Terri and Dave Mabon
Title
Terri and Dave Mabon
Description
Terri and Dave Mabon shared documents and photographs of Dave Mabon's great-grandparents Joseph and Charlotte Littlefield at the Nebraska City History Harvest event held at the Lewis and Clark Missouri River Basin Visitors Center on September 12, 2010. The documents include Joseph Littlefield's Civil War records, Joseph and Charlotte's photographs taken at different periods of their life, Charlotte's correspondence with her sister and her daughter Josephine, and Josephine and her future husband's photos from Aurora High School.
Source
Terri and Dave Mabon, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Collection Items
Joseph Littlefield, Aurora, Nebraska 1906
Joseph Littlefield, pictured here next to his pharmacy on wheels near his house in Aurora, Nebraska in 1906, lived a long and eventful life.Born in Peoria County, Illinois in 1840, Littlefield served almost three years in the Civil War as a private…
Joseph Littlefield, Aurora, Neb., 1906
Joseph Littlefield, pictured here next to his pharmacy on wheels near his house in Aurora, Nebraska in 1906, lived a long and eventful life.Born in Peoria County, Illinois in 1840, Littlefield served almost three years in the Civil War as a private…
Joseph Littlefield
Joseph Littlefield, pictured here in a jacket, a bow tie, and wearing a GAR badge, lived a long and eventful life.Born in Peoria County, Illinois in 1840, Littlefield served almost three years in the Civil War as a private in company C of 102nd…
Joseph Littlefield
Joseph Littlefield, pictured here in a jacket, a bow tie, and wearing a GAR badge, lived a long and eventful life.Born in Peoria County, Illinois in 1840, Littlefield served almost three years in the Civil War as a private in company C of 102nd…
Joseph Littlefield's Funeral Card
Printed funeral cards like this one were distributed among family and friends to invite them to the ceremony and last rites. These cards are a valuable source for dates in a family history.
Joseph Littlefield lived a long and eventful life. Born in…
Joseph Littlefield's Memorial Card
The family of the deceased distributed printed memorial cards like this to people at the funeral as a remembrance of the deceased. They often featured appropriate verse and imagery.
Joseph Littlefield lived a long and eventful life. Born in Peoria…
Charlotte Littlefield
Charlotte (Lotta) Littlefield (nee Roberts) was Joseph Littlefield's second wife, whom he married in 1887 after his first wife Hellen died in 1881. Robertses came to Nebraska from Illinois 1864 to homestead in Cass County. The portrait most probably…
Cabinet Card
This is a photo of a woman (possibly Charlotte Littlefield) from the collection of Joseph Littlefield's papers belonging to Terri and Dave Mabon. Dave Mabon is Joseph Littlefield's great-grandson.
Born in Peoria County, Illinois in 1842, Joseph…
"Army of the Cumberland," 1904
!["Army of the Cumberland," 1904](https://historyharvest.unl.edu./files/square_thumbnails/049d05f7a630c7283933ac81995fb168.jpg ""Army of the Cumberland," 1904")
This poster is one in the eight great Union Armies poster/map series published by the National Tribune Co. Washington, D.C. in 1904. The Army of the Cumberland poster includes the basic dates and facts (its constitution, commanders, strength,…
Charlotte Littlefield's Pension Certificate
This is a pension certificate documenting Charlotte Littlefield's right to receive pension after her husband, Civil War veteran Joseph Littlefield died in 1911. Charlotte (Lotta) Littlefield (nee Roberts) was Joseph Littlefield's second wife, whom he…