Posted on: La Porte Co. In Obituaries
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Surname: Oaks, Little, Johnston, Rudd, Goodell, Fisher, Goodwin, Kellar
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An annoucement was made in the Canby News (MN) last week of the death of
Mrs James Little;, a pioneer settler of the Canby community, which occurred
Wednesday, June 15th, at the home of her son Reuben B Little, in St Paul...
Mary Experience Oaks, widow of James Little, was born in a log cabin near
La Porte, IN, September 15, 1842. She came with here parents to Orononco,
Olmsted County, MN in the year 1854, where her father (Orrin Oaks) had
taken a pre-emption. The family moved to Rochester 8 years later, where
she was living when she was married in 1867 to James Little, a veteran
of the Civil War....
She leaves on earth four sons and 12 grandchildren, one son and one daugher
preceded her in death (Reuben Button, Orrin John, James Francis, Guy Andrew,
Charles David, Mary Elizabeth)...She had been a member of three old settlers
organizations, in two of which she was a pioneer. She was a Daughter of
the American Revolution.