Personal Life
Littlefield married Alice Payne Tillar on January 14, 1863. They had two children, both of whom died in infancy. As a result, he was very close to his extended family, paying for the college education of all of his many nieces and nephews. He also employed nephews and the husbands of nieces as managers in his many business concerns.
George W. Littlefield died at his home in Austin on November 10, 1920. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Austin next to his wife who survived him by fifteen years. Buried near him on the plot is his lifelong servant Nathan Stokes.
Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943) through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman.
The city of Littlefield, Texas is named after him. He is also the namesake of the local Austin camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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