When Jessie Winston Little Sr was born on 27 August 1908, his father, Ephraim Tilmon Little, was 44 and his mother, Ella Lucy Henson, was 28. He married Bernice Estell Beavers on 16 January 1927, in Paulding, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in District 879, Forsyth, Georgia, United States in 1940 and Douglas, Georgia, United States in 1950. He died on 3 February 1964, in Georgia, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Douglasville, Douglas, Georgia, United States.
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English: nickname for a small man (if not ironic), or distinguishing epithet for the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, from Middle English littel, Old English lȳtel (see Light 3).
Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Beagáin ‘descendant of Beagán’ (see Began ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of any of various European surnames meaning ‘little’, e.g. French Petit , Polish Mały (see Maly 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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