LITTLE, George Allen - L-Obituaries

GEORGE ALLEN LITTLE,  oldest child of Joseph and Nancy Maris Little, was born August 2, 1862.  Died February 28, 1915, aged 52 years, 6 months and 26 days.   His mother died in the month of November 1875, leaving him at the tender age of 13 years, together with his four sisters and one brother, the youngest child, who was but six months old to the sole care of the father, who still is spared as their comfort and counselor.

He grew to manhood on the homestead where he died.  Just prior to his majority he went to the state of Kansas, and there spent 9 years at general farm labor, and working with a construction company in building levees along the Mississippi river.

Since his return from the West he spent practically his entire time on the homestead as a steady, honest and valuable helper.   He was converted in a meeting held by B. P. Phelps of the U. B. church in  Harveysburg and sometime afterward joined the Friends church during a series of meetings held by Willis Bond in the M. E. church in Kingman, Ind., remaining a member till death.

He is survived by his aged father, his four sisters, Emmer Jane,   Luella,  Martha Ann   and Sarah  Elizabeth, his youngest brother, William Baxter,  four nephews and two nieces, and six aunts.

His educational facilities were the common school with only a few terms of attendance;  but possessing a active and retentive memory, and by persistent reading and observation, he obtained a wide knowledge of current events, such as the high school graduate might well emulate.

He had been in failing health for the past year, but to the family and friends his going was unlooked for at this time.   He was a faithful reader of the scriptures and a believer in their teachings, and while not at all times since his conversion doing the things required by the righteous law, he never condoned nor sought to cover up, but believed in upright living, and always privately and many times in the public assembly he gave willing testimony to the fact.  And for the month or more before going, he spoke to his sisters more freely than usual as to being ready to exchange worlds, assuring them that he was ready for the change and desired,  if it was the Lord’s will, that when his time come that the change might be quick, which desire was granted him, and he passed swiftly and painlessly out to the land beyond human sight.

Funeral services were held in the Friends church at 1:30 o’clock Monday afternoon in the presence of a large congregation.  The scripture reading was by Rev. A. H. Rardin and the obituary was ready by Aunt Sarah Lindley, followed by an excellent sermon by Rev. Levi Woody.   Interment was made in the Harveysburg cemetery. -s