This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_920226779_boundary Content-ID: <0_920226779@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII HEY - THIS IS THE STUFF WE LIVE FOR. Just had to pass it along. And hey, don't feel bad about what your ancestors did or were. It's all part of their wonderful interesting history. Many of you might not know it but there were two Littletons (Lyttleton) back in England in 1604 that were executed for complicity in the Gun Powder Plot to blow up the King and his family. Remember Guy Falks Day??? "Remember, remember the 4th of November." We all have skeletons in the closet, but we also have lots of great Littletons also. Terry Littleton (listdad) --part0_920226779_boundary Content-ID: <0_920226779@inet_out.mail.admin.fhda.edu.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <oconnor@admin.fhda.edu> Received: from rly-yc04.mx.aol.com (rly-yc04.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.36]) by air-yc05.mail.aol.com (v56.26) with SMTP; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 11:09:32 -0500 Received: from tiptoe.fhda.edu (tiptoe.fhda.edu [153.18.8.1]) by rly-yc04.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id LAA25941 for <TLTURBO@aol.com>; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 11:09:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from [153.18.130.62] (HTCTUser62.fhda.edu [153.18.130.62]) by tiptoe.fhda.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA21616; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:09:41 -0800 (PST) X-Sender: to02754@mercury.fhda.edu Message-Id: <v04011702b2fe92f2f400@[153.18.130.62]> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:09:20 -0800 To: scbrown1@att.com From: "Terri O'Connor" <oconnor@admin.fhda.edu> Subject: WE'RE COUSINS!! Cc: TLTURBO@aol.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Welcome Stephanie C. Brown to the Alabama/Texas Littletons, We share the same ancestors. Your Oscar was one of the six children born to my grandfather John Edward (1856-1930) and his wife Ziltha Ann "Zilla" (Morgan) Littleton. On 4 April 1878 John and Zillia married in the Chilton Cty, AL home of the bride's parents, Lewis and Elizabeth Morgan. This is the abbreviated version of John's life: About 1893, John abandoned his wife Zilla and their children. He left them to work a 106-acre Alabama farm that were very close to John's parents, Lewis "Tank" and Harriet M. (Ellison) Littleton, and his married brothers and sisters. Actually, the first attempt was a half-hearted, probably the result of an argument. He took 6-year-old Oscar and started walking down the road. Of course, his brothers caught up with him and, because his young son was so upset and confused, they convinced John to return. Sometime later, he left in wagon early one morning to get grain. He never returned home. Along the road leading West, John started traveling with Thomas Zachary Taylor Dean and his wife Rachel (Phipps) and their 13 children, including their teenage daughter Alice Jane. The family was traveling with other Alabama family members to Texas. Within two years, my grandmother married my grandfather, more than 20 years her senior. The wedding took place in Iola, Grimes Cty, TX. As a result of their marriage, John and Alice had 11 children, the youngest one is my 83-year-old mother. In 1942, 12 years after my grandfather's death, James M. "Jim" Littleton, one of John's sons with Zilla, tracked the whereabouts of his father to Elkhart, Anderson Cty, TX. Jim, who was only 10 years older than my 65-year-old widowed grandmother, wanted answers to questions, especially what happened to his father. Needless to say, this visit was a shock. John never told Alice about his first family. During Jim's visit and an exchange visit to Alabama, my grandmother pieced together John's life. Because of the impact of this family secret, very few Texas Littletons (and their family members) could believe or acknowledge that John was a bigamist. I've never found a divorce decree. It wasn't until I got into using the computer to do genealogical research that I began connect with other "cousins" and unravel the truth. Even today, I have several 60+-year-old cousins who are in denial and/or too embarrassed to discuss this. Stephanie, I have more information on John and Zilla's ancestors/ siblings/ children. John fathered more than 17 children and he adopted at least two others...so imagine the wonderful opportunity you have to connect with so many members of your family. My advice is to buy a software package for genealogy because you have LOTS OF LITTLETON COUSINS!! E-mail me soon. Terri O'Connor oconnor@admin.fhda.edu P.S. Thanks Terry Littleton for passing this email along. I continue to put more family puzzle pieces together because of people like you. The Littleton list serve, and your efforts in keeping this going, is an invaluable service. God Bless You! Terri O'Connor Director of Marketing, Communications and Development De Anza College Cupertino, CA 95014 oconnor@fhda.edu (408) 864-8672 or FAX (408) 864-5454 --part0_920226779_boundary--