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Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 281. Chiefly personal and professional correspondence, speeches, journal articles, reminiscences, and news clippings of noted educator Chester Coleman Travelstead. Of particular interest are the materials related to his 1955 dismissal from the University of South Carolina owing to his support of racial integration. Also includes correspondence and diaries of his mother Nelle (Gooch) Travelstead, long-time Western Kentucky University faculty member.
Warren County, Kentucky - Wills (Mss 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Wills (Mss 54), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 54. Original wills, made mostly in Warren County, Kentucky from 1798-1881, but including wills made elsewhere. Also includes some legal documents relating to wills. A name index is included in the finding aid. The is only a small portion of the original wills filed at the Warren County courthouse form 1798 to 1915.
Temple Family Papers (Mss 241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Temple Family Papers (Mss 241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 241. Correspondence; financial and legal papers; genealogy and other material related to the Temple family of Warren County, Kentucky, particularly that of Adalaska L. and Mary Camilla (Miller) Temple and their daughter Ruth Hines Temple. Over 400 pieces of artwork on paper by the latter are found in the collection, including pencil, as well as, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, pastels, and other graphic and creative design work.
Settle-Dewitt Family Papers (Mss 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Settle-Dewitt Family Papers (Mss 332), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans of Folders 2 and 3 relating to genealogy (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 332. Includes correspondence, genealogical materials; wills, deeds and other legal documents of the Settle and DeWitt families; and the memoir of Marcus Bearden DeWitt, a minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church and a Civil War chaplain (Click on "Additional Files" below). Also of interest is information related to the Settle rifle makers of Barren County, Kentucky.
Slaton Family Papers, 1760-1976 (Mss 322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slaton Family Papers, 1760-1976 (Mss 322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 322. Chiefly personal correspondence, legal and business papers, and news clippings related to the Slaton family of Hopkins County, Kentucky. Includes Civil War-era letters as well as deeds, wills, tax receipts, and other miscellaneous nineteenth century documents.
Tolle Family Papers (Sc 2211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Tolle Family Papers (Sc 2211), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2211. Genealogical information related to the Tolle family of Barren County, Kentucky. Includes copies of Roger Tolle’s 1778 Fauquier County, Virginia will, William Tolle’s journal of his overland trip from Barren County to Clay County, Missouri in 1834, and an 1864 letter from William Mansfield serving with the 21st Kentucky Infantry (Union) to his wife Elizabeth (Tolle) Mansfield.
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 2149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870 (Sc 2149), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (click on Additional Files below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2149. Letter from Robert Edward Lee to Colonel Robert P. Blount, Provost Marshal at Guiney Depot [Guiney's Station], Virginia. Lee instructs him to hold the position, declines to provide artillery support, and refers to the transportation of prisoners. Includes copies of Confederate postage stamps and currency. Poor quality photostatic copy.
Lucas Family Papers (Mss 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lucas Family Papers (Mss 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and photograph (additional file) for Manuscript Collection 265. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, genealogical material, and photographs of the Lucas family of Warren County, Kentucky. Most of the material relates to Nathaniel Lucas (d. 1807 in Warren County), his children, and one of his descendants, Miss Nancy Clyde Lucas.
Cosby Family Papers (Mss 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cosby Family Papers (Mss 242), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 242. Letters to John Dudley Cosby, Muhlenberg County, and his family, from other family members in Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mississippi. Includes genealogical data, some of Cosby's personal papers, and his estate inventory.