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Bethel College - Matriculation Records, 1854-1919 (Mss 182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bethel College - Matriculation Records, 1854-1919 (Mss 182), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 182. Matriculation book (414 p.) for Bethel College, 1854-1918. Bethel, a Baptist school located in Russellville, Kentucky, started as a high school, evolved into a four-year college, and finally became a junior college.
Rodes, John Barret, 1870-1970 (Sc 1785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rodes, John Barret, 1870-1970 (Sc 1785), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1785. Letter, 29 July 1944, from lawyer John Barret Rodes, Bowling Green, Kentucky to his daughter Mary (Rodes) Helm in which he discusses instances of lynching and mob violence in Warren and Logan counties. Includes an explanatory letter from Mary Helm.
Russellville Institute - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 1789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Russellville Institute - Russellville, Kentucky (Sc 1789), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1789. Register of the Russellville Institute, Russellville, Logan County, Kentucky listing names of students, a conduct report for each, and tuition payment. Also birth, death, and marriage records of the Goucher family.
Stevenson, James, 1764-1857 (Sc 45), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stevenson, James, 1764-1857 (Sc 45), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 45. Power of attorney authorization signed by James Stevenson, Logan County, Kentucky, 1857, by which his Revolutionary War pension which he was granted in 1832 is to be received by his attorney, Jonas H. Rhorer.
African-American Marriage Certificate - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
African-American Marriage Certificate - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1735. Certificate of Nancy and Vilindee? Beason, Logan County, Kentucky, declaring that they had lived together in the past and desired to continue doing so as husband and wife.
Akers, Sammie D., 1918-2002 (Mss 229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Akers, Sammie D., 1918-2002 (Mss 229), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 229. This collection consists almost exclusively of World War II correspondence of Sammie D. Akers, a Logan County, Kentucky native. Approximately two-thirds of the correspondence is with his mother, Betty A. Akers, with whom he discusses the home farm, potential land purchases, church news, and local events.
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Neal, Mary Julia, 1905-1995 (Mss 4), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Correspondence, speeches, and writings of Shaker scholar and English professor, Mary Julia Neal, a native of Auburn, Kentucky. Neal served as director of the Kentucky Building at Western Kentucky University from 1964 to 1972. Includes photos and correspondence with twentieth century eastern Shakers.
Felts, Archibald, 1758-1825 (Sc 1699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Felts, Archibald, 1758-1825 (Sc 1699), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1699. Typescripts of Felts's 1817 will, 1825 estate inventory, and family Bible records. A scanned copy of the Felts family Bible record as well as the supporting material for his pension petition can be accessed by clicking on the "Additional Files" links. Also includes an article about Felts's grandson Daniel Boler, who became an elder of the Mount Lebanon, New York Shaker community.
Duncan-Ponvert, Annie Franchot, 2001-2004 (Mss 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Duncan-Ponvert, Annie Franchot, 2001-2004 (Mss 218), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 218. Duncan-Ponvert's thesis "The Stories of Eleven Who Served in World War II from Lewisburg, Kentucky" and the cassette tapes of the interviews she conducted as part of the research.
New Union Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 78), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
New Union Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 78), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 78. Photocopies of minutes, membership records, and Ladies Missionary and Aid Society records of New Union Baptist Church, Logan County, Kentucky.
Corbin, Elvis G., 1848-1918 (Sc 1621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Corbin, Elvis G., 1848-1918 (Sc 1621), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1621. Tax receipts from E.G. Corbin and Nancy (Nannie) Corbin, Logan County, Kentucky; receipts for payment of E.G. Corbin's burial expenses.
Lewisburg United Methodist Church - Lewisburg, Kentucky (Mss 94), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lewisburg United Methodist Church - Lewisburg, Kentucky (Mss 94), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 94. Quarterly conference records of Lewisburg, Kentucky Methodist Episcopal, South Circuit, which includes churches in Logan and Muhlenberg Counties, 1885-1941. Relates to Beechland Methodist Church, Concord Methodist Church, Kennerly’s Chapel Methodist Church, Lewisburg United Methodist Church, Sand Spring Methodist Church, and Union Grove Methodist Church. Includes additional data about churches in the conference; church roll books, 1875-1949; and Woman's Missionary Society minutes, 1883-1968.
Bryan, Fannie Morton, 1870-1965 (Mss 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bryan, Fannie Morton, 1870-1965 (Mss 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 83. Diaries, 1889-1895, correspondence, 1885-1955, photographs, and related items of Fannie Morton Bryan, a Russellville debutante and school teacher. Includes Logan Female College records, 1860-1869, and Russellville Methodist Episcopal Church records, 1863-1889.
Elliott, Elizabeth, D. 1822 (Sc 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Elliott, Elizabeth, D. 1822 (Sc 14), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scanned image (click on "Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 14. Bill itemizing articles used in preparation for and burial of Elizabeth Elliott, Logan County, Kentucky paid by William Allen to Will V. Morris.
Thomas, Mazie Lee (Allen), 1906-2001 (Mss 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomas, Mazie Lee (Allen), 1906-2001 (Mss 199), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Scrapbook of artwork created by Mazie Lee (Allen) Thomas, an African American folk artist from Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky. The scrapbook was compiled by Thomas's niece, Vicki Lawrence. Also includes a biographical sketch, slides of four oil paintings, news clippings and a short videotape.
Dripping Spring Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dripping Spring Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1588. Photocopies of the records of Dripping Spring Baptist Church, Olmstead (Logan County), Kentucky, 14 December 1850-31 March 1900; includes name indexes. Also included is a 125th anniversary program for the church, which incorporates a brief church history and a drawing of the building.
Ewing Family - Logan County, 1813-1888 (Sc 1572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ewing Family - Logan County, 1813-1888 (Sc 1572), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1572. Deeds, wills, and other business papers of the Ewing family, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes two letters, 1813 & 1814, from Henry S. Pirkey, Rockingham County, Virginia, to Robert Ewing, Logan County, related to land sales. also, information about Ewing family genealogy, and a memorial sermon given for George Washington Ewing by David Morton at Red River Church, 1888.
Ewing, Robert, 1760-1832 (Lg 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ewing, Robert, 1760-1832 (Lg 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Land Grant 415. Original land grant, 17 June 1797, by which James Garrard, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, granted to Robert Ewing 200 acres in Logan County, Kentucky.
New Friendship Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
New Friendship Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 178. This collection consists chiefly of membership lists and minutes of the New Friendship Baptist Church of Logan, Kentucky, 1834-1877, 1898-1988. Also included is an 1895 history of the church, Articles of Faith, and Rules of Decorum for the congregation.
Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1534. Church register for the Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church, South, located in southern Logan County, Kentucky, from December 1925 to April 1973. Register includes list of members, marriages, and baptisms. Also includes several news clippings.
Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1566. Register of church members, 1894-1946, for Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South located in Logan County, Kentucky. Also, original 1823 document conveying land for the meeting house, accounts of church conferences, and certificates of membership.