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Magruder-Clysdale Collection (Mss 284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Magruder-Clysdale Collection (Mss 284), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 284. Correspondence of the Magruder and Clysdale families of Louisville, Kentucky, London, Ontario and Grand Bend, Ontario. The correspondence covers family matters and the progress of the Magruders' professional work and writing on Protestant theology and social issues. Includes photographs relating to the Clysdales and a related family, the Brighams.


Bethel Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Bethel Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 256), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 256. Record books of Bethel Baptist Church, Gainesville, Allen County, Kentucky. Includes brief business information about the church, acts of church discipline, and when people were admitted to membership. Also includes the church's "Rules of Decorum" and "Articles of Faith."


White Stone Quarry Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

White Stone Quarry Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 298), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 298. Records of the White Stone Quarry Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky consisting of meeting minutes and membership lists.


Tackett, Kenneth Wayne, 1930-2016 (Sc 2083), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

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).


Spring Valley United Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 288), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2009

Spring Valley United Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 288), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 288. Minute books of Spring Valley United Baptist Church (formerly Pleasant Grove United Baptist Church), Logan County, Kentucky. Includes membership lists for white and black members. Typescripts, and name indexes for minute books included.


Piney Creek Baptist Church - Crittenden County, Kentucky (Mss 286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2009

Piney Creek Baptist Church - Crittenden County, Kentucky (Mss 286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 286. Minute book of Piney Creek Baptist Church, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Includes constitution, membership lists, and minutes from 1884 to 1914.


Shiloh Presbyterian Church - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 1808), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2009

Shiloh Presbyterian Church - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 1808), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1808. Minutes of the session of Shiloh Presbyterian Church, Sumner County, Tennessee, 1793-1886. Includes lists of members and decisions of the business meetings.


Smyrna Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2009

Smyrna Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 282), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 282. Photocopies of the record books of Smyrna Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Allen County, Kentucky, consisting of business meeting minutes covering primarily 1840 to 1898, and membership lists.


Zoar Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 245), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

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

MSS Finding Aids

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.


State Street Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2010), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

State Street Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2010), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2010. Monthly statement assessing amount due for "support of the Gospel," issued by State Street Methodist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Mrs. James A. Mitchell.


Center Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 274), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2009

Center Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 274), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 274. Records of Center Baptist Church, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of congregational meetings and membership lists. Indexes of the records for 1810 to 1877 are included.


Mount Pleasant Church Of Christ - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 272), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2009

Mount Pleasant Church Of Christ - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 272), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 272. Records of Mount Pleasant Church of Christ, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of congregational meetings, membership and financial records, and Sunday School records.


Macedonia Baptist Church - Lyon County, Kentucky (Mss 271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2009

Macedonia Baptist Church - Lyon County, Kentucky (Mss 271), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 271. Two record books of Macedonia Baptist Church, Kuttawa, Lyon County, Kentucky, for 1902-1923 and 1938-1947. Entries consist chiefly of church business meetings and membership lists.


Berea Christian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2009

Berea Christian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 270), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 270. Membership registers of Berea Christian Church, 1854 to 1895 (see scans under "Additional Files" below). Photocopy of deed to first church property included.


Hustonville Christian Church - Lincoln County, Kentucky (Mss 268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2009

Hustonville Christian Church - Lincoln County, Kentucky (Mss 268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 268. Photocopy of the record book of Hustonville Christian Church, Lincoln County, Kentucky, consisting of business meeting minutes covering primarily 1894 to 1944, and membership lists.


Barren River Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2009

Barren River Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 269. Photocopy of the record book of Barren River Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky, and a predecessor, Union Chapel Church, consisting primarily of business meeting minutes covering 1840-1968, and membership lists.


State Street Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2009

State Street Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1960), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1960. Letter of agreement between the church's building committee and the architect, Reuben Harrison Hunt, regarding drawings and specifications for a new building; also includes information about financing the building project.


Hurley, Edwin Gray (Sc 1954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2009

Hurley, Edwin Gray (Sc 1954), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1954. Two sermons delivered by Edwin Gray Hurley while he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Delafield Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 266), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2009

Delafield Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 266), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 266. Record books (3) of Delafield Baptist Church from 12 December 1893 to 21 October 1914. Entries consist chiefly of church business meetings.


Green River Association Of Baptists (Sc 1921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2009

Green River Association Of Baptists (Sc 1921), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1921. Scattered minutes of the association's meetings, 1800 to 1875; information sheets related to association's meetings, 1809-1937.


Camp Joy (Mss 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2009

Camp Joy (Mss 251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 251. Correspondence, minutes, financial reports, worship programs, by-laws, and policies related to the history of Camp Joy, a Baptist encampment in Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky.


Red River Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2009

Red River Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 258. Copies of items related to the history of the church; items detailing the preservation efforts of the Red River Church Memorial and Cemetery Association; 1948 list of burials in the Old Red River graveyard.


Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Covenant, 1830 (Sc 1922), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2009

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Covenant, 1830 (Sc 1922), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1922. Covenant, or constitution, for the Shaker community at South Union, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes signatures of those Shakers confirming this document. Original found in Shaker Record A, pp. 619-640.


Lackey, Patricia L., 1932-2014 (Sc 1903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2009

Lackey, Patricia L., 1932-2014 (Sc 1903), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1903. Letters written by Patricia L. Lackey, Maun, Botswana, to Marjorie McClain, Bowling Green, Kentucky related to her missionary activities.


Hardcastle, Mildred (Tucker), 1894-1994 - Collector (Sc 1891), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Hardcastle, Mildred (Tucker), 1894-1994 - Collector (Sc 1891), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1891. Typescript of a 1924 news clipping about the Smiths Grove Baptist Church and a holographic listing of information related to churches in Bowling Green and Warren County.


Oakland Christian Church - Oakland, Kentucky (Sc 1890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Oakland Christian Church - Oakland, Kentucky (Sc 1890), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1890. Abstracted sections from church minutes, 1840-1888, and a list of members from 1835-1908 compiled by Mildred (Tucker) Hardcastle; also a commemorative history, 1974.


Hawkins, Jeff (Sc 1898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Hawkins, Jeff (Sc 1898), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1898. Newsletters from Jeff and Lou Ann Hawkins concerning their ministry in eastern Kentucky at Cody Bible Church, Viper, Perry County, Kentucky, and Twin Rocks Bible Camp, Red Fox, Knott County, Kentucky.


Bowling Green, Kentucky - Churches - Presbyterian (Sc 1893), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Bowling Green, Kentucky - Churches - Presbyterian (Sc 1893), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1893. A typed list of members of Bowling Green's Presbyterian Church from 1819 to 1888; includes membership, baptisms, ordinations, dismissals, etc.


Melbourne, Mary Ellen, 1872-1923 (Sc 1885), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2009

Melbourne, Mary Ellen, 1872-1923 (Sc 1885), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1885. Letter, 15 February 1921, from Sister Ethel Freda (Mary Ann Melbourne) to a relative, Blanche Heckel, Vinita, Oklahoma. While undergoing medical treatment at St. Angela's Home, Louisville, Kentucky, she discusses her family and life at Mount St. Joseph's convent in Daviess County. She mourns the death of Mother Aloysius, the convent's first Mother Superior, whom she had accompanied to California on a mission to improve her health.


Baker, James Thomas, B. 1940 (Sc 1801), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2009

Baker, James Thomas, B. 1940 (Sc 1801), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1801. Typescript titled "Christ and Anti-Christ[:] Reciprocal Excommunication in North Carolina" analyzing the controversy surrounding a 1924 Elizabeth City, North Carolina revival conducted by Mordecai F. Ham.