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Pioneer Cemetery - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2107), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2107. Sexton's book for the cemetery, recording interments of both whites and African Americans from 1860-1863. Most entries state name, date of death, sex, age at death, and cause of death. A typescript is included, together with notes on the genealogy of the book owner's family.

Procter Family (Sc 2077), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2077. Genealogical notes and correspondence relating to the Procter, Carson and Dinwiddie families. Includes a certified copy of the will of Evan Shelby, father of Isaac Shelby, the first governor of Kentucky.

Howell Family - Bible Records, 1789-1936 (Sc 2060), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2060. Genealogical records removed from three family Bibles. The information includes births, deaths and marriages related to the Howell family chiefly of Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes a marriage certificate for Charlie Howell and Maud Howell married on 31 December 1912.

Greenwood Cemetery - Adairville, Kentucky (Sc 2022), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2022. Listing of the individuals buried in the Greenwood Cemetery at Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky; includes index.

Zoar Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 245), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 245. Record books of Zoar Baptist Church, Allen County, Kentucky. Entries consist chiefly of church and Sunday school minutes.

Sumpter, Irene Malone (Moss), 1902-1996 (Mss 273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 273. Genealogical research material compiled by Mrs. Sumpter and her husband, Ward Cullin Sumpter. The focus of the collection is on their ancestral families, particularly the Morgan, Moss, Sumpter and Ward families.

Gerard, John Claude, 1816-1899 (Sc 2027), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2027. Business papers relating to John Claude Gerard and his Bowling Green, Kentucky cabinetmaking and undertaking establishment. Includes receipts for purchases of lumber and other goods and services, business licenses and Gerard family genealogical information.

Gerard, Martha Jane (Buchanan), 1869-1962 (Sc 2008), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2008. Correspondence and genealogical material relating to an alleged inheritance from the estate of William Buchanan, a cousin of President James Buchanan. Includes a press statement to claimants issued by New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt that the estate was fictitious and pursuing claims would be fruitless.

Lawrence Family (Sc 1956), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1956. Leather bound notebook, 1812-1819, letters and receipts of Lawrence family members in Kentucky, Texas, Kansas, and Missouri; includes genealogical information; also estate records for Levi Lawrence who died in Warren County, Kentucky in 1957.

Stickles, Arndt Mathis, 1872-1968 (Mss 209), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Correspondence, both personal and professional, as well as research material related to books and articles published by Stickles, a native of Indiana and a history professor at Western Kentucky University from 1908 to 1954. His most popular book was "Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight."

Adams, George Blakey, 1911-1985 (Sc 1691), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1691. Jacob and Martha Van Meter's 1874 obituary and description of their joint funeral. Also, 8 February 1913 letter to George Blakey Adams, San Diego, California, from his aunt Lue M. Adams related to their Logan County, Kentucky ancestor George Blakey.

Sullivan Family Collection (Mss 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 267. Correspondence and clippings relating to home economics extension agents Rowena I. Sullivan and Margaret (Sullivan) Berg. Includes genealogical information relating to the Sullivan and Rogers families.

Witten, Tempie Jane (Bell), 1901-1985 (Mss 261), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 261. Correspondence, chiefly genealogical related; family files; research materials about Grayson County, Kentucky schools, churches, businesses, history, and personalities. Also includes items related to Witten's long career as a teacher in Grayson County schools.

Watson, Robert Clark, 1914-1987 (Sc 1940), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1940. "History of the Watson Family" by Robert Clark Watson; also relates some local history of Summer Shade, Metcalfe County, Kentucky.

Law, Robert Cornwell, B. 1937 (Sc 1894), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1894. Genealogical material compiled by Robert C. Law related to the Helm family; also includes Bible records for the Carson and McAllister families and information about the McReynolds Cemetery in Christian County, Kentucky.

Temple, Alvis Howard, 1904-1992 (Sc 2207), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2207. Biographical and genealogical material collected by Alvis Howard Temple, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in his efforts to join the Sons of the American Revolution. His SAR application was approved in 1976.

Hobson Family Papers (Mss 121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 121. Correspondence, legal papers, and news clippings about the Hobsons, a prominent family of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The correspondence and reminiscences of Civil War veteran William E. Hobson; a diary kept by Mary Elizabeth Van Meter during the evacuation of Bowling Green, 1861; and correspondence of George Anna (Hobson) Duncan, an award winning trapshooter, are of particular significance. Also includes genealogical information about the Hobson and related families.

Hamilton, Andrew Graff, 1835-1895 (Sc 1858), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1858. Information, chiefly published items, related to Hamilton's role in the escape of Union prisoners from Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia in 1864. Also, details concerning his 1895 death.

Brashear Family Papers (Sc 91), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 91. Letter, 6 September 1830, written by Camilla L. Brashear, Port Gibson, Mississippi, to her sister, Sarah F. Brashear, Russellville, Kentucky, containing family news, 1830; two poems, 1829; and genealogical information about the Brashear family.

Moorman, Clifford (Sc 76), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 76. Letter written by Clifford Moorman, Hillsboro, Texas, to a relative, Miss Annie Kennerly, Lewisburg, Kentucky, which contains chiefly Moorman family genealogical information.

Kirby, John Quincy, 1875-1957 - Letters To (Sc 78), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 78. Letters, 2 and 14 November 1930, written to J. Quince Kirby, Bowling Green, Kentucky, one by Joe S. Kirby, the other by “Joda” Kirby. The letters relate genealogical information about the Boone and Kirby families.

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