


Little moved to Florida to live with his mother in his late 20s, working at various times as a cemetery worker and an ambulance attendant (by his own account). In 1956, after being convicted of breaking and entering into property in Omaha, Nebraska, Little was held in an institution for juvenile offenders. He attended Hawthorne Junior High School, where he had problems with discipline and achievement.

Soon after his birth, Little's family moved to Lorain, Ohio, where he was brought up mainly by his grandmother. Samuel Little was born on June 7, 1940, in Reynolds, Georgia, to a mother he claimed was a prostitute.
