Death of Brother

Source: Canton Repository, Jan 31, 1901 Pg. 6

War Veteran Dies

Brother of Captain W.H. Little Dies in Salem-Family of Soldiers.

Salem News-Lewis J. Little, another civil war veteran, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon. He was a victim of lung trouble. He was born at Damascus in 1814 and has spent his entire life in this vicinity and a good part of it in this city. He served in the Twenty-sixth Ohio battery from August, 1863, to the close of the war of the Rebellion, going out from this city. His mother, Mrs. Nancy Little, aged 83 years, of Damascus, the sister at whose home he died and two brothers, Capt. W.H. Little, of the county recorder's office at Canton, and J.L. Little of Bridgeport, survive him. These brothers, with a fourth named Dilworth, all went to the front from this city during the war. The later is buried at Natchez, Miss., and was a comrade of his brother, Lewis, in the Twenty-sixth Ohio battery.

*age year in news article is incorrect.