Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 14
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worked like a man burning off trees etc, to help make a home, like the women folk at Rosedale also did.
The old hands told me that William Little was a very fine man, he never lost his block, & when the Station bullock team used to get a bit tangled up, he used to sit on a log, light his pipe & say "they will right themselves directly", & they did.
He was only once seen to be going in a hurry at a hard gallop along the road near KOLONGA, he met someone who asked him what was the hurry, & he said the old man (his father) had got a bit of a squeegee (sic), & he was going for Dr SEWELL. The "bit of a squeege" was a tree that he had burnt down, had fallen on him, & he was dead before the doctor got to Rosedale. His tombstone is on the side of a ? near the old homestead. Another Station owner Mr Walsh? WALSH of MONDURAN was not so easy going & got stuck in a ?bwith his dray, & he got to the bullocks good & well, &!got them going, & kept them going,