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Copy on file at the Broadmoor Branch of Shreve Memorial Library, Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana:
Family Bible
of
The Alexander and Margaret Little
Transcribed by Donald W. Little
Shreveport, Louisiana
2007
Bible in possession of Steve Johnson of Nashville, Arkansas
(Bold wording is original; Italicized was added from secondary sources)
Page 1.
My Book Bought in Center Point Price $2.00 Sevier Co Ark
Alexander Little son of Theophilus F. Little and Martha Lowrey
Margaret Jane Ferguson daughter of Andrew Ferguson and Dorothea Cobb
Was maried the 30 of September 1857 Chattooga County, Georgia
Page 2.
First Column
Alexander Little was Born December the 9 1831 Carroll County, Georgia-died August 27th, 1911 Lockesburg, Sevier, Arkansas, Buried at Old Union)
Margaret Jane Little was Born October the 12 1839 Chattooga County, Georgia-died October 6, 1928, Buried at Old Union)
Martha Malinda Little was born August the 15 A.D. 1858 died July September 1865
Francis Elizabeth Little was Born October 6 A.D. 1860 died August 23 1937
Joseph Andrew Little was born December the 1 A.D. 1861 died July 1890
Sariah Lavonie died September 13, 1868 and Mary Lewellen was Born Sept the 17th A.D. 1866 died February 26, 1875
Second Column
Alexander Marion ^ Little was born July the 6th A.D. 1869
William Balous Little later spelled Bayless was Born January The 28th 1871 died April 26, 1944. Buried at Old Union)
John Thomas ^Little was born February The 4th A.D. 1873 died April 12, 1949
Walter Anderson Little was born December the 20th, A.D. 1874 died December 7, 1951
Emma Jane (?) Roselee Little was born March the 22 1878 died July 2, 1960
Tera Elzora Little Shinn was Born November the 1st 1880 died April 9, 1967
Pet Little Hale was born September 13th -1884 died April 9, 1954
Page 3.
First Column
Viola (?) was born in Janary 25-1890
(unreadable) Little was (unreadable) Janary (unreadable) 1892
(unreadable) Little was borned in December 20 1894
Alexander Little born September 20, 1896
Second Column
Jo.s F Little was Born Sept 28th 1833 son of Theophilus F. Little and Martha Lowrey
Lee Ethel Shinn Johnson was Born June 19-1902 died August 13, 2004
Alexander Little
In April 1861 Alex Little enlisted in Company C, 19 Arkansas Infantry, Confederate Army . While serving as a medic in St. John's College Hospital, Little Rock, he was captured when the city fell to the Union Army in 1863, but escaped and made his way to Washington, Hempstead County. Little became forage master for General Kirby Smith's cavalry and served in southwest Arkansas and Louisiana until the war ended. He was paroled at Marshall, Texas in May 1865 and returned to his home in Sevier County.
Alex became a prosperous farmer and stockman, operating a 320-acre farm about a mile and a half north of Lockesburg, Arkansas. He was a Democrat and, beginning in 1872, a Mason. My father remembered him as a jovial, good-natured man who had a winning way with children. Alex Little died August 27, 1911 and was buried with Masonic honors in Old Union Cemetery.
Margaret Jane Ferguson
Margaret Ferguson and her brother, William Simpson "Simp" Ferguson, were married to another brother/sister pair, Alexander "Alex" Little and Jane Elizabeth Little, in a double wedding on Sept. 30, 1857. This was probably right before the entire Andrew Ferguson Family moved from Chattooga County, Georgia, to Sevier County, Arkansas. Why did they move? Unsure at this time, but it was a good thing for the family that they did. Only two years later the War Between the States began. By 1865, Georgia was devastated. Had the family remained there, their history would have been quite different. At least four of Andrew and Dorothy's sons fought in the Civil War: Alfred Cobb Ferguson, Seville Ranson Ferguson, and Marion Francis Ferguson all fought and returned to their families. The fifth son, however, Miles N. Ferguson, did not return. He was married to Martha Jane Burkley on September 25, 1861. No record of him is found after the War, so it is assumed he died during this time. Malinda's husband, James M. Henderson, also served in the C.S.A., losing an arm at Chickamauga.
Dr. John L. Ferguson
Arkansas State Historian
1993
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