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New Union Congregation - Green County, Kentucky (Sc 3577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2021

New Union Congregation - Green County, Kentucky (Sc 3577), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3577. Minute book of the New Union Congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Green County, Kentucky (which by 1922 had united with the Greensburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church). Includes a typescript of the minute book in paper and electronic format, with added index; historical notes, 1826-1967; and data concerning the land on which the church was built.


Bethlehem Methodist Church - Monroe County, Kentucky (Sc 3485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2019

Bethlehem Methodist Church - Monroe County, Kentucky (Sc 3485), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3485. "Bethlehem Methodist Church (Monroe County, Kentucky) Membership List, ca. 1853-54" compiled by Charles R. Arterburn. A one-page history of the church is included on page 2. The remainder of the pages are photocopies of the church’s membership list from 1853 to 1854, although the church was established in 1839.


Greenwood Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2019

Greenwood Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3452), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3452. Miscellaneous documents related to the history of Greenwood Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky.


Holsapple, John Wright, 1854-1947 (Sc 3313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2019

Holsapple, John Wright, 1854-1947 (Sc 3313), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3313. Letter, 4 April 1885, of J. W. Holsapple, Fairdealing, Kentucky, to J. F. McCartney, Metropolis, Illinois, on letterhead of the South Kentucky Christian Missionary and Sunday School Association. An evangelist for the Association, Holsapple advises that he is free to take engagements after the organization’s coming meeting in Henderson, Kentucky. While preferring a southern location, he encourages McCartney to make a proposal for them to discuss at the meeting.


Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 3301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2018

Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 3301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 3301. Letters of Reverend Learner Blackman Davison to his brother Dr. David Davison, Hawesville, Kentucky. The Methodist preacher writes cheerfully from Henderson and Hopkinsville of his travels as a circuit rider in Kentucky: his hosts along the way, including a family he found living “in the dirt”; his overworked horses; his popularity with African Americans, old women, and children; and the split of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He tells David of his intention to remain unmarried for a few more years, and to …


Warren Association Of Baptists - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2018

Warren Association Of Baptists - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 652), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 652. Documentation from the search for a Director of Missions led by the Search Committee of the Warren Association of Baptists headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Brunson, Grace Myra (Pitchford), 1877-1965 (Sc 3257), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2018

Brunson, Grace Myra (Pitchford), 1877-1965 (Sc 3257), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3257. “Why I Am A Baptist,” an essay by Grace (Mrs. J. R.) Brunson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, setting out the process by which she came to embrace the Baptist doctrine.


Morgan, Nyla Margaret (Hammers) Moore, 1918-2017 (Mss 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2018

Morgan, Nyla Margaret (Hammers) Moore, 1918-2017 (Mss 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 639. Information collected by Morgan about Butler County, Kentucky history and historical organizations. Genealogical records related to Morgan, Moore, and Johnson families (particularly the children of Christopher Columbus “Lum” Johnson, 1847-1921), as well as allied families. Includes two boxes of material related to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia, particularly its women’s Relief Society.


Old Union Church Of Christ - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 3216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2018

Old Union Church Of Christ - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 3216), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3216. Minute book of Old Union Church of Christ, Sumner County, Tennessee, also known as the Congregation Electa Cyrea. Includes an introductory narrative on the formation of the church, meeting minutes, members lists (white and African American), and lists of contributions and expenditures.


C.D.G. Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 2018

C.D.G. Club - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 3214), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3214. Minutes of the C.D.G. (Children Desiring God) Club, Bowling Green, Kentucky, composed of women members of the First Baptist Church. Includes meeting minutes, members lists, and financial data.


Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2017

Presbyterian Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 623), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 623. Minutes, letters, resolutions, subscriptions and other documents relating to the early history of the Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky, including doctrinal schisms in 1837 and 1868 and the reunification of its congregation.


Gano, John Allen, 1805-1887 (Sc 3096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2017

Gano, John Allen, 1805-1887 (Sc 3096), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3096. Letters from church leaders in the central Kentucky region to John Allen Gano, a Christian Church minister in Bourbon County, Kentucky. The letters reference the charisma of Gano’s sermons and solicit his visitation to various church meetings and services.


Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2017

Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 603. Manuscript books of sermons, religious, medical and other writings created by Benjamin McReynolds, a Butler County, Kentucky Methodist minister. Includes family history and records of schools operated by McReynolds.


Brown, Michael R. - Collector (Sc 3088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2017

Brown, Michael R. - Collector (Sc 3088), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding Aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3088. Correspondence of Janice Holt Giles related to the “White Caps,” the Brethren in Christ church, and collected by Michael R. Brown for a scholarly article he produced on the topic. Also includes a chronology of Giles’ life compiled by Brown as well as a copy of his completed article. Giles used the information she gleaned about the “White Caps” in one of her books, Tara’s Healing.


Emerson, Jemima (Burnham), 1783-1868 And Romanus Emerson, 1782-1852 (Sc 3086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2017

Emerson, Jemima (Burnham), 1783-1868 And Romanus Emerson, 1782-1852 (Sc 3086), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3086. Letter, 2 September 1822, from Jemima and Romanus Emerson, Boston, Massachusetts, to Fanny Goodridge, Lexington, Kentucky, in which they express their concern about Goodridge’s move from Boston to Kentucky and her religious experience.


Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2016

Eastwood Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky - Relating To (Sc 3076), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3076. Two letters to Brent Price, Bowling Green, Kentucky, relating to his preparation of an article on Eastwood Baptist Church, also in Bowling Green. William H. Rogers, Director of the Kentucky Baptist Convention, writes on 22 November 1978 of the principles followed during his pastorship there, and Sam Todd writes on 6 December 1978 with a historical sketch of the church.


Sweets, Henry Hayes, 1872-1952 (Sc 3055), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Sweets, Henry Hayes, 1872-1952 (Sc 3055), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3055. Mimeographed letter, 20 March 1906, of Henry H. Sweets, Louisville, Kentucky, Secretary, Executive Committee, Ministerial Education and Relief, of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. He urges recipients to convey the “crying need” for ministers to parents, teachers and young men in the church, and offers to send literature to interested parties whose names are forwarded to the Committee.


Green River General Baptist Church - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 3027), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2016

Green River General Baptist Church - Ohio County, Kentucky (Sc 3027), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3027. Minutes of the Green River General Baptist Church, Ohio County, Kentucky, from 10 December 1883 to 8 June 1901. Includes membership list.


Berea Christian Church - Fayette County, Kentucky (Sc 3024), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2016

Berea Christian Church - Fayette County, Kentucky (Sc 3024), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3024. Two passbooks of Farmers Bank of Kentucky, Georgetown, Kentucky, recording accounts of Berea Christian Church, Fayette County, Kentucky, 1873-1875, and Berea Church Sunday School, 1875-1878.


Plano Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3006), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Plano Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3006), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3006. Minutes of meetings of Plano Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky (also known as the United Baptist Church of Christ at Plano), 1897-1917.


Old Union Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Old Union Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 575), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 575. Minutes and membership lists of Old Union Church, Warren County, Kentucky (also known as the United Baptist Church at Union).


Red River Church - Robertson County, Tennessee (Sc 3002), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2016

Red River Church - Robertson County, Tennessee (Sc 3002), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3002. Minutes of Red River Church, Robertson County, Tennessee. Includes minutes of meetings and membership lists. Also includes the constitution and rules of decorum of the Cumberland Baptist Association. A typescript is available in the Kentucky Library Research Collections (F443 .R55 1983)


Harris, William, 1772-1845 - Relating To (Sc 2981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Harris, William, 1772-1845 - Relating To (Sc 2981), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2981. Research notes of Mary Leiper Moore, director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University, related to William Harris, an important early minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.


Mount Union Baptist Church - Summersville, Kentucky (Sc 2894), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2015

Mount Union Baptist Church - Summersville, Kentucky (Sc 2894), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scan for Manuscripts Small Collection 2894. Minute book containing minutes from business meetings of the Mount Union Baptist Church in Summersville, Green County, Kentucky. Also includes information about offerings and lists of members. Short history of the church included.


Union County, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2888), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2015

Union County, Kentucky - Letter (Sc 2888), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2888. Portion of a letter, 25 December 1865, written from Morganfield, Kentucky, by a Presbyterian clergyman to his father. After a two-year lapse in communication, he updates his father on his teaching duties at a male academy and his preaching at two churches. He also mourns social ills such as crime and intemperance, and contrasts the irreligion of the North with the growth of evangelical churches in the South.


Mt. Vernon United Baptist Church Of Christ - Butler County, Kentucky (Mss 507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2014

Mt. Vernon United Baptist Church Of Christ - Butler County, Kentucky (Mss 507), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 507. Minutes, financial reports, membership lists, articles of incorporation, deeds, etc. for Mt. Vernon United Baptist Church of Christ in Butler County, Kentucky, now Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Church.


Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (Mss 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2014

Jones, Drucilla Montgomery (Stovall), 1907-2007 (Mss 493), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 493. Correspondence, chiefly from the Fort and Flowers families of Logan County, Kentucky, which includes prisoners of war correspondence from the Civil War. Also includes cemetery, church, and funeral home records, as well as news clippings about historic sites, people and events in Logan County.


Stockholm United Baptist Church - Edmonson County, Kentucky (Sc 1286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2014

Stockholm United Baptist Church - Edmonson County, Kentucky (Sc 1286), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1286. An account of the formation of the Stockholm United Baptist Church, written by Thelma Strange. The church was formed in 1910 in Edmonson County, Kentucky. Includes a list of charter members and ministers.


Revivals - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2014

Revivals - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 1232), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1232. Instructional letter sent to crusade choir members that planned to participate in Celebration ’97, a Ralph Bell/Billy Graham Crusade in Bowling Green, Kentucky.


Religion - Letters Of Recommendation (Sc 1228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2013

Religion - Letters Of Recommendation (Sc 1228), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1228. Letters of recommendation of various individuals given by the following Baptist churches in Allen County, Kentucky: Bethel, 1836, 1861; Bethlehem, 1851; Liberty, 1852; and by Rocky Spring in Warren County, Kentucky, 1852.