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LITTLETON, Charles, soldier of the American Revolution, aged 74, and a resident of Lauderdale County; private Georgia Militia; enrolled on October 29, 1833, under act of Congress of June 7, 1832, payment to date from March 4, 1831; annual allowance $80. --
Revolutionary Pension Roll in Vol. xiv, Sen. doc. 514, 23rd Cong., 1st sess. 1833-34.
He resided in Lauderdale County June 1, 1840, aged 79. --
Census of Pensioners 1841 p. 148.
He is buried in a little country graveyard 15 miles from Florence AL., and nearly a mile from Bethel Grove Methodist church on Middle Cypress Creek. His grave is marked by a stone which bears this inscription:
Charles Littleton - Revolutionary Soldier - Died March 29, 1848 at 3 p.m. - Aged about 103 or 105 years -
Mrs. P.H. Mell, in Alabama Historical Society, Transactions, vol.iv. p. 554 - There is a discrepancy in the age griven in the official records and on his tomb.
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography By Thomas McAdory Owen
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