Crigler and Mary Catherine Roby. John's daughter Lattie Cedonia Little Coonfield is my great grandmother. Lattie married Benjamin Coonfield and they had my grandma Luella Coonfield Cochran. Dad talked of her having dark brown eyes and long black hair that she could sit on.
It is told that John's wife died in Kentucky and he moved on to Arkansas, and is buried somewhere on a mountain top in Marble, Arkansas. He told his children they were native americans and needed to move, and be white if they wanted good jobs and land. His daughter Lattie said she was halfblood Cherokee.
Doctor Hiram Lucius Little was born in Kentucky, son of Jonas Little and Betsy
Douglass on Feb 8, 1821. He was the grandson of Rev War Patriot Captain George
Little and Mary of Scotland. Hiram married Nancy Catherine Wright in 1840
* Other son of Jonas was Douglas Little who married Martha Ann Wright, another daughter of John and Catherine Wright. In fact on the 1850 and 1860 census, Martha's parents are living in her house. One son of Douglas and Martha Little was called Powhatan who wrote much about their ancestry and named most of his children accordingly. Powhatan's daughter, Laura, was researching Cleopatra, another child of the famous Indian Chief Powhatan and our native american blood.
*Other daughter of Lattie Little Coonfield was Amy Marie, who married Joseph Gray and their child, Dorlene, was researching the indian blood in the Little family. Family lore is that the Coonfields were also indian blood.
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