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Mr. Johnson is now forty-one years of age,
and has accumulated enough of this world's
goods to enable him to spend the remainder
of his days in comfort.
Dallas county, was born in Shelby
county, Illinois, October 25, 1834, a
son of John Little, also a native of Illinois.
The latter moved to Texas in 1835, landing
in Montgomery county, but took a claim of
4,444 acres in Dallas county, and died on his
way from Anderson county to this large tract
*of land. The farm was sold to the administrator,
and the children received but a small
portion of this large body of fine land. Mr.
Little died in July, 1854, and his wife, nee
Bettie Bateman, born July 6, 1807, died at
the age of fifty years. They were the parents
of ten children, namely: Pressie A., wife
of J. M. Spillers; Pollie, now Mrs. S. B.
Owens; Abral; Elizabeth J., wife of William
Grove; William J.; John M.; Nancy, wife of
William Bryant; Riley T., who was killed in
the war; Bertha M., wife of Bishop Compton;
Sarah C., wife of Ed Herring.
William J., after the death of his father,
brought the children to Dallas county, where
he took care of them until their marriage.
After his marriage Mr. Little pre-empted
160 acres of land, which he improved, but
after five years sold this place and moved to
where he now lives. He saved 197 acres out
of his father's large tract, to which he afterward
added 160 acres more, and he now has
700 acres of well improved land. He also
followed stock-raising, but of late years has
abandoned that occupation, and his entire
farm is now managed by his son. Mr. Little
was married October 14, 1855, to Miss RoseAmos, who was born June 6, 1842, in Virginia.
Her father, Joseph Amos, moved
from Virginia to Texas in 1850, and died in
Parker county, at the age of seventy years.
His wife, nee Sophia Davis, died at the age
of forty years. Mr. and Mrs. Amos had ten
children, viz.: Thomas J., deceased; Elizabeth,
who died when young; Martha, who also died
in infancy; Mary, wife of John Curtis;
Rosana, now Mrs. William J. Little; Sarah,
wife of James Milton; Jane; Eliza, wife of
William Wheeler; Nancy, wife of William
Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Little are the parents
of seven children: Martha, wife of John
Bolding; Riley T.; Mary, wife of Wilbor
Williams; Rosa, wife of Fletcher Warren;
Lillie, now Mrs. Perish Horn; Lula and
Minnie. Mrs. Little is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
F. CARSON, Deputy Sheriff of Dallas,
was born in Greene county, Tennessee,
a son o' David and Margaret
(Phillips) Carson, natives of Virginia and
Tennessee. The family removed from Tennessee
to Dallas in 1880, and in 1889 to
Childress county. The father was a farmer
by occupation, and was a soldier in the late
war, having served as a private in the Department
of the Gulf. He was well and
favorably known as an upright and worthy
citizen. He has done his part in opening up
the frontier, and preparing the way for the
race of a higher civilization and progress.
He is now seventy-eight years of age, and
his wife died at the age of sixty-seven years.
They were the parents of nine children, six
of whom still survive: J. A., who married
Miss Jennie Simmons, and they now reside
on a farm near Childer; T. F., our subject;-
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/1033/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.