Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 14 page 1. (106) Charles Wilson The following is from The Family Bible & Records of John Armstrong, subject 6, written by him in 1880. Charles Wilson's birth date is not known: he died Jan 7/1841. He was of Roscommon County, Ireland, and a Lieutenant in the local militia. He married Eleanor Isabella Mullarkey, who a died 1826, daughter of Michael and Eleanor Mullarkey, nee Haughton. Michael was a Justice of the Peace, and was knighted. Issue: 1. John Henry Wilson. lived only nine months. 2. Eleanor Isabella Wilson. Born August 1817, died August 24/1848. She married, as his first wife, on January 20/1840, John Armstrong, born December 29/1820, died at Chicago, Ill. on September 24/1892. See subject 6 for issue and further particulars. 3. Isabella Wilson. Born 1819, died November 22/1852. She lived her whole life in Ireland. She married in 1838, John George Little, born 1800, died October 10/1870 in Ireland. After her death he married, 2nd, Margaret Munns, but had no children by her. Issue :- (by his first wife). 2/1. John Wilson Little, born August 22/1840, who in 1905 lived at Longford, Ireland. He married Mathilda J. Cody. Issue :- 3/1. George Edward Little. Born July 19/1857. Lives in Longford. 3/2. Walter Joseph Little. Born Sept 10/1868. Married Eva Turner. 3/3. John Armstrong Little. Born June 24/---- Lives in New Zealand. 3/4. Herbert Wilson Little. Born March 7/1878. Lived in Canada in 1905. 3/5. Jane Isabella Little. Born Feb 24/ 1888. Lives in Longford 1905. In 1905, 1, (H.A.P.) went to Ireland and visited the above family in Longford: I quote from a letter I wrote home telling of this visit. Longford, Ireland, July 29/1905. I came down from Belfast by the 8 A.M. train on a fine clear day: for 31/2 hours the train kept going fairly well and we passed through the greenest and most unpopulated place I had ever seen. We finally reached Cavan, the terminus of the railway from Belfast: while waiting far the connecting train to Longford, I walked into the village to get lunch, past a smeIly streamlet and small houses; the only thing - which was clean, was the whitewash. Caven boasts of three streets and three hotels: the Farnhan Arms looked the best and the food was fair. At 5 p.m. I caught the train for Longford, 1 1/2 hours run: we passed long stretches of peat bog, with the peat cut and stacked up for the winter's use. The passengers were a dirty drunken lot, and I had a hard time dodging swigs from their whisksey bottles. Arriving at Longford, on walking across the tracks, a cheerful face turned into smiles and said "I'm sure you belong to the Armstrong family", and I recognised Mr Little senior, a man much older than cousin Tom, The old gentleman was as kind and pleasant as if I had been a long lost son, he handed my bags to a man, telling him to take them to his house: he told me I was to stop with them. Its only a big village and I, being from Japan, was the curiosity of the place. I soon saw how remarkably like Grandma, Mr Little is: he has an identical voice and pronunciation and laughs like her. The houses were all either plaster finished or rough stone and brick, whitewashed. The streets are never cleaned and all the shops are small and dirty. Every few steps, some acquaintance would stop and ask if this was the expected cousin from Japan, it was great fun and Mr Little got such pleasure out of it. I didn't know what his business was, but he soon said "here we are" and I found myself Subject 14 P2 (107) outside & Draper shop with a big placard with red letters reading "Great Bargain Sale &c". Its a regular country draper's store, with a little of everything in it. The shop was shut and we went around to the back, down a cow alley and into a low door. A year ago they were burned out and the new building isn't quite finished yet, a big 15 roomed building besides the shop on the ground floor. With all the usual Irish failings the Littles are a most hospitable and pleasant crowd and I had an unparalled welcome. Little's wife is dead and he has three sons and a daughter here:- another son is in Canada. He had invited to meet me, a nephew Cody from New York and a cousin of his daughter's from Dublin, Nellie Leahy, so when we had crawled up unfinished and unpainted stairs, I had to meet a battery of kindly but critical eyes. The eldest son George is about 38 and is a funny gawky looking chap but canny as they make them. Then Jack, about 34, married: his wife was not here nor his four kids. Next Walter, also married who I only saw that once, s he went off for to weekend with his wife. Then comes the only daughter Jennie, 17 years old, with her hair down yet, a quiet sweet girl who treats her farther nicely and always thinks of others' comforts. Nelly Leahy was a fair haired pert girl, with the sweetest way of speaking and accent. They had all finished dinner by the time I arrived, but they put a grand beefsteak before me. They had been, five years in Australia and have another son in South Africa. Little is retired now, his sons looking after the business: they must be well off but they don't spend much money. They lost œ2000 in the fire, uninsured, of course. Little was full of anecdotes about Mother, and told me much of her visit here in 1869: he couldn't say enough as to what a beautiful and accomplished girl she was. Jennie does most of the work with a fat old Sarah to help her cook and do the hard work, but I think its hard on her as they could easily afford more servants. Everything is a curious Irish mixture of plenty of money and dirt, and luxury and discomfort. Baths and sanitary arrangements are on a soldier's camp basis, and the back yard full of old cans, boxes, cows and muck. The property has a street frontage of 100 ft and goes back for over a quarter of a mile. The next day the boys suggested that we go to the Lenabane Races for this is the great meeting of Roscommon, 18 miles way. We bicycled out and back after a good breakfast. The tablecloth stays on all day. The people we passed on the road called out 'God bless you". Lots of beggars in the streets, old women, bare foot and hardly able to walk. The Race track was only marked with stones every ten feet, and was a bare spot in the peat bog. There were only six races, small fields, and no surprises, but great fun. The side shows on the grass were typical and the crowd an unending source of entertainment, I can hardly understand some of them, their brogue is so thick. Little insisted on taking me to Leitrim, so with a piece of cake in his pocket, we caught the 6 A.M. train, and on arriving at the station of Carrick-on-Shannon, hired a Jaunting car to Leitrim, some 2 miles away. Got there at 10 and we couldn't find Holly Park. A man named Padden nearby with a pretty daughter, who gave me two glasses of delicious cold milk, offered to lead us to Holly Park: he remembered the Wilsons, Goodfellows, &c. He brought us to Holly Park which is just the same, in size as it was before, though not a vestige remains of mother`s old house: nothing but a hay field now. It runs right Subject 14 P3 (108) from the lane, down to the River Shannon. Goodfellow's house is still there. A man named Marmaduke Church owns the whole place now. What a tiny village Leitrim is, only one street and poor as possible. I wonder if Mother ran around the village barefoot, as I saw the girls doing: if she did, I hope her face was cleaner. We drove on to Boyle, where Jack Little's place is and lunched at their house with his wizened wife and a lovely red headed daughter Elsie, twelve years old. Next day at Longford, was market day, everyone within a radius or 20 miles coming in with hay, cattle, sheep, dairy produce &c for sale: the village street was alive with all kinds of cows and calves running loose chased by good sheep dogs. It was a weird sight and the variety of donkey carts and other country rigs was a show by itself. After selling their stuff the farmers make the round of the shops, buying what they want, so Saturday is the Littles' busy day: they keep open till 11 p.m. They have about 11 assistants in the shop, dressmakers, etc. Little has to board his help, feed and clothe then too, in the back part of the shop on the ground floor. I left next for Dublin and after seeing the town, which is better than Belfast, boarded the ferry for Liverpool end sailed at 8 pm. 2/2. Ellen Isabella Little. Born February 10/1843. She married William Bridgeman Harlow, born November 17/1834, died August 28/1897 in Dunedin, New Zealand, where Ellen now lives (1906). Issue 3/1. George Arthur Harlow. Born August 27/1865. Has 1 son Arthur Harlow 3/2. Elizabeth Margaret Harlow, Born Feb 25/1868. Never married. 3/3. Isabella Mary Harlow. Born Oct 20/1869. 1 son 2 daughters. 3/4. Ellen Georgina Harlow. Born June 11/1871. Never married. 3/5. John Little Harlow. Born May 29/1873. Never married. 3/6. Wilhelmina Harlow. Born April 11/1875. 3/7. William Bridgeman Harlow Born Sept 25/1880. Lives in Dunedin, N.Z. 3/8. Mary Little Harlow. Born Sept 9/1888. On July 22/1906, I (H.A.P.) received a letter from William Bridgeman Harlow, saying that most of his family are now living in Dunedin, at No 22 Cargill St, and that they only recently moved there from Maori Hill, where they had resided for 26 years. Elizabeth Margaret has long been proprietress of a large fancy goods shop, with rooms for hairdressing, face massage and manicuring, with a branch at Christchurch, managed by her youngest sister Mary Little Harlow. Wilhelmina was until 1905, mistress of a large school at Dunedin, but had to give it up on account of an infection of the throat, and now helps in Elizabeth's shop, with ten other young ladies. Ellen Georgina is the housekeeper for all the Harlow family in Dunedin. Isabella Mary married Frank Wright, born 1866, died October 24/1937. He was born at Naseby, Central Otego, N, Z.. He founded Fairbairn Wright & Co at Dunedin, and retired in 1913. She lives in a suburb called Roslyn. Wright & Co are large indentors, having branches in Wellington and Christchurch. George Arthur also lives In Roslyn and is accountant in the office of HF Wheeler Ltd, Mining & manufacturing agents . John Little Harlow is employed by Laidlaw & Gray, hardware. 2/3. Fanny Little, died in infancy. 2/4. Tom Kirkwood Little. Born October 26/1850. He was brought over from Ireland by John Armstrong and worked many years in J.V.Farwell & Co, Textile merchants in Chicago (see subject 6). He married Minnie Holliker at Ottawa, Ill, and had one daughter Annabel, who Subject 14 P3 (108) married in 1914, name unknown to me. Tom lives in Caldwell, Idaho, where he had a Wholesale Drygoods shop. I believe they had other children whose names I do not have. 2/5. Joseph B. Little. Born October 28/1848. Married Fanny McGill. 2/6. Charles K. Little. Born October 26/1852. 1/4. Mary Wilson. Born 1821, died March 10/1876 in Arcola, Ill, and is buried at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. She married, 1st, her cousin Launcelot Vaugh of Sligo County, Ireland. They were brought over from Ireland to Chicago by John Armstrong. After her husband's death she married, 2nd, John Stewart and went out to Australia. Many years later, after his death, she returned to Arcola and lived with John Armstrong's family. No children by her second husband. Issue: 2/1. Isabelle Vaugh. Born 1843, died 1854. 2/2. Christiana Vaugh. Born December 25/1849 in Ireland, died June 21/1897 in Chicago. She married on July 19/1873 in Arcola, James P. Slater, born March 26/1843 in Edinburgh, Scotland, died September 10/1916 in Chicago of heart failure. Issue : 3/1. John Wesley Slater. Born September 6/1876 in Chicago, died June 28/1933 in the Great Lakes Hospital, North Chicago. He was a Spanish American War Veteran. He married, 1st. about 1900, Jeanette May Osborne, who was an actress, but the marriage didn`t take, and they were divorced. Shortly after, John went to Lansing, Michigan, where he had a fine position as auditor for the Michigan United Railways, holding this position until he became ill. Soon after arriving in Lansing he married in 1907 Ethel King. His firm then moved its offices to Jackson Michigan, and their daughter was born there. Again the firm moved to Detroit. Issue:- (by his second wife) 4/1. Avis Irene Slater, born October 28/1911 in Jackson and married in Detroit in 1934, Lloyd Beemer, a druggist. They moved to Port Huron, Michigan. Issue:- 5/1. Barbara Avis Beemer, born in Port Huron May 12/1937. 3/2. Mary Isabella Slater. Born January 19/1879 in Chicago. She lives with her sister Martha Barnett at 1616 North 3rd St, St Joseph, Missouri. She married on November 12/1903, Thomas B. Fidler, born in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky on December 25/1881. They were divorced in June 1906: he died August 26/1936. No children. Mary secured a position as front office clerk at the old Great Northern Hotel, one of Chicago`s fine hotels in those days and did very well for a number of years. She married 2nd, Fred S. Merchant, born October 4/1872, died April 13/1937. No children by her second marriage. They married on March 14/1921. 3/3. James Garfield Slater, born October 5/1880 in Chicago, died September 1/1936. He married, 1st, in South Haven, Michigan, Abbie Matters of Aurora, Ill. The marriage was an elopement, and like most elopements did not last. James came to live in Kansas City with his sister Martha, and was with the Santa Fe Railway for about 22 years, running out of Kansas City. He married there, 2nd, Mildred Johnston at Holton, Kansas in 1923. No children by either wife. 3/4. Martha (Mattie) Irene Slater. Born May 30/1882 in Chicago. Subject 14 P5 (110) She married, 1st, on January 28/1908 in Chicago, Eugene C. Farmer born December 16/1881 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They were divorced in 1922. No children. After the divorce Martha secured a position as drug clerk in the Fred Harvey Drug Store, located in The Union Station in Kansas City, and remained there eight years, when she married, 2nd, in Chicago on December 24/l929, Charles Barnett, born April 17/1869. No children. They live at 1616 North 3rd St, St Joseph, Missouri. 2/3. Haughton Vaugh. Born 1852, He went insane and died in a Sanatorium in Topeka, Kansas. Never married. 1/5. Henrietta Wilson. Born January 6/1826, died April 18/1914. She married on October 22/1849, John Armstrong, as his second wife, his first wife having been Henrietta's elder sister, Eleanor Isabella, who died April 24/1845 after eight years of married life. See subject 6 for further details and issue.