Thomas Roberta Little and Forrest Ferguson

Thomas Robert Little, nicknamed Tommie, was the daughter of Richard Mobley Little and Ina Allen Bobbitt of Weakley County Tennessee. I have written previously about the Little-Ferguson-Moran connection after finding a jaunty picture of "Dr. Ted" aka Richard Little.   Tommie married Forrest Ferguson, Uncle Ferg, who is Kent's second cousin twice removed.   They had no children.

Sadly, Richard Mobley Little passed away in 1932 and his wife, Ina Bobbitt Little, spent the last 24 years of her life at Western State Hospital in Bolivar, Tennessee.  Leaving Tommie's sister and brother-in-law to "give the bride away."  Her sister Sarah E. Little was married to Charles Wesley Ward.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wesley Ward
announce the marriage of their sister
Thomas Roberta Little
to
Mr. Forrest Ferguson
on Tuesday, the Thirtieth of July
Nineteen hundred thirty-five
Greenfield, Tennessee










Ferg was the son of Charles Augustus Ferguson and Sophia A. Irvine.  He enjoyed fishing and had been in the Navy.  Later he was the Postmaster at Greenfield, Tennessee.

In the picture below a young Forrest is pictured with his mother Sophia Irvine Ferguson and his two brothers Harry M. Ferguson (1906-1969) and Albert Granville Ferguson (1902-1991).  Taken about 1907.

Popular Couple Married Here
A wedding that attracted wide interest throughout West Tennessee was quietly performed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack McAdams last Tuesday evening at 8:00 o'clock, when Miss Tommie Little of Martin, was married to Mr. Forrest Ferguson, of Dresden, with the Rev. Cayce Pentecost saying the ceremony.  The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R.M. Little, while the groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ferguson.


The bride wore a beautiful gown of green gorgette with orchid accessories and a corsage of orchids.  The star was beautiful in its simplicity decorated with green candles and purple asters.  The house was decorated with gladiolus.


The bride is a graduate of Peabody college and Vanderbilt University.  She has been a member of the Martin High School faculty for the past five years.  The groom is a member of the firm of Ferguson Cotton Company, of New York.


The out of town guests attending the wedding were:  Dr. and Mrs. Glendenin, Mrs. W. B. Simmons, Mary Elizabeth LaFon, Frank Smith, Maureen Wilson and Mrs. Bill Wilson, of Martin; Mrs. Ophie Ferguson, Sam Winstead and Albert Ferguson, of Dresden.


After a two weeks honeymoon in Wisconsin, they will be at home in Dallas, Tex.

Bub Moran with his Gun

Nathan "Bub" Moran and Kitty.  Dogs: unknown.  :)
Taken about 1923.

This is such a sweet picture and to be honest I looked at it several times before I even noticed he was holding a gun.  I think my mind didn't equate such a little boy with a gun so it focused on little boy in a wagon with puppies!  The woman in the hat is probably Kitty.  She was the longtime housekeeper/cook for the Moran's.

A Tribute to the Memory of Mrs. Moran, Oct 1895

Sophia Riley Moran
1851-1895

Dedicated lovingly to her daughters, Fanny and Ida:   ( I find this a bit strange that the author left out her youngest daughter Marion)

"Year after year, with glad content In and out of her home she went, In and out.  Ever for others the skies were clear, Her dear heart carried such loving cheer, Banishing gloom and doubt."

There are some mothers so pure and faultless, some lives so beautifully rounded in their perfect proportions that we thank God that he gave them to the world, though all too soon he claimed them again as his won.  Such was the beautiful life of the wife and mother whom death has so recently torn away from the home of which she was the pride and joy. In all the sweet and tender relationships in life, wife, mother, sister, neighbor, friend and counselor, she was the ideal Christian woman, the "perfect woman nobly planned."  Beautiful in person and character, loving and tender in disposition, how is it possible to paint her life as it really was?  And yet it is engraved in letters of living lights not only on the hearts of those who knew and loved her here, but in the Lamb's Book of Life above.  Can there be any consolation left for those, who, having had the light of her presence here so long, must grope in darkness without it?  Yes!

"Although oft depressed and lonely All our fears are laid aside.  If we but remember only such as these have lived and died."

Even for this, the greatest of all sorrows, the loss of a mother's love and counsel, there is a recompense.  God doth not willingly afflict any of His children, and for every would they receive there is a balm provided.

The life of this beautiful life is not quenched, though it seems to have gone down in its noonday splendor.  It will shine on through all the years to come, a beacon light to guide her loved ones home.  Earth, had she been spared to them might have been more attractive than heaven, but heaven now, with mother and the Saviour beckoning on will prove the happy meeting place of a re-united family.

Mary D. Duval

Clarksville, Tenn., Oct., 25, 1895