His death certificate records Will Little, age 68 years 5 months 8 days, born 27 July 1848 in Kentucky, died 5 Jan 1917 in River precinct, Morgan Co., Kentucky, father Johnie Little, mother’s maiden name Anna Abram, both born in Virginia, cause of death pulmonary tuberculosis, informant Mack Little, White Oak, Ky, burial info blank.

His gravestone, though is on FindaGrave.com. His own memorial gives his name as William Butler Little, but the memorial for his second wife Phoebe Jane Nickell says that she was the wife of William Burns Little.

Morgan Co., Ky marriage records list the marriage on 1 Oct 1871 of William B. Little and Martha A. Cooper, at Samuel Brown’s by H. H. Little, witnesses James Davis and Louise Brown.

They apparently divorced shortly afterwards, because William remarried in May 1872 to Phoebe Nickell, and Martha remarried in Aug 1873 to John Milton Brown. (The witness Louisa Brown is Martha’s sister; she married the other witness James Davis one month after this wedding.)

In 1870 Martha was living with her parents, widowed from her first marriage to William Cooper, and her soon-to-be second husband William Little was also in the household, as a farmhand:

1870 census of Morgan Co., Ky, River precinct, enumerated 7 July, lists on p. 6 as family #40:
Brown, Saml W., farmer, 51; Cyntha A., 50; Daniel B., 20; Angeline, 17; Louisa J., 15; Harvey B., 11; Jeff Davis, 9; Mary E., 5; Cooper, Martha A., 25; Little, William, 21, farm laborer; Higginbotham, Jack, 40, farm laborer. All born in Kentucky.