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Posted: 7 Apr 2000 7:00PM GMT
Edited: 24 Jun 2001 4:44PM GMT
I am also searching for a Charlotte Goe who married a Simpson aand later a Smothers and also any info on a mulatto slave owned by a MARGARET (GOE) HUTTON in Fayette County,Pa. named Mulatto David. In her will he was supposedto be set free as soon as he learned toread write and decipher numbers.

Goe family

Posted: 4 Sep 2000 4:56PM GMT
Edited: 8 Jul 2001 11:37PM GMT
I am trying to trace a Rebecca Goe who married Matthew Little. The only date I have is Matthew's death in 1864. I believe they lived in Fayette County, in or near Connellsville, Pa. They had 3 children, Annie,born 1858, Henry,1860, and John, 1862

Rebecca Goe

Helen Carbonneau (View posts)
Posted: 17 Dec 2000 10:32AM GMT
Regis, Rebecca was the wife of my great-great-grandfather's brother, Matthew. Guess that makes us some kind of cousins. I have a lot of family info, but don't usually have access to e-mail. You can call me at (802) 479-3681.

Rebecca Goe

Posted: 1 Feb 2001 4:24PM GMT
Edited: 1 Jul 2001 11:58PM GMT
I am Helen Carbonneau's aunt. Matthew Little was my great, great grandfather, John Little's brother. Rebecca's father was Henry B. Goe. Our family has traced Henry B. Goe as coming from Maryland to Pennsylvania. Matthew Little was part colored from a union with John Little and Mary Ellen Batch from Perryopolis, PA. Henry B. Goe is listed in Fayette County, Pennsylvania records as a free colored man. We are mostly from a union with John Little and his second wife. You can call me if you wish at 770-458-9846, if you wish or send an E-mail.

Goe-Little

Posted: 3 Feb 2001 12:29PM GMT
Edited: 8 Jul 2001 11:37PM GMT
Darlene, Matthew did not have a brother named John. John is the name of his father and his son. His son was never married and his father had only one wife who was listed as Mary Ellen, Ellen, Elinore or Elleanor Batch. Which one of Matthew's parents were colored? John or Mary Ellen?

Goe-Little

Posted: 3 Feb 2001 8:55PM GMT
Edited: 1 Jul 2001 11:58PM GMT
Regis Murphy: To begin with, how are you related to everyone insofar as the Goes and the Littles? You were absolutely right that Matthew's father is John and not his brother.

My sister, Loretta Fischer (Helen Carbonneau's mother, just recently told me that John Little (a/k/a Lyttle)had two wives. When I find out who Wife No. 2 was, I will let you know. The 1860 Census for Fayette County, PA lists Matthew Little (age 25) with his wife Rebecca, (age 24) and two children, Anna, age 2, and Henry (age 4 mos.). Yesterday, I pulled up on Ancestry World Tree, Matthew Little, with Rebecca Goe and their children, Annie Melissa Little, Henry Hunter Bell Little, John Solomon Little and Laura Little. The sheet lists siblings as Nancy Anne Little, William B. Little, Mary Ann Little, Harriet M. Little, David Porter Little, Daniel Aaron Little and Brien Little. John Little is listed as Matthew's father and William Batch and Nancy Bradley are listed as Ellen's mother (her name is listed here as Ellen). I pulled up Ellen Batch on Ancestry.com yesterday and her brothers and sisters were Elizabeth Batch, Ann Batch, William Batch and Stephen Batch. I live in Chamblee, Georgia (just outside of Atlanta, GA). I grew up in Connellsville, PA and graduated from Immaculate Conception High School in Connellsville, PA in 1962.
Mary Ellen, also known as Elinor, Ellenor Batch, Bach, etc. was colored. According to Jean Little, who lives in Minneapolis, Minn and who was married to Matthew Little's grandson, John Little's first wife's grandfather was Henry Bryan, who served with the Colored Infantry in the Revolutionary War. The 1850 Census for Fayette County, PA lists Henry Goe as a free colored man, with his wife, Nancy, and his children, Joseph (Age 23), Jackson (Age 21), James (Age 19), Rebecca (Matthew Little's wife - age 16), Jessica (Age 13) and Elizabeth (probably a granddaughter) as age 4.
The 1850 Census for Perry Twp, PA lists John Lyttle (Age 50)(his name was misspelled) as a laborer(with Mulatto) after the family name, his wife, Ellenor (Age 45), their children, Mary Ann, 17, Matthew, 14, Harriet, 12, David, 11, Daniel P., 9, Bryan A., 5, and Roxanna, 1. I have a picture of Henry B. Goe, and a write up about him from the Fayette County, PA history book.
My great-grandfather was Daniel Little, who was fair-complected. Matthew was supposed to have been a little dark complected and is listed as colored in PA records and his occupation was a hauler of coal. Matthew died on Sept 5, 1864 at Stevenson Depot, Virginia during the Civil War. He had voluntarily enlisted in the Civil War on February 13, 1864. A lot of his family lives in Minnesota. According to Jean Little, Rebecca Goe Little took off with her brother-in-law, James Simpson, while Matthew was fighting the Civil War and went to live in Ohio. It seems according to records, that Daniel Little took in Matthew's daughter, Annie, because the 1870 Census for Fayette County, PA lists Annie as living with his family. Daniel Little's daughter, Haddie May was my grandmother. Haddie May had two illegitimate children by a Michael Hennessey, whom I believe lived in Bradford, PA, one before she married James Casbar, and one to Hennessey, just before she divorced him. James Casbar was a Sicilian Italian (I am sure Casbar was not his real name.) At any rate, that accounts for the fact that even more of my side of the family is even fairer complected than some of the rest. I keloid. Keloids are scar tissue that forms with certain puncture wounds or perhaps a scratch. Also, I am recently being tested for sarcoidosis, which is prevalent when races are mixed up with both the black race and the Indians. My older sister, Mary Elizabeth Johnson, died in 1963. One of the causes on her death certificate stemmed from sarcoidosis, which can show up resembling Rheumatoid Arthritis. At any rate, my mother was Sarah Russek from Connellsville, PA. Sarah died on December 8, 1998 after a series of strokes. Sarah was married to Joseph Matthew Russek (f/k/a Urosek and f/k/a as Dzurosek). Sarah bore eight children, Mary, Loretta, JoAnne, Henry, Thomas, Joseph, Darlene, and John. Some of the genealogy studies I just quoted you above are recent stuff my sister brought back from Pennsylvania when she went up to Connellsville for her high school class reunion in August. She paid an historian at the Uniontown Library to help her collect these papers. Carolyn Wettgen (wife of George Wettgen, who is Aunt Mary Neth (Daniel's daugher's) illegitimate child. Carolyn sent me an obituary for a Vaughn Goe who died last October in Vanderbilt, PA (just outside of Connellsville). I have a recent Connellsville phone directory and may write to the Goe family still living there and there is a Goe listed for Perryopolis. Daniel Little's first wife was also a Goe. Daniel was her second husband. Her name was Sarah Lancaster Little. Sarah's mother was Lydia Goe, who married William Lancaster. We would particularly like to know where she is buried. I was sort of stunned when I found out the Goe connection recently. Daniel Little's 2nd wife was Sarah Ellen Firestone Adams. I knew there was either black or Indian, or both, in our family past since 1989, when I came across the 1850 Census at the Carnegie Free Library in Connellsville. Before that, every time we got back to John Little in trying to find out about the family, everybody went stone cold and clammed up. It infuriated my mother when I came back to her house and told her about it. Abraham Lincoln once said, "It is not what your grandparents were, it is what you are." I have a stack of ancestry papers in front of me. Also, I hope you don't hate me for telling you all of this information. Also, we are trying to find out how we are all related to the Pattersons and the Hays. Any clues? At any rate, I am married to Bill Hess (Delbert W.) for 33 years today, February 3. We have three children, Delbert W. Hess, III, Age 31, Daniel, Age 30 and Brian Hess, Age 28. If you wish to E-mail me again, please feel free. Where do you live? What do you do for a living? Hope to hear from you soon!

Darlene A. Hess

Goe-Little

Posted: 4 Feb 2001 12:51PM GMT
Edited: 8 Jul 2001 11:37PM GMT
Darlene,
Matthew Little was my great great grandfather, his daughter Annie Melissa was my great grandmother. I am from Connellsville also and attended the same school as you did, only earlier. I appreciate all the information you gave me. What is your email address?

Little, Goe - Rebecca Goe

Posted: 4 Feb 2001 2:34PM GMT
Edited: 1 Jul 2001 11:58PM GMT
Regis:

Thank you for responding to my E-mail regarding our family. My E-mail address is aadwhess@cs.com. My telephone number is (770) 458-9846(H). I am glad that you appreciate the information I gave you. I have a whole stack of genealogy papers that I copied some of my information from, plus I used the Ancestry.com some. I am unemployed again after 4 years, so while I am looking for a new job as a legal secretary, I have taught myself how to use the Internet and am having fun. Besides, now, I am meeting a new relative I did not know I had. I can remember as a little girl going to one of the Little family reunions in Vanderbilt with Uncle Henry Hennessey (Haddie Mae Little Casbar's illegitimate son). I remember particularly Jessie Murphy and Bobbie Little. Everyone thinks that Bobbie still has the family bible that Edna Rodgers, Charles Rodgers and my great aunt Elizabeth King kept. Do you have any old family pictures? We are looking for family pictures and will pay to have them copied. I know they had pictures of John Solomon Little, the dwarf. Actually, there were two dwarfs in the family. I don't know the other dwarf's name. Daniel Little and John Solomon Little used to travel some with a carnival sideshow. Daniel used to sell medicines he made and John was on display. The Connellsville Library has an old history book with a picture in it of Daniel Little riding a bicycle. He was listed as the first person in Pennsylvania history to ride a bicycle. Jean Little, Loretta Fischer, Helen Carbonneau, Joseph Russek and myself are trying to locate some of the old pictures. I correspond with George Wettgen and Carolyn Wettgen. He was Aunt Mary Casbar Neth's illegitimate son, who could never find out anything about the family until I started writing to them. I even called Carolyn several times. She sent me a recent Connellsville area phone book, if you need any addresses, let me know. I did call one Goe listed for Brownsville, PA and the woman screamed at me and said "I just married into the family, I don't know about it and slammed the phone down on me." I did not know you were going to react when I told you the truth about things. Let me hear from you some more. Have you plugged in Connellsville, PA on the Internet? Connellsville has quite a nice Web site. I found out that Connellsville has caves and I never knew that before. Also, two of the cemetery associations are selling computer printouts of people listed in their cemeteries.

Little, Goe - Rebecca Goe

Posted: 4 Feb 2001 3:03PM GMT
Edited: 1 Jul 2001 11:58PM GMT
Regis:
I screwed up on my last message and put your name on it, instead of mine.

Thank you for responding to my E-mail regarding our family. My E-mail address is aadwhess@cs.com. My telephone number is (770)458-9846(H). I am glad that you appreciate the information I gave you. I have a whole stack of genealogy papers that I copied some of the information from, plus I used the Ancestry.com some. I am unemployed again after four years, so while I am looking for a new job as a legal secretary, I have taught myself how to use the Internet and am having fun. Besides, now, I am meeting a new relative I did not know I had. I can remember as a little girl going to one of the Little family reunions in Vanderbilt with Uncle Henry Hennessey (Haddie May Little Casbar's illegitimate son). I remember particularly Jessie Murphy and Bobbie Little. Everyone thinks Bobbie still has the family bible that Edna Rodgers, Charles Rodgers and my great aunt Elizabeth King kept. Do you have any old family pictures? We are looking for family pictures and will pay to have them copied. I know they had pictures of John Solomon Little, the dwarf. Actually, there were two dwarfs in the family. I don't know the other dwarf's name. Daniel Little and John Solomon Little used to travel around the countryside some with a carnival sideshow. Daniel used to sell medicines he made and John was on display. The Connellsville Library has an old history book with a picture in it of Daniel Little riding a bicycle. He was listed as the first person in Pennsylvania history to ride a bicycle. Jean Little, Loretta Fischer, Helen Carbonneau, Joseph Russek and I are trying to locate some of the old pictures. I correspond with George Wettgen and Carolyn Wettgen. He was Aunt Mary Casbar Neth's illegitimate son, who could never find out anything about the family ntil I started writing to them. I even called Carolyn several times. She sent me a recent Connellsville area phone book. If you need any addresses, please let me know. I did call one Goe listed for Brownsville, PA and the woman screamed at me and said "I just married into the family, I don't know about it," and slammed the phone down on me. I did not know how you were going to react when I told you the truth about things. Let me hear from you some more. Have you plugged in Connellsville, PA on the Internet? Connellsville has quite a nice Web site. I found out that Connellsville has caves and I never knew that before. Also, two of the cemetery associations are selling computer printouts of people listed in their cemeteries.

Re: Rebecca Goe

Posted: 16 Nov 2001 4:08AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 18 Nov 2001 3:49AM GMT
Hello Darlene,
It was very interesting stumbling in here and reading all about my family. My father is John Raymond Little, Jr. His father is John Raymond Little,Sr. His father is Henry Hunter Litttle etc..
My Great Aunt is Edna Little Rogers. Jean Litttle is my aunt and I am up her in Minnestoa. Her husband is my fathers brother. John Sr had 10 children with wife Agnes Serena McEachran. I think we might be related. you think
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