When Vernon Burpee Little was born on 14 November 1905, in Alexander, North Carolina, United States, his father, Robert Daniel Little, was 26 and his mother, Myrtle Elizabeth Kerley, was 18. He lived in Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States in 1920 and Hiddenite, Alexander, North Carolina, United States in 1985. He died on 4 May 1985, in Alexander, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in White Plains Baptist Church Cemetery, Taylorsville, Alexander, North Carolina, United States.
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).
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