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, men. 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 given in the official records and on his tomb.
Source: History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography By Thomas McAdory Owen
LUDIKE, William P. was born in Savannah, Ga., July 30,1841. His parents were Conrad and
Sarah H. (Leonard) Ludike, the former a native of Germany, and the latter of Tennessee. Both
died so many years ago as not to be remembered by the subject of this sketch.
William P. Ludike was reared by an uncle, and educated at the schools of Macon, Ga. In the
Ochmulgee Foundry, at Macon, he learned the trade of machinist, and followed it at various
places up to 1862. He became a locomotive engineer in that year, and followed the business up to
1882. During the last twelve years of that time he ran the train between Florence and Tuscumbia, discharging the duties of both conductor and
engineer, and was the express company's messenger, in charge of their business over the Florence
branch, during that same period, he was appointed agent of the Southern Express Company,
and took charge of their office at Florence in 1882. To this he has since given his attention. He is an
active business man, and is identified more or less with the modern progress of Florence.
Northern Alabama Historical & Biographical by T.A. DeLand and A. Davis Smith 1888 Birmingham AL
