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Jonas married Betsy Douglass in 1798 Union County South Carolina and his brother John and their father George Little migrated to Barren Kentucky to a place called Vienna, later moving to the Green River area in Calhoun, McLean County, which was formed from part of Ohio County, then the area was called Daviess County. The Little Campground is what the area was called. Mary Handley's brother Captain John Handley had previously surveyed this area and invited them to join him at Vienna, offering his sisters Mary and Rachel several acres of land and John soon became a Legislator. Parents of the Handleys were Martha Mason and George Handley of Ireland, and Martha's mother was Martha Worthington and we see many of their family names in Kentucky.
Jonas Little was born in 1780 in Newberry, Union, SC to Scottish parents Mary and George Little and his mother died a few years after his birth.
About 1802 his father married his mother in law, Mary Handley Douglass who was also widowed. Her husband Alexander Douglass died on a survey trip to Kentucky with Mary's brother John Handley. Mary's other two daughters married Hunt and Minton.
George had daughters who married Humphrey, Hunt, Spray, and they all moved the entire clan to Kentucky, as found on the 1810 and 1820 census records along with several other names from Newberry who accompanied them on this journey.
John Little eventually moved to Tennessee, then Texas, followed by a son of Jonas, named Dr. Hiram Little, a doctor from the Civil War. Another Hiram Little served in the Battle at the Alamo but may have been the son of John or one of the other Littles found in 1790 Union SC.
The sons of Jonas were very successful men, masons, businessmen. Wesley owned a hotel but was shot in the back when he called a man a liar. Douglass made plows and wagons in his own shop, but soon became an attorney and Judge. Hiram was a Mason and a Physician/ Surgeon in the Civil War. Hiram and Douglass both married daughters of Katherine Weatherford Wright, daughter of Charles and possibly grand-daughter of Mary Half Blood. We do know that Douglass named a son Lucius Powhatan Little, so there is some indication to their native blood.
1790 indicates another Jonas Little who might have been the father of George Little or a brother, and a John and a Joseph who must be all kin.
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