Anse Littlejohn was Levi Hooper’s great-great-grandfather on his mother’s side. Anse was the patriarch of a family of ner-do-wells. His son George, however, fell in love with Emily Langford, one of the children from a church going family. When George and Emily married these two families merged, softening the Littlejohns but also undercutting the piety of the Langfords.
