[3] Major Littlefield was discharged from the Confederate Army a year later for injuries, and the couple returned to manage his family plantation in Gonzales County.

[2] Lacking children of their own, George and Alice Littlefield became very close to their extended family, and their nieces and nephews were frequent visitors in their home.

"[3] In 1883 Alice and her husband moved to Austin, where Major Littlefield prospered as a banker and business owner.

She organized a local children's home, and joined Austin's Albert Sidney Johnston Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1901.

While in Austin, George Littlefield donated $300,000 to the University of Texas for the creation of a dormitory specifically for freshman women.

George Littlefield wrote that when a doctor advised him to take Alice to a sanitarium, "I told him I would not think of leaving her with strangers, but I would carry her home, so I could look after her and care for her in comfort.

[2] After George Littlefield died of pneumonia in 1920, Alice's nervous condition suddenly and unexpectedly improved.

Now that her husband's safety was no longer a concern, she regained normal mental health and resumed an active social life.

[2] Alice Littlefield died on January 9, 1935, at age 88, and is buried in Austin's Oakwood Cemetery beside her husband.