LITTLE (RUTHA BORING) CEMETERY

Located under Greenway Drive where it dead ends at John Exum Parkway, Johnson City, TN.

Rutha Boring Little, b. 1806, d. 1889

Tabitha Ann Little, b. 1850, d. 1888

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Rutha requested to be buried in the apple orchard on her farm and not in the city cemetery where her husband John Little (b. 16 July 1806, d. 1862) was buried. Her two-story log home was located where Science Hill High School is now located. Rutha was the daughter of Joshua Boring. Tabitha Ann was the daughter of John and Rutha Little.

NOTE:

More information about this family can be found in The Little Family ancestors and Descendants of Jonas Little 1735-1818: Pioneer Settler to Tennessee by Dessie Little Simmons,  Johnson City, TN 37601.

History of Washington County, Tennessee, 1988 by the Watauga Association of Genealogists, PO Box 117, Johnson City, TN 37605-0117.

Tennessee Bible and Family Records: a Tennessee Bicentennial Project, 1996 by the Watauga Association of Genealogists, PO Box 117, Johnson City, TN 37605-0117.

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