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Birth:          28 Sep 1837 Richland, Kalamazoo Co., Mich.
Death:          15 Nov 1928 
Burial:         Prairie Home Cemetery, Richland, Kalamazoo Co., Mich.

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1880 in Richland, Kalamazoo Co., Mich. farmer
1900 in Richland, Kalamazoo Co., Mich. widower retired farmer
Mich Deaths and Burials on ancestry (for son Charles)
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William Henry Little, the second son of Henry Little, was born in Kalamazoo county on, 
September 28, 1837. He grew to manhood in this county, and has given the whole of 
his life so far to the vocation of farming. He was educated in the common schools and 
at Prairie Seminary in Richland. His parents were pioneers in the county, and he was 
called on for a full share of the arduous labor of clearing the paternal homestead and 
bringing it to productiveness; its state of high development and improvement, the farm 
gives no suggestion of the wilderness it was when the family located on it. Recently 
Mr. Little sold the place and now resides in the village of Richland. On January 1, 
1867, he united in marriage with Miss Charlotte Brown, a native of this county, and the 
daughter of Charles B. and Marietta (Mills) Brown, and granddaughter of Deacon 
Samuel Brown, who was an early pioneer of Richland Township, where he settled in 
1831 and died in 1861. Mrs. Little has two brothers and two sisters living, Samuel and 
Chester, Lucy, the wife of George Knappen, and Lizzie, the wife of Eugene Knappen. 
Their mother died in January, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Little had four children, Charles H., 
George E., Lucy E. and William F. The mother died February I6, I898, and Mr. Little 
was again married October 31, 1900, his second wife being Miss Bell Jackson, a 
native of this township. Her parents, Steelman and Lucinda (Knappen) Jackson, were 
pioneers of this county, coming from Vermont in 1833. The father belongs to the 
Presbyterian Church, in which body he has been ruling elder for a number of years, 
and the mother was an active member of the Missionary and Ladies' Aid Society. Mr. 
Little is a Republican in politics, and for a number of years he served as township 
commissioner. Like his brother Frank, he is a gentleman of extensive intelligence, wide 
reading and true culture, with excellent business capacity and good judgment, 
combined with a breadth of view and a lofty spirit of patriotism. No citizen of his 
township is better known and is more generally esteemed. From Compendium of history 
and biography of Kalamazoo County, Mich. Pg 147 


Marriage To BROWN Charlotte G. (18 Mar 1841 - 16 Feb 1898)
    m. 1 Jan 1867 

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Parents
BROWN Charles Burt (5 May 1819 - 3 Apr 1909)
MILLS Marietta (24 Dec 1819 - 16 Jan 1873)

Children by BROWN Charlotte G. 18 Mar 1841 - 16 Feb 1898
LITTLE Charles Henry (15 Nov 1867 - 18 Jul 1942)
LITTLE George Edward (5 Nov 1870 - 6 May 1940)
LITTLE Lucy E. (1 Aug 1872 - 1958)
LITTLE William Fuller (28 Aug 1878 - 8 Jun 1954)

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