LITTLE, ROBERT

by Robert Little

Entry F255 from the History of Hooker County Nebraska
with permission of the Hooker County Historical Society

Letter to the Editor from Robert Little to
the Hooker County Tribune December 1963.

Dear Editor:
Here I come again, I have some more to tell
you.

Charlie Rector was the sheriff of Hooker
County in 1901. He is the man who went to
the livery stable for my mother when she
arrived in Mullen in 1901. His brother, Billie
Rector and Henry Huffgard owned the livery
stable.

Steve James and his family moved from
elkhart, Texas to Mullen in 1888. They got
off the train in Mullen with only $50 in his
pocket. He bought a yoke of steers and that
year a prairie fire burned him out and the
following year the hot winds came. He said
he would have left if he could, and told me
that there wasn't but one thing that would
have made him move and that was if the
timber started growing there. That was in
1902 or 1903.

When my step-father moved there in
March, 1901, he bought a team, some corn
and a hog from Mr. James for about $175 or
$180. In the fall of 1910 he sold $1500 worth
of yearling calves.

I plowed for Ed Catron in April, 1901.

Calvin Long was the tax collector in April,
1901. He was Paul Little's great-grandpa.
Charlie Long was tax collector in 1902 and
1903. He was Paul's grandpa.

In October, 1910, I worked for Hugh Boyer.
Haskle and I slept in the barn loft. Hugh and
his wife were working over the house. Their
daughters, Lessie and Gussie were pretty
good size girls then.