Joseph Littlefield's Family Reunion, Aurora, Nebraska, 1906

Title

Joseph Littlefield's Family Reunion, Aurora, Nebraska, 1906

Description

The photograph shows a part of Joseph Littlefield's family (his second wife Charlotte, his children from two marriages, his sisters) near the Littlefields' home in Aurora, Nebraska where Joseph moved in 1904.

Born in Peoria County, Illinois in 1840 Joseph Littlefield served almost three years in the Civil War as a private in company C of 102nd Illinois volunteer regiment. After the war he returned to Illinois and married Hellen Crandle. In 1879 Joseph Littlefield and his family that included his mother Joanna, who was 71 at the time, came to Nebraska Clear Creek area, Sherman County to homestead. Hellen died in 1881 and six years later Joseph, now 47, married 24 year-old Lotta (Charlotte) Roberts, and had 7 more children with her, of whom only 5 survived. Littlefield moved to Aurora, Nebraska in 1904 and died there in 1911.

The photograph comes from the collection of Terri and Dave Mabon. Dave Mabon is Joseph Littlefield's great-grandson.

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Source

Terri and Dave Mabon, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010

Date

1906

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Format

still image

Type

image

Original Format

photograph

Files

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Citation

“Joseph Littlefield's Family Reunion, Aurora, Nebraska, 1906,” History Harvest, accessed March 29, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/204.

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