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Mcgready, James, 1758-1817 (Sc 370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcgready, James, 1758-1817 (Sc 370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 370. Letters (2), Henderson County, Kentucky, to Archibald Cameron, Shelby County, Kentucky. Concerns matters relative to the Presbyterian Church of which they were ministers and especially discusses the influence of Shakerism in Logan County, Kentucky.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 362. Instructions of the church (1), 1844; miscellaneous receipts (4), 1870-1896; newspaper wrapper (1), 1896; weather record for December, 1896; record of illness of Annie Ingram, 1910; and Shaker hymn, n.d.
Shakers (Sc 358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers (Sc 358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 358. Typed copy of letter written by Urban E. Johns, South Union, Kentucky, to Honorable McLean, Washington, D.C., regarding sheep husbandry in Logan County and South Union; a hymn (with words and music); reward certificates given to deserving pupils by teachers; and a list of members of the Brick House and the Square House, Union Village, Ohio, during the 1837-1867 period.
Shakers - South Union, Ky. (Sc 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Ky. (Sc 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 357. Holographic letters, 1893-1922 (3); words (2) and words and music to Shaker hymns (3); receipts, n.d. (3); and notes about the Shakers compiled by Pauline Smith for a speech about the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky.
Shakers (Sc 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers (Sc 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 356. Letters, 1834-1851 (6), of the Shakers, chiefly of South Union, Kentucky, concerning the seed industry, religious affairs, economic conditions, wagon blueprint, etc., and receipts, 1868, 1870 (2).
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Hymns (Sc 177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Hymns (Sc 177), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 177. Manuscript hymn book and instructional manual used by the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky. Includes copied portions of Isaac N. Youngs' "Rules of Music."
Macy, Jethro (Sc 223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Macy, Jethro (Sc 223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 223. Copy of portion of a diary kept by Macy from 8 November 1847 to 2 November 1848 chiefly while residing with the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky. He engaged in carpentry work and tending cattle before moving to Newburgh, Indiana, 25 July 1848. Includes 1961 letter related to the diary.
Morrell, Prudence, 1794-1855 (Sc 2231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Morrell, Prudence, 1794-1855 (Sc 2231), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2231. Travel journal kept by Shaker Prudence Morrell on a trip from New Lebanon, New York, to eight Shaker communities in New York, Ohio, and Kentucky from May 18 to October 23, 1847. The original journal is owned by the Shaker Library at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.
Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), B. 1941 (Sc 2142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), B. 1941 (Sc 2142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2142. Typed biography titled "Julia Neal," which discusses the professional career of Mary Julia Neal (7 p.); two oral interviews with Neal conducted by Watkins which discuss Neal's career and particularly her work related to the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky; photocopy of Neal's first article on the South Union Shakers in 1926 also included.
Middleswarth, Victoria (Sc 2129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Middleswarth, Victoria (Sc 2129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2129. Abridged index compiled from Shaker Record A, 1804-1836; Shaker Record B, 1836-1864; and Journal of the North and East Families, 1888-1897, for a "Lunchtime Learning" program about Shaker food held at the Kentucky Library & Museum, Western Kentucky University.
Tackett, Kenneth Wayne, 1930-2016 (Sc 2083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tackett, Kenneth Wayne, 1930-2016 (Sc 2083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2083. Correspondence related to an article about Shakers that appeared in the Western Kentucky University "Alumni" magazine. Kenneth W. Tackett was born at Shakertown at South Union, Kentucky, and later lived in the Centre House (Centre Family Dwelling).
Leach, Rebecca - Compiler (Sc 1839), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Leach, Rebecca - Compiler (Sc 1839), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1839. Research on the departure and readmission of members at the South Union, Kentucky Shaker community, 1812-1892. Some material was copied from journals kept by Harvey Lauderdale Eades. People with multiple admissions were often referred to as "Winter Shakers."
Cowan, Jane, 1829-1909 (Sc 75), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cowan, Jane, 1829-1909 (Sc 75), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 75. Postcard written by Jane Cowan, South Union, Kentucky, to Alex Duvall, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in which she expresses her thanks for some magazines he has sent to her.
Sanders, Nolan (Sc 1798), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sanders, Nolan (Sc 1798), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1798. Paper: "South Union: Their Business and Life in the 1870s" written by Nolan Sanders for a Western Kentucky University history class.
Hutchings, Noah J., B. 1840 (Sc 1766), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hutchings, Noah J., B. 1840 (Sc 1766), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1766. Noah J. Hutchings's membership agreement with the Shaker community at South Union, Kentucky, 18 February 1867; poems written by Hutchings; unsigned poem, "To Nancy Clark," about a Shaker sister; typescript of 20 May 1866 letter to Hutchings from Noah Anderson Hutchings; letter from Harold E. Hutchings, 21 November 1982, related to Noah J. Hutchings, his grandfather.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Correspondence, speeches, and writings of Shaker scholar and English professor, Mary Julia Neal, a native of Auburn, Kentucky. Neal served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1964 to 1972. Includes photos and correspondence with twentieth century eastern Shakers.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1393. Journal kept by Jane Cowan from 1900 to 1903, with additional entries from 1919-1921 by other members, detailing the daily activities of the Center Family. Includes materials relating to the disbandment of the South Union Society.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 1394), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1394. Graveyard book containing names of Shaker members who died between 1811 and 1881. Short biographies are provided for some of the prominent men.
Chambliss Collection (Mss 152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Chambliss Collection (Mss 152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 152. Collection includes memoirs of Issachar Bates; Shaker letters; correspondence of Emma B. Chambliss; prescriptions and remedies; newspaper clippings; and miscellaneous items.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 154. Shaker materials related to Jesse McCombs and James Johnson including slavery documents, guardianship documents, legal papers, land papers, grist and fulling mill papers, wills, agreements and receipts.
Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Coke, William Gaston, 1895-1977 - Collector (Mss 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 143. Shaker journal, 1891-1893 (184p.) kept by James Carr, South Union, Kentucky, giving daily activities within the Shaker community. Includes hymnals, 1836-1856 (9), compiled by Shaker society members. A name index is available.
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Sc 1333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reed, Sheryl Diane (Sc 1333), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1333. Paper written by WKU student Sheryl D. Reed about Mary Julia Neal, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Neal had a lifelong interest in the South Union Shaker Society located in Logan County, Kentucky. She was director of the Kentucky Library on the campus of Western Kentucky University for a number of years.
Pearce, James Anderson, 1777-1825 (Sc 1365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pearce, James Anderson, 1777-1825 (Sc 1365), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1365. Letter, 6 August 1813, written by James A. Pearce, Louisville, Kentucky, to Armistead Morehead, Russellville, Kentucky, regarding land that Pearce had sold to the South Union Shaker Society in Logan County, Kentucky. Also data from Shaker Record "A" and a local history about this transaction.