SAMUEL M. LITTLE was born March 1, 1811, in Fleming county, Kentucky, and was the son of Samuel and Mary Little, nee Newcomb, who was born in Virginia, and moved to Kentucky, where he raised a family of nine children; then to St. Clair county, Illinois, and thence to Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1820, where he settled two and a half miles southwest of the present State House, and resided there until his death, January 1, 1847; his wife died in July, 1823. Samuel M. was married January 29, 1843, to Eliza M. Morgan; she was born in Fleming county, Kentucky, August 24, 1824, and is the daughter of Daniel and Mary Morgan, nee Woods, who came to Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1828; her father died September 6, 1866, at the age of eighty-two, and her mother January 20, 1876, in her ninety-first year; their family consisted of seven children, four of whom are living: Gersham J., Sanford H., Harriet C., now Mrs. John W. Crafton, and Fannie Z. William H. was killed August 16, 1873; by an accident on the C. & A. Railroad, at Sag Bridge, near Chicago; Mary E. died October 30, 1855, and Minerva C., August 1, 1857. They still reside on the farm which his father settled in 1819, worth $15,000. Samuel M. Little engaged in the livery business, in 1852, and carried on the same until he lost his health, since which the business has been conducted by his two sons.