My Maternal Grandfather, John Joseph Little's sign up papers for WWI. He was born May 29, 1893 in Grand Falls, New Brunswick... son of Alice (nee St. Thomas) and Joseph Petit... changed it to Little when he moved to Woodstock at age 16 where there was little to no French spoken. After returning from overseas, he married Christina Muriel White who was born October 22, 1897 in Tignish, Goshen County, Nova Scotia. Her father was killed before she was born and her mother re-married. She was raised by her grandparents and had uncles who were fisherman. At 14, she went to Antigonish and worked for the Armour family as a maid and moved to Woodstock with them when they opened
Armour and Stewart, a hardware store that later became Stewart and Stewart. The Armours moved back to Nova Scotia but my grandmother decided to stay in Woodstock. She worked as a maid for George Boyer's family where John Little looked after the horses. John Little died August 19, 1935 and Christina Little died February 10, 1992. They had seven children Herbert Joseph Nelson Little born July 10th, 1920, stationed in Europe in the army during WWII, married to Jackie Killam and had a daughter, Lynn, then married Almeda Newell and had two sons named Michael Joseph and John William Little. Herbie died in March 25, 1999 and Almeda died December 7, 2002. Ruth Catherine (my mother) was born August 20, 1921 and married George Henry Gartley August 10, 1940 who died August 16, 1996. Ruth continued to live in Woodstock on Houlton Road in the house they bought in 1946 until she moved to Las Vegas where she died February 19, 2012. Harry Donald was born July 23, 1923, was stationed in Europe as a Military Policeman in the army in WWII and married Elizabeth Boone from St. John's, Newfoundland in 1964 and they had one daughter, Mary Beth and he died April 21, 1998. Elizabeth Bertella was born September, 1925 and married Louis Burant from Yorkton, Saskatchewan after meeting in the Canadian Army in St. John, New Brunswick. They had one daughter Carol and lived in Regina, Saskatchewan. Bertie died February 4th, 1970. Gerald Thomas was born March 12, 1927 and was stationed in Germany in the US Army after moving to Houlton, Maine... he married Loleeta Thompson of Woodstock and they had five children Cynthia, Susan (deceased), Karen, Jack (deceased) and Chris. Gerald currently lives in Salem, New Hampshire, where Loleeta died August 13, 2012. Mary Eleanor was born March 8th, 1929 and died March 1, 1948. Walter Edward (Bud) was born December 30, 1932 and married Fran from Swan River, Manitoba when he was stationed there in the Air Force. They have three children Barry, David and Richard (Ricky) and live in Saskatoon Saskatchewan. Fran died June 21, 2017.