Barbara Little is mentioned in Matt Clinton's TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA, ITS EARLY DAYS 1816-1865 on page 95: "The County Court House was located at the intersection of Greensboro Avenue and Sixth Street, where the Alston Building is now. Across Sixth Street from the court house was a boarding house. On the corner south of the court house was the residence of Dr. John Little. In a room attached to the house, his wife, Mrs. Barbara Little, conducted a primary school. Later the school was moved one block east and had four rooms. With Mrs. Little was associated her niece, Miss Mary Irving. James R. Maxwell says of this school: 'It is safe to say that all Tuscaloosa children, born between 1842 and 1858, passed through this primary school, under the tuition of these two Christian women.' Here the small boys and girls of the town wrote on their slates, learned to spell from the BLUE-BACK SPELLER, recited Bible verses, and sang their multiplication tables."