HIRAM LITTLE

Hiram Little was born in Coalville, Bond County, Illinois. His cemetery marker at Willis City Cemetery is engraved with birth and death dates of April 9, 1809 and September 13, 1891.

On July 11, 1831 Hiram married Mary Lindley in Illinois. She was born in 1813, the daughter of Samuel Washington Lindley and Elizabeth Whitley. She was a sister of Elijah Lindley, John Lindley, James Lindley, and also of Jonathan Lindley who died at the Alamo. The first two children of Hiram and Mary were born in Illinois before they made the move to Texas in the company of the Lindleys and other relatives.
Hiram arrived in Texas on the 20th of January 1835, according to his sworn testimony before the Montgomery County Land Commission. His witnesses were B. B. Goodrich and Elijah Collard.
He is listed on the tax list of Montgomery Co. in 1841 -1845 He resided in Danville and later in Willis.
In the minutes of the first session of the court in Walker County, July, 1846, he was appointed to supply hands for a road from Huntsville to Houston; his residence must have fallen into the boundaries of Walker when that county was cut from Montgomery.
Hiram was listed as a Master Mason in the year 1857 in the San Jacinto Masonic Lodge 106 at Danville.
He was fifty-one and his wife was forty-six at the time of the 1860 census in Montgomery County.
Hiram joined the Danville Mounted Riflemen in April, 1861, as a private. He did not join the regular CSA army, being quite a bit over age.

At the end of the war, Hiram signed the Amnesty Oath in Montgomery County. His signature was copied into a list of signatures and bound into a book in the clerk's office.
He was elected County Commissioner for Pct. 1 in 1881.
He was a member of Texas Veterans, having joined at the convention held in Belton in 1883, when he was 74. The records of the Texas Veterans show that he stated he served in the Texas War for Independence in 1835 and 1836.

In census records, he listed his occupation as farmer.
He died on 13 September 1891 and is buried in the Willis City Cemetery at Willis, Montgomery County. There is a Texas Revolutionary War plaque on his grave.

Photo courtesy of Anna Shepeard, January 2004.

A descendant of this couple is Carol Todd. She furnished much of the above biographical information.

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