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Graven Family Papers (Sc 3671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Graven Family Papers (Sc 3671), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3671. Records relating to the Boyd, Upton, Graven and Leslie families of Hart, Larue, and Monroe counties in Kentucky. Includes church minutes, tax receipts, marriage bond, family reminiscences, clippings, and a genealogy tracing the Upton family back to the Powhatan Nation of Virginia. Also includes photographs of the dedication of a new grave marker for War of 1812 veteran James Boyd.
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 736. Photocopied correspondence of Brigadier General Edward H. Hobson of Greensburg, Kentucky. Letters from his family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, fellow soldiers, colleagues and citizens of Greensburg cover his Mexican War and Civil War service, his business ventures, and attempts to win political office. Includes Hobson's memoranda of actions against Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan in 1864, a list of prisoners taken from Morgan's and other brigades, and a letter from Hobson's nephew deploring an 1892 lynching in Bowling Green, Kentucky (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Monroe, Thomas B. And Benjamin F. Pleasants (Lg 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Monroe, Thomas B. And Benjamin F. Pleasants (Lg 468), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding and and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 468. Original land grant, 21 February 1820, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Thomas B. Monroe and Benjamin F. Pleasants 275 acres in Barren County, Kentucky.
Bushong, George (Lg 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bushong, George (Lg 467), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 467. Original land grant, 6 December 1832, by which John Breathitt, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to George Bushong 250 acres in Barren County, Kentucky.
Us 31e Heritage Corridor (Mss 727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Us 31e Heritage Corridor (Mss 727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 727. US 31E Heritage Corridor Resource Inventory, 21 March 2003, a report on historic resources in nine counties in Kentucky and Tennessee, prepared as part of a grant-funded project to identify sites along US 31E (the “Jackson Turnpike”) for heritage tourism. Also includes a proposal to develop an agricultural and recreational site on Green River Lake in Taylor County, Kentucky.
Patterson, Roland, 1872-1935 (Sc 3524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Patterson, Roland, 1872-1935 (Sc 3524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text typescript (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3524. Letter to his parents, 22 July 1899, from Roland Patterson, teaching school and boarding with the Gerald family in Jennie, Barren County, Kentucky. His contemplative letter, written while sitting up with the family’s young son who is recovering from malaria, describes the family, his quiet surroundings, and opening his school.
Covington-Reynolds Family Papers (Mss 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Covington-Reynolds Family Papers (Mss 677), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 677. Chiefly courtship letters written by Edward Daniel Covington while teaching high school industrial arts classes at St. Petersburg High School in Florida to his girlfriend and future wife, Evelyn Reynolds, Cave City, Kentucky. The 1933 letters mention the financial effects of the Great Depression and the difficulty of paying teachers.
Account Books - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Account Books - Barren County, Kentucky (Mss 666), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 666. Two account books for mercantile establishments in Barren County, Kentucky. One, 1832-1833, contains accounts for what is believed to be a general store. The other, 1902-1903, is believed to be an account book for the South Kentucky Oil Company which was selling items such as coal, kerosene, cement, and other oil field products.
Reynolds, William Russell, Jr., 1878-1955 (Mss 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Reynolds, William Russell, Jr., 1878-1955 (Mss 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 656. Collection of daybooks with daily entries of financial transactions for the Reynolds Brothers Store in Cave City, Kentucky. Books include daily sales at the store and include the purchaser’s name, items purchased and their prices.
Bridges - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 3308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bridges - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 3308), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3308. Specifications, including sketches, for the construction of a bridge across Skaggs Creek in Barren County, Kentucky. The detailed specifications as to design, dimensions, materials, and method of construction were prepared by a commission appointed by the Barren County Court. Unable to secure a bid to erect the bridge for the appropriated sum of $1,000, the commission recommended an additional appropriation in order to accept a bid of $1,200.
Whitlow Family - Bible Records (Sc 3285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitlow Family - Bible Records (Sc 3285), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3285. Genealogical pages removed from the Whitlow family Bible. The Whitlows were chiefly located in Barren and Warren counties in south central Kentucky. Includes auxiliary genealogical information related to the family.
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Mss 636), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 636. Correspondence and papers of Margie Helm, Auburn, Kentucky native and longtime Western Kentucky University head librarian, relating principally to her work for the Presbyterian Church. Also includes materials documenting her service on the Inter-Racial Commission of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Gillan, Robert Lee, 1916-2009 (Sc 3183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gillan, Robert Lee, 1916-2009 (Sc 3183), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3183. Letter, 7 August 2006, of Robert Lee Gillan, Thorntown, Indiana, to Martha Harrison. He refers to his interest in genealogy and relates anecdotes about “Aunt Nancy,” an African American woman and caregiver to local families in Barren County, Kentucky. He includes particulars of some of her household advice, folk medicinal treatments and beliefs. He notes that she is buried in Lyons (Lyon) Cemetery.
Johnson, James (Lg 462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Johnson, James (Lg 462), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid for and full scan of (Click on "Additional Files" below) of Land Grant 462, 2 December 1808, by which Charles Scott, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to James Johnson 100 acres in Barren County, Kentucky.
Woodcock, Greene B., 1814-1889 (Sc 3120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woodcock, Greene B., 1814-1889 (Sc 3120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3120. Legal and financial records, chiefly related to land holdings, of Greene B. Woodcock, of Allen County and later Warren County, Kentucky. Also includes information about the marriage of his daughter Sarah E. Woodcock to Fountain G. Mitchell of Allen County and their son William H. Mitchell.
Cook, George Washington 1865-1928 (Sc 3072), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cook, George Washington 1865-1928 (Sc 3072), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3072. Article of agreement allowing G.W. Cook, Snowville, Barren County, Kentucky, free use of subscribers’ telephone line if he provides reciprocal access to lines running from Fountain Run, Monroe County, Kentucky, to his property.
Railroads - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 3026), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Railroads - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 3026), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3026. Circular addressed to James Guthrie, Louisville, Kentucky, 11 May 1850, inviting his attendance at a convention at Glasgow, Kentucky on 25 May to further a railroad project from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee. Bears the names of the citizens of Barren, Allen and Monroe counties on the Committee of Invitations.
Winn Family Letters (Sc 3015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Winn Family Letters (Sc 3015), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3015. Letters of the Winn family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes letters of Confederate solider Marcus De Lafayette Winn, his parole, oath of allegiance and obituary, and letters to Winn from former Civil War comrades. Other letters convey family news. Includes some Winn genealogical data.
Park City, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3009), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Park City, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3009), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3009. This collection discusses Park City, Kentucky’s history from when it started as Three Forks, then Bells Tavern, then incorporated as Glasgow Junction, and finally taking the name of Park City, because of its proximity to Mammoth Cave National Park.
Doll, Howard D. And Anne (Parker) Doll (Mss 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Doll, Howard D. And Anne (Parker) Doll (Mss 573), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 573. Correspondence and papers of of the Pool, Keel and Beauchamp families of Metcalfe (formerly Barren) County, Kentucky. Includes papers of related families: Mitchell, Clark, Rogers, Cook, Shirley Yates, and others. Civil War letters include a letter from James F. Keel (Click on "Additional Files" below for typescript) describing activity at Nashville, Tennessee in July 1862.
Edwards, Jerome Cyrus, 1854-1931 (Sc 2986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edwards, Jerome Cyrus, 1854-1931 (Sc 2986), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2986. Certificate, 26 October 1880, issued to Jerome C. Edwards, qualifying him to teach in the common schools of Barren, County, Kentucky; letter, 23 December 1921, to Jerome C. Edwards from his cousin Cyrus Edwards, Horse Cave, Kentucky, asking for data to complete a family history.
Parent Teacher Association - Austin Tracy Elementary School - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Parent Teacher Association - Austin Tracy Elementary School - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2985), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2985. Lists of presidents, officers and committees for the Austin Tracy Elementary School Parent Teacher Association. Includes summaries of programming for 1964-1966 and 1971-1972.
Payne Family - Bible Records (Sc 2984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Payne Family - Bible Records (Sc 2984), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2984. Genealogical records removed from the Bible of the Payne family, Barren County, Kentucky.
Gorin, Sandra Kaye (Laughery) - Collector (Sc 2937), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Gorin, Sandra Kaye (Laughery) - Collector (Sc 2937), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2937. Genealogical data on the Tolle and Snoddy families of Barren County, Kentucky.
Stockton, Robert (Lg 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stockton, Robert (Lg 391), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 391. Original land grant, 1836, January 26, by which Joseph Desha, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Stockton, assignee of James Nevill 200 acres in Barren County, Kentucky.
Stockton, Robert (Lg 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stockton, Robert (Lg 390), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 390. Copy of a land grant, 1821 March 29, by which John Adair, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Stockton 200 acres in Barren County, Kentucky.
Wilson, Jewell Gladys (Benedict), 1908-1996 (Sc 2930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wilson, Jewell Gladys (Benedict), 1908-1996 (Sc 2930), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2930. Correspondence of Gladys B. Wilson, Glasgow, Kentucky. Includes personal letters of Wilson, but many also relate to her genealogical and local history research and her work on behalf of the Barren County (South Central Kentucky) Historical Society.
Drake, Louise (Carson), 1894-1979 (Mss 536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Drake, Louise (Carson), 1894-1979 (Mss 536), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 536. Correspondence, notebooks, family histories, photocopies of wills, deeds, and other genealogical research of Louise (Carson) Drake of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes her roster of Revolutionary War soldiers who died in Kentucky.
Monroe, Thomas Bell, 1791-1865 (Lg 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Monroe, Thomas Bell, 1791-1865 (Lg 318), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 318. Original land grant, 1818, February 25, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Thomas B. Monroe and Benjamin F. Pleasants 113 acres in Barren County on Peter’s Creek.
Monroe, Thomas Bell, 1791-1865 (Lg 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Monroe, Thomas Bell, 1791-1865 (Lg 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 317. Original land grant, 1818, February 25, by which Gabriel Slaughter, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Thomas B. Monroe and Benjamin F. Pleasants 113 acres in Barren County on Peter’s Creek.