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MSS Finding Aids

2008

Tennessee

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Underwood, Johanna Louisa, 1840-1923 (Sc 1722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Underwood, Johanna Louisa, 1840-1923 (Sc 1722), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1722. Diary kept 10 December 1860 to 8 September 1862 by Johanna "Josie" Louisa Underwood, eldest daughter of a prominent pro-Union family in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She vividly records her thoughts and activities about Bowling Green's occupation by Confederate troops, the harassment of her family, strained friendships, and the destruction of her home.


Whitehead, Thomas D., 1832-1872 (Sc 1707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Whitehead, Thomas D., 1832-1872 (Sc 1707), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1707. Diary kept by Thomas D. Whitehead, 9th Tennessee Cavalry, from 29 November 1862 to 12 October 1863 while traveling with his company to Port Hudson, Louisiana then back home to Wayne County, Tennessee. He comments on camp life, the weather, his own failing health, and his hopes for peace.


Howard, William Barnett, 1837?-1863 (Sc 1668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2008

Howard, William Barnett, 1837?-1863 (Sc 1668), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1668. Letters from William Barnett Howard, serving with the 3rd Kentucky Regiment (C.S.A.) in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Mississippi to his family in Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky. He provides a private's observations of daily camp life. Includes correspondence related to the letters and associated data.


Hobday Collection, 1895-1991 (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2008

Hobday Collection, 1895-1991 (Mss 85), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 85. Genealogical materials revolving chiefly around the Hobday family of Tennessee and Kentucky as researched and collected by Bob Law, Nashville, Tennessee.


Griffin, Samuel Allen, 1892-1979 (Mss 208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Griffin, Samuel Allen, 1892-1979 (Mss 208), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 208. Collection includes two memoirs related to the boyhood of Samuel Allen Griffin in Sumner County, Tennessee and his railroad career: "A Country Boy" and "My 50 Years Service with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company." Also, a magazine article about Griffin.


Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Mss 48), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2008

Ellis, Courtney M., 1888-1964 (Mss 48), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and several representative photographs for Manuscripts Collection 48. Photographs and informational material collected by Courtney M. Ellis relating to steamboats which operated in the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, including correspondence with other collectors and steamboatsmen, and publications of steamboating. To see a copy of "History of Steamer, J.C. Kerr, Chaperone, Choctaw" click on "Additional Files."


Hines Family Collection (Mss 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Hines Family Collection (Mss 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 91. War of 1812 letters, 1814-1815 (3), written by James Hines to his wife, also deeds and will; John Hines papers pertaining to selling and employing slaves, 1823-1840 (3); and correspondence, etc., 1856-1879 (27) of John Henry Hines, from Johnson's Island, an Ohio prisoner of war camp. The Hines family migrated from Virginia to Bowling Green, Kentucky. Various other family items are in the collection.


Williams, Henry (Sc 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Williams, Henry (Sc 25), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 25. Statement from Williams, Montgomery County, Tennessee, to Garnett & Lampton, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, for keeping pack and stage horses on the stage line from Hopkinsville to Nashville, Tennessee, and for boarding the driver and packer from January 1, 1836 to January 31, 1837.


Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Lafferty, John Aker, 1832-1905 (Sc 1617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1617. Civil War reminiscences of John Aker Lafferty, Harrison County, Kentucky, recounted in 1905 to his son W.T. Lafferty. John A. Lafferty served with the 1st Kentucky Cavalry and later with the 9th Kentucky Cavalry. W.T. Lafferty adds an account of his family's lives as Confederate sympathizers in Harrison County during the war.


Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 1592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 1592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1592. Typescript of the membership list and minutes of congregational meetings from 30 August 1831 to 17 October 1852, for the Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church located in Sumner County, Tennessee. The papers also contain a "Family Record" in which births, baptisms, marriages, and beginning/ending church membership dates are registered.


Dearmin, Robert Allen, 1836-1926 (Sc 1561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Dearmin, Robert Allen, 1836-1926 (Sc 1561), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text of diary (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 1561. Civil War diary, 1861-1864, of Robert Allen Dearmin. He served with the 2nd Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, which saw service in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Also includes correspondence of the Dearmin and Lowry families. Associated data about the collection included.


Hess, Nelson Irvin, 1795-1869 (Sc 1451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Hess, Nelson Irvin, 1795-1869 (Sc 1451), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1451. Bond given by N. I. Hess, Cumberland Presbyterian minister, and L.B. Gilchrist, both of Gibson County, Tennessee, to secure a judgment obtained against Hess by Watt Renick, Hickman County, Kentucky. The bond requires the obligors to deliver four enslaved persons, the property of Hess, to be sold to satisfy the judgment.


Ferguson, Champ, 1821-1865 (Mss 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Ferguson, Champ, 1821-1865 (Mss 1), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 1. An account of Ferguson's military trial for murders committed during the Civil War by him and his band of outlaws, held at Nashville, Tennessee. Transcript compiled from official records by Frank R. McGlasson, U.S. Army surgeon.