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Edmonson County, Kentucky - Records (Mss 760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmonson County, Kentucky - Records (Mss 760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 760. Primarily nineteenth-century records of Edmonson County, Kentucky, particularly the county court. Includes the county court order book beginning in 1825, the year of the county’s creation, militia lists, deed lists, and fee books. Also includes genealogical and historical data on the Houchin family.
Kirby Family Papers (Mss 749), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kirby Family Papers (Mss 749), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 749. Papers of the Kirby family of Warren County, Kentucky, especially Sarah Jane “Jennie” Kirby, her son Percy Warren Kirby, and his grandson Joseph W. Harris. Includes some genealogical data collected by Jennie.
Obenchain, William Alexander, 1841-1916 (Sc 3664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Obenchain, William Alexander, 1841-1916 (Sc 3664), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, typescript and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3664. Letter, 2 February 1874, of William A. Obenchain, Dallas, Texas, to A. G. Hobson, Bowling Green, Kentucky. The “Civil Engineer and Real Estate Agent” reports on a purchase of land in Dallas, outlines a plan for developing “our grounds” as building lots, and discusses the economic outlook for Dallas. Includes a deed, 19 December 1873, to Hobson’s son Joseph V. Hobson of lands in Dallas County, Texas, reciting that payment was made through Obenchain as his agent.
Mammoth Cave National Park - Relating To (Sc 3663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mammoth Cave National Park - Relating To (Sc 3663), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3663. Deeds relating to lands of the Vanmeter family (tract #37) in Edmonson County, Kentucky, which were conveyed to the Kentucky National Park Commission as part of the creation of Mammoth Cave National Park. Also includes a list of former owners of 575 tracts of land acquired for the park, and sketch maps of the tracts.
Short Family Papers (Mss 743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Short Family Papers (Mss 743), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 743. Deeds of the Short family, primarily Joseph P. Short, David T. Short, and David’s daughter Leona (Short) Tichenor, for land in Muhlenberg and McLean counties in Kentucky.
Dillon Family Deeds - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 3645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dillon Family Deeds - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 3645), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3645. Deeds, 1897-1977, relating to the title of the Dillon family to lands in Logan County, Kentucky, some of which were submerged by Lake Malone. Includes a plat (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan) and sketches of residential lots in Camp Dillon Subdivision, and brief notes on the creation of Lake Malone by the damming of Rocky Creek.
Bryant, Farnsworth Dudley, B. 1939 - Collector (Mss 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryant, Farnsworth Dudley, B. 1939 - Collector (Mss 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 741. Business papers of the Thomson family of Fayette County, Kentucky, most notably Patrick Henry Thomson, his son William Z. Thomson, and son-in-law Squire C. Gaines. Includes scans of selected materials (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Mss 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Mss 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 739. Various records of the Warren County, Kentucky Court relating to roads, bridges, wills and estates, land boundaries, taxation, stray animals, and other matters of law and local government. Most date from the first half of the 19th century.
Christian Science Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Christian Science Society - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3640), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3640. Legal papers, notes and historical data relating to the Christian Science Society, Bowling Green, Kentucky, particularly its acquisition of the church at 11th and Center Streets in Bowling Green, formerly the home of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and the Second Baptist Church. Includes articles of incorporation and bylaws for the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Bowling Green (1967) and draft articles of incorporation for the Society (1994).
Moulder-Campbell Family Papers (Mss 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moulder-Campbell Family Papers (Mss 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 734. Correspondence and papers of the Moulder, Campbell and related families of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data.
Strode Family Collection (Mss 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Strode Family Collection (Mss 729), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 729. Papers, primarily land records, of the Strode family of Monroe County, Kentucky.
Isbell Family Papers (Sc 3570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Isbell Family Papers (Sc 3570), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3570. Papers relating to the Isbell family of Warren County Kentucky: 1785 military land warrant to Thomas Isbell; various deeds, notes, receipts, bonds and accounts relating mainly to Temple Isbell; muster notice, 1815; agreements, 1812 and 1815, of Temple Isbell to teach a subscription school; 1843 letter of D. E. Isbell, Gasconade County, Missouri, with family news; and family records from the Bible of John K. Isbell.
Nicholls Family Papers (Sc 3563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Nicholls Family Papers (Sc 3563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3563. Correspondence and papers of Emma (Gates) Nicholls and her husband James M. Nicholls, a merchant of Calhoun, Kentucky who also served as McLean County Clerk. Includes mercantile accounts, legal papers and obituary of James Nicholls; Emma’s temperance pledge and WCTU leaflet; letters to her regarding some inherited Texas land; a photocopy of a family photograph; and a letter to Emma from her husband’s former store clerk repaying money improperly taken. Also includes Emma’s letters to her two daughters at school consoling them over illness caused by a vaccination; and invitations to the …
Sumpter Family Papers (Sc 3545), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter Family Papers (Sc 3545), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3545. Contracts, deeds, mortgages, bills of sale and associated documents of the Sumpter family of Bowling Green, Kentucky relating to the acquisition, subdivision and development of the Cedar Ridge neighborhood. Includes a 1962 plat map of a subdivision extension, a 1990 plan for a sanitary sewer extension, and a narrative history of the neighborhood. Also includes a Sumpter estate document and a promissory note and deed of the Patillo family.
Floyd Collection (Mss 689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Floyd Collection (Mss 689), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 689. Field books, 1851-1929, containing Warren County, Kentucky surveying notes recorded by John B. Floyd as well as some Warren County land records related to the Floyd family. Educational material from Jesse A. Floyd, Jr. relating to his teaching career in Warren County. A travel journal kept by Hubert and Alleyne Robinson during their trip to the western United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Bate Family Papers (Mss 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bate Family Papers (Mss 673), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 673. Correspondence, business, and legal papers of various members of the Bate family of Sumner County, Tennessee. Some of the children are located in San Augustine, Texas. Most of the correspondence centers around the mother, Ann Franklin (Weatherred) Bate and her children, particularly Eugenia Patience (Bate) Bass Bertinatti and Humphrey Howell Bate, and to a lesser degree their siblings. Includes extensive documentation about the financial and legal condition of Bertinatti after the Civil War. The originals are in the Tennessee State Library & Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
Puckett, Dillon Huette "D. Hugh," 1929-2010 (Mss 658), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Puckett, Dillon Huette "D. Hugh," 1929-2010 (Mss 658), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 658. Lewis family genealogy collected by Dr. Dillon Huette Puckett covering descendants in Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Missouri. Allied family files (those found in Box 4) are available in digital format only in TopSCHOLAR.
Thompson Family Papers (Sc 3270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thompson Family Papers (Sc 3270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3270. Correspondence and papers of the Thomson family, Fayette County, Kentucky, and related families. Most concerns the estate of Patrick Henry Thomson of Hurricane Hall near Lexington and its devolution to his widow Julia and their children and grandchildren. Includes data relating to Patrick's interest in lands in Texas once owned by Alamo defender Patrick Henry Herndon. Also includes a copy of the National Register of Historic Places nomination for Hurricane Hall.
Helm Family Papers (Mss 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm Family Papers (Mss 633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 633. Correspondence, business papers, deeds, and miscellaneous records of the Helm family of Butler County, Kentucky, and related families.
Alexander, Ingram, 1772-1841 (Sc 3250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Alexander, Ingram, 1772-1841 (Sc 3250), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3250. Deeds (5), land survey, and will related to Ingram Alexander, Cumberland County, Kentucky.
Priest Family Papers (Sc 3210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Priest Family Papers (Sc 3210), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3210. Correspondence and papers relating to the Priest family of Henderson County, Kentucky. Includes abstracts of title in connection with grants of coal rights. Correspondence discusses an estate settlement, pending legislation amending certain city charters, family financial matters, and a candidate’s defeat in an 1884 primary election after two of three barrooms in the precinct were “thrown wide open” for his opponent.
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 612. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and family papers of Richard Vance, a Warren County, Kentucky native and U.S. Army officer. After his Civil War service, Vance spent his career at several posts in the South and on the frontier until his retirement in 1892.
Woodcock, Greene B., 1814-1889 (Sc 3120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woodcock, Greene B., 1814-1889 (Sc 3120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
Winchel, Beulah Rhea, 1912-2015 (Mss 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Winchel, Beulah Rhea, 1912-2015 (Mss 609), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 609. Correspondence, photographs, travel materials, genealogy, and other personal papers of Beulah R. Winchel, a Breckinridge County, Kentucky, native and a teacher and librarian who served in Japan, Germany and France with the U.S. Army Special Services and the Department of Defense Dependents Schools.
Potter, Hugh Oliver, 1905-1986 (Mss 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Potter, Hugh Oliver, 1905-1986 (Mss 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 602. Correspondence, research notes, book manuscripts, promotional material, and editorials related to Hugh O. Potter’s career as a radio broadcaster and his interests in Kentucky history, specifically Owensboro and Daviess County, and Abraham Lincoln. Includes one box of original legal documents (1783-1953) related to the Massie family of Daviess County.
Bates, Georgia, 1916-1986 - Collector (Sc 3087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bates, Georgia, 1916-1986 - Collector (Sc 3087), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection SC 3087. Correspondence, documents and news clippings relating to the Bates family of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Deeds - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Deeds - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3082), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3082. Deed, 1874, transferring "less than 30 acres" from Reuben and Mary Howell to John E. Howell in Warren County, Kentucky.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Mss 63), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 63. Business records, deeds, notes, receipts, surveys, agreements, bill of complaint, etc., 1800-85; account books, 1843-89; journals, 1865-1916; agreement book of probationary members, 1858-1904; and manuscript hymnals, 1844-86 (6) of the Shaker Society of South Union, Kentucky. Journals include censuses of members. Click on "Additional Files" below for a list of deaths at South Union "from the beginning to the present date January 1st, 1879," with addenda to 1892; and for a name index to Shaker Record C.
Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Joiner-Rogers Collection (Mss 590), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 590. Personal and professional papers of Christian County, Kentucky teacher and administrator Erleen (Joiner) Rogers, and novels, poems, skits, epigrams and witticisms written by her father, Robert Tinnon Joiner. Includes a collection of Joiner’s writings titled Nonsense and Wisdom From Flat Lick, Rogers’ family history titled Seven Generations in and From Flat Lick, other family data, and photographs.