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BROUGHT HOMEAFTER LONG SLEEPW. F. Little, Who Fell in Battle Forty Years Ago, Buriedat Preemption.rmI\14k lt;iiJr\21rAs ;i result of a secret mission to f Arkansas last week by .Mrs. Lucinda [ Armstrong’ of Preemption, and Dr. A.B. Bender, of Davenport, a very unique and intersting funeral service (| was held at the little home near Preemption Sunday morning.The service was oxer the remainsof \V. K. Little, who marched awav_ •from the home at Preemption just 40 years ago Sunday to the day, and who fell in the first engagement in \ which his company participated jtfter lt;he joined the army. Private Littlereceived his death wound at the -battle of Prairie drove in Arkansas, yDecember 7, 18lt;2, and died three days later. He was buried by his com- trades and a description of his burial «place written home to his relatives.That letter was all the searcher-had .to go on, when it was decided a few weeks ago by Private Little's sis- v ter, Mrs. Armstrong, to hunt tip the agrave and remove* the body to the family cemetery at Preemption.The mission was kept a secret until \ the news ••successful was flashed over the wire to Preemption friends.The searchers had found that thebody had been removed from the or- f iginal resting place and buried in the r National cemetery nt Fayetteville, Ark.The funeral services were held atthe home where Mr. Little was born j,and raised and were very largely at- Ttended. The pallbearers were chosen \ from among his comrades and boy-hood friends, several lt;f them mem- r hers of Company C, 37th Illinois in- fan try, which was Mr. Little’s com- ] pany. Two of them were men who s had dug the grave and assisted at the burial after the battle 211 Prairie (1 rave. They are old men now, but \ they were boys then. ' jV\
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Rock Island Argus
Rock Island, Illinois, US
Tue, Sep 02, 1902
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