Robb Little - More Pics



 At Andrea and Victors wedding

He just ate the REAL HOT sauce!

 

Wedding Breakfast

 

Leaving Reno at the airport (Fantastic Four)

 

 

At Sherrie's

 

At Mom's Condo

 

 

 



Colleen Blood Little

Colleen Blood Little

1931 - 2015

Salt Lake City, Utah - Colleen Blood Little was born June 12th 1931 to Ethel and Kenneth Blood in Salt Lake City, Utah. Married Wesley Blaine Little in 1949. Solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple on June 13, 1955.

Colleen loved her family, little dogs Kit and Milly, going to church, working in her garden, Crocheting, reading and Needle Point. She enjoyed traveling with her husband, and later many friends to many destinations. She is preceded in death by her husband, grandson Joshua Webber, parents, two sisters and her brother. She is survived by her sister Karmen Blood Naylor and four children, Michael Blaine Little (Vickie), Charleen Webber (Terry), Sherrie Bratke (David), and Robert Wesley Little, 12 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren.

Memorial service to be held at Cottonwood Ward House 1750 East Spring Lane, Salt Lake City, Utah at 12:00 Noon Tuesday, April 14th.. Friends and Family are invited to pay their respects at a viewing from 11:00 to 12:00. Interment at Murray City Cemetery 5940 South Vine Street, Murray, Utah.

John Linford

 

One of our direct ancestors did not make it to Great Salt Lake City.

John Linford left this world at the Sixth Crossing of the Sweetwater in Wyoming, but his struggle to make it that far with the Willie Handcart Company in 1856 is an honored story insuring that every one of his descendants can be touched, with sorrow and pride. Our sojourn on this earth can be enriched by his story and the stories of his companions.

The Story of John’s family is one of hundreds from the Martin and Willie Handcart Companies that were recorded for posterity. Most of the hundreds of pioneers in these two snowbound handcart companies were rescued from certain peril at the last possible moment by several courageous rescuers. 

You can read many of these stories by following the links in this post.

You can read about this human tragedy and the heartbreaking stories of overcoming unimaginable adversity in “their own words”: 

Here is the James G. Willie Company (1856) page in the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Site. Take some time here and visit often. I am certain you will find gems of great value!

17 Miracles

 

 

One of the first things you may want to do is watch the movie "17 Miracles". It Chronicles much of the story of the two handcart companies that left a month late to cross the plains. As of this writing it is available to watch at no additional charge on Amazon's Prime video. 

Our ancestor John Linford was Grandpa Bloods great grandfather. In the movie, John Linford is the man Levi Savage gave his last portion of grain to before he died on the very morning that the rescuers found the saints.

Grandpa Kenneth Blood's own grandfather, James Henry Linford (son of John) was on a mission at the time and was not with the handcart company. He joined up with his mother and siblings in Salt Lake City 4 1/2 years later, arriving with the Ira Eldredge Company in 1861.

In Remembrance 

 One of the descendants paid for an engraving on a rock near the place where John died...

Cousin David Evans wrote and sings a song about our ancestors trying to get to Zion, called Utah Bloodlines. I think Dave has been singing since he was born. We can't thank Dave enough for all he does!

Family Book

I went over this with Charleen and we thought it a good idea.

Years ago I had this grand illusion of making a semi-yearly booklet on the Blood Family. Well, only one booklet got made. It was just too much work for me at the time so I postponed the idea for a while. 

Now online publishing is easy and economical so we can put some stories of our family into one book and publish it, with pictures, for less than five bucks a copy! This will be a valuable addition to our important books.

So...
We would like each person to submit 2 photos and 2 stories for the book. We would like each descendant, and spouses, of Blaine and Colleen to be represented. Those who are too young, or not with us can have someone else write about them and submit pics. Actually, if you can convince someone else to write your story, then I say go for it!.

The stories can be about anything you choose. We would like at least one of the stories to include all or some of your life story up till the writing. 

More on this later! A special e-mail address will be available for this project. Until then send your stuff to vegasrv@aol.com Also, anyone wishing to help make this happen is more than welcome!

Happy Writing!

Michael

Thomas Bullock - Pioneer - Scribe - Historian

Those of us in the W B Little family are directly related to Thomas Bullock. He was quite a guy.
You can download most of his journal and related article here:

https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/journal-thomas-bullock

https://byustudies.byu.edu/content/introduction-1845-1846-journal-thomas-bullock

You can download the entire issue of this BYU Studies for $7 but these articles are free to download. Check out the column on the lower right. I downloaded the pdf version.

More later, Michael

William Blood Book

 About 1865

All of us in the Blood Family are descendants of William Blood. There are few of these books in the family but now it is available for all to read and download online!
Years ago I read the book, scanned and published chapters online, but now all of us can read the great stories of this man and his family, and own a digital copy of our own. Keep in mind this download is pictures of the pages, not actual digital words. I do have other writings about Wm. Blood I will attach to this post later. In the mean time you can download it at Archive.org.

William Blood: His Posterity and Biographies of their Progenitors.
https://archive.org/details/williambloodhisp00hill

 Jane