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S. LITTREL, a prominent farmer of Concord Township, Louisa County, residing on section 2, was born in Union County, Ind., in 1814, and was the eldest in a family of nine children born to John and Sarah (Asher) Littrel, natives of Tennessee, though the mother was of Irish descent. His father was born March 10, 1793, and his mother March 3, 1799. They were married in Tennessee, and almost immediately afterward moved to Indiana, which was then a Territory, and which was just beginning to be settled. In this wilderness, which it then was, they resided until their death, the former dying on the evening of July 24, 1835, and the latter the following morning. United in life, in death they were not separated. Both were buried in one grave.
Our subject grew to manhood in his native State, receiving his education in the common schools. The year following the death of his parents, when twenty-two years old, he settled in Mercer County, Ill., where he engaged in breaking prairie for several years. In that county, in 1841, he was united in marriage with Margaret A. Noble, who was born in Indiana, and is a daughter of Daniel and Barbara A. (Fruit) Noble, the former a native of North Carolina, the latter of Pennsylvania. They went to Indiana when it was a Territory, the father there entering Government land, which he improved, and on which he lived until his removal to Mercer County, Ill., in 1836. The father died in that county in 1879, at the age of ninety-three years, and the death of the mother occurred in 1874, at the age of eighty-eight years.
After their marriage Mr. Littrel and his young wife settled in Mercer County, Ill., but removed to Muscatine County, Iowa, in February, 1844, where he bought land and improved a farm of 160 acres. Residing in Muscatine County until 1863, he then came to Louisa County, where he purchased an improved farm of 160 acres in Concord Township, which he now has under a high state of cultivation. In 1881 a nice farm residence was erected, which he still makes his home, though renting the land. This farm is pleasantly situated about two and three-fourths miles from Letts, in one of the finest farming districts of the county. Politically, Mr. Littrel is a Republican, and in 1840 voted for William Henry Harrison. He assisted in organizing some of the school districts of his township, has served as School Director for a number of years, and is one of the highly respected citizens of the community.
Seven children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Littrel, four of whom are living: Anderson died of consumption in 1862, at the age of twenty years and four months; Barbara Orinda, now Mrs. Reynolds, resides in Los Angeles, Cal.; Parris died at . . .
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. . . the age of twenty-three years, in 1867; John married Mary M. Moley, and resides on the home farm; James Albert, who is single, lives in Montana; Ann Myra died in 1881, when nearly twenty-seven years of age; Bernard became the husband of Etta Chapman in 1877, and makes his home in Muscatine County.
The portraits of this worthy pioneer couple will be found on an accompanying page.
