Whittier Pd, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 John Marcus Littell, 6801 7th Ave. West, Bradenton, FL 34209 George H. Littell, 305 Bowling Dr., Naples, FL 33940 Joseph & Carlotta Littell, 3710 Lakeridge Pd, Fallbrook, CA 92028-9106 Christopher James Littell, 610 W Taylor, Lovington, NM 88260 Teresa Coles, 2069 Zumbell Pd, # 116, St. Charles, MO 63303-2723 Stephen Mark Littell, 721 Stauford, Corsicana, TX 75110 Timothy Luke Littell, 8662 Ferguson Circle, Huntington Beach, CA 92646 Terry George Thompson, 601 E Main St., New Albany, IN 47150 Margie Littell Ulrich, Pt 3, Box 413, Dayton, TN 37321 Jean Littell Winslow, 102 Hermitage Pd, Wilmington, DE 19803 John Marcus Littell, 6801 7th Ave., West, Bradenton, FL 34209 Dr. Jay Francoeur Littell, 121 Braddock Park, Boston, MA 02116 Dr. Lawrence M. Littell, 3834 Flossmore Pd, Flossmore, IL 60422 Charles Douglas Littell, P 0 Box 2557, Chinle, AZ 86503 Jack Edward Pettyjohn 13821 Bauer Drive, Rockville, MD 20853 Gretchen W. Bickerstaff, 730 Summitt St., Coraopolis, PA 15108 Alma Bordelone Littell 2140 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park, CA 94025
ACHIEVEMENTS &/or UPDATES
James Alan Littell (#1688, p. 618, LFH&G), s Gene & Ruth (Dyer) Littell had an extremely successful tenure as coach of the girl’s basketball team at Seward County Community College in Liberal, KS. His team finished 5th in the National Tournament and he was named Region 6 Coach of the Year. The team record this year was 34 wins and 4 losses. Jim overall record for the last 7 years is 206 wins against 30 losses. (Information contributed by his father)
Aaron Matthew Littell (#2051, p. 651, LFH&G) s Matthew & Peggy Jean (Davis) L graduated this year from Surry Central High School in Dobson, NC and was valedictorian of his class. He received several scholarships and is currently attending Milligan College at Milligan College, Tennessee. (Information from his grandparents, Charles & Florence Littell)
Gregory Stagg Littell (#892, p. 312, LFH&G) in an update letter expressed his pleasure in living in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and listed some of the achievements of his children. Brandon Reyes Littell, 11, is a Boy Scout and on his way to earning merit badges, his activities including playing soccer and the saxophone. Ryan Reyes Littell, 9, is a Cub Scout and his Mom is his Den Leader. He is involved in soccer and baseball. Both sons are doing excellent work in their classroom.
Carolyn Elizabeth “Lisa” Littell (#910, p. 308, LFH&G) d/o Lester F. Littell, III, MD, graduated 14 May 1999 from the University of Tennessee. Lisa is continuing her education in Law School at Birmingham, AL Lester F. Littell, IV, Lisa’s brother, is currently working for a computer consulting firm in Knoxville, Tennessee designing web pages.
Andrew Page, s/o Dana (Littell) Page (#810, p. 299, LFH&G), and grandson of Lester F. Littell, Jr. won the National Geography Bee for the State of Alabama. He is a 6th grader and competed with 7th, 8th, and 9th graders. (Contributed by Margie Littell Ulrich of Dayton, TN)
Rev. Charles Myron Littell of Dobson, NC, missionary in retirement, (# 815, p. 588, LFH&G) was chosen 1998 outstanding Alumnus of Minnesota Bible College.
The Blue Ribbon doesn’t reproduce well in black and white, (shown here greatly reduced), nor does the colorful First Place Certificate shown on Library in Moultrie, Georgia.
The judges had some nice comments and expressed particular appreciation the fact that a complete index was included.
I call your attention to the absence of an index in this issue. There are several reasons for this. First, my computer with the Sky Index program malfunctioned, and as I am already a year late in getting this issue out I decided to publish without one and suggest the editor of the 2001 magazine include an all inclusive index for volume 7.
This brings me to the point of suggesting that as many members as possible should attend the August 18 reunion at the Littell Horse Farm, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. Our family association has a lot of reorganizing to do. We must have a new EDITOR for Littell’s Living Age, (I haven’t talked to Alison to see if she would have the time to devote now.). We need a CORRESPONDING SECRETARY for Littell Families of America, preferably someone living in the Pennsylvania area as the majority of our records are now housed in the Library at the farm. We need to fill out our Board of Directors.
So, get in touch with Bill and Gloria, let them know that you plan to attend, and show up at the Farm about noon on the 18th. I plan to be there.
The 2000 Family Tree Newsletter Contest Awards First Place Special Category: Genealogical/Historical Societies Small Magazine Format Littell Families of America Littell Families of America Noble K. Littell, Editor on this 1st day of June 2000 The Family Tree and The Ellen Payne Odom Genealogical Library are proud to honor the members and editor9s) of this fine publication. To produce something of this quality requires cooperation, dedication, hard work and a commitment to excellence. Hugh B. Ward Melody S. Jenkins The Rev. Dr. Hugh Buchanan Ward, Odom Library Board Chairman Melody Stinson Jenkins, Odom Library Director Beth Gay Beth Gay, DCTJ, FSA Scot, Editor, etc., The Family Tree
Littell Families of America Treasurer's Report Year Ending December 1999 Operating Funds Operating Receipts for 1999 Membership Dues $ 372 LFA Genealogy Books $ 340 Interest/Dividends Earned $ 1,660
Total Receipts $2,372
Print/Mail LLA 1999 $ 1,287 Mobile Library Repair $ 2,800
Total Expenditures $ 4,087
Total Balance Operating Funds 12/31/99 ($ 1,715)
Capital Funds Balance Year Ended 1998 $35,229 Capital Fund Receipt for 1999 Contributions $ 35 Total Receipts $ 35
Total Balance Capital Funds 12/31/99 $35,264
Total Capital and Operating Funds 12/31/99 $33,549
Submitted 2/3/2000 William Adams Littell, Jr. Treasurer
CONTENTS
Editor's Notes
Reunions
New Members
Book Reviews
James Allen Littell
Ellie Moser
Bits from the Internet
William Cornell Littell
Queries
John S. Littell
A Bean/Littell Connection
Vital Statistics/Necrology
Births
Keep in Touch
Achievements
A Blue Ribbon
A Contest
Treasurer's Report