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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

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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.


Jackson Family Papers (Sc 2011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2009

Jackson Family Papers (Sc 2011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2011. Legal papers of the Jackson family of Allen County, Kentucky, relating chiefly to property owned by Samuel Jackson. Includes wills and accounts, a teacher's register from 1881, and copies of family photographs.


Warren County, Kentucky - New Deal Programs, 1934-1935 (Mss 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2009

Warren County, Kentucky - New Deal Programs, 1934-1935 (Mss 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 253. Documents related to New Deal relief programs in Warren County, Kentucky and surrounding counties; correspondence of Ida Leighton Hodges, Bowling Green, Area Administrator of the Kentucky Emergency Relief Administration.


Scottsville Baptist Church - Scottsville, Kentucky (Mss 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2009

Scottsville Baptist Church - Scottsville, Kentucky (Mss 248), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 248. Record books of Scottsville Baptist Church, 12 May 1841 to 5 January 1908. Entries consist chiefly of minutes of church business meetings.


Read, Samuel James, 1808-1889 (Sc 1678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Read, Samuel James, 1808-1889 (Sc 1678), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1678. Letter to Dr. A. S. Walker, Allen County, Kentucky, 9 November 1862, from Samuel James Read relating to military supplies during the Civil War.


Hunter, Whiteside Godfrey, 1841-1917 (Sc 1765), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2008

Hunter, Whiteside Godfrey, 1841-1917 (Sc 1765), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1765. Letters from Whiteside Godfrey Hunter, former state legislator and U.S. Congressman, to E. Scott Brown, attorney, Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, requesting his support for Republican candidates. He also indicates he has requested Sidney P. Hardcastle be appointed postmaster at Settle, Allen County, Kentucky.


Moore Collection (Sc 37), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2008

Moore Collection (Sc 37), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 37. Copy of the will of Samuel Moore, Bowling Green, Kentucky, written 29 September 1846 and recorded 6 December 1850 in Hickman County Court, and an incomplete, undated and unsigned deed for land in Allen County, Kentucky, conveying land to David A. Porter by Robert Moore.


Courtship Letters (Sc 1704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Aug 2008

Courtship Letters (Sc 1704), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1704. Two 1910 letters to Lucy Ann Boucher of Settle, Allen County, Kentucky from two admirers. One is in answer to a personal ad.


Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Ford, William Barry, 1832-1880 (Sc 1682), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid, scans and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1682. Three letters to Ford, Scottsville, Allen County, Kentucky, from John H. Blue, Brunswick, Missouri, related to land owned there by ancestor John Bright, and a letter of information from Bright’s daughter in Texas. Also, the answer of defendants to a petition filed in Barren County, Kentucky Circuit Court by C. C. Stark, administrator of James Stark, disputing the value of three slaves stated to have been mortgaged to James Stark by Ford on 4 May 1865. With respect to one enslaved woman, the defendants claim …


Allen County, Kentucky - Churches - Baptist, 1851-1861 (Sc 1688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Allen County, Kentucky - Churches - Baptist, 1851-1861 (Sc 1688), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1688. Four letters of dismissal in good standing for members from three Baptist churches in Allen County, Kentucky. Three of the letters are signed by minister Mordecai F. Ham.


Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2008

Price Family Collection (Mss 226), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 226. Chiefly courtship correspondence between Robert Yancy Price, Rockfield, Kentucky and his girlfriend and future wife, Virginia Eva Dalton, Scottsville, Kentucky. Also includes information about Price's death and subsequent letters sent to Virginia by friends and family members.


Brackin, Green, 1822-1901 (Sc 1608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2008

Brackin, Green, 1822-1901 (Sc 1608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1608. Deed for sale of Green Brackin's Allen County, Kentucky land to G.B. Woodcock, dated 30 August 1859.


Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2008

Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 194), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 194. Scrapbooks (3) of manuscript music, chiefly gospel music, written and composed by Arlis Odell Harmon, of Allen County, Kentucky.


Durham, John G., 1813-1896 (Mss 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2008

Durham, John G., 1813-1896 (Mss 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 9. Correspondence, diaries, receipts books, tax receipts, licenses receipts, church membership certificates, and miscellaneous receipts of John G. Durham, a Baptist minister of Warren County, Kentucky. Also legal papers of Allen County and Warren County, Kentucky. Correspondents include A. Broaddus, Samuel Howard Ford, George W. Robertson, and Orson Holland Morrow.


Hinton, John Littleton, 1844-1920 (Sc 1311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2007

Hinton, John Littleton, 1844-1920 (Sc 1311), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1311. Civil War discharge for John L. Hinton, a member of Company A, 52nd Regiment, of Kentucky Mounted Infantry Volunteers. Hinton was from Allen County, Kentucky.


Spencer, John Henderson, 1826-1897 (Mss 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2004

Spencer, John Henderson, 1826-1897 (Mss 120), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 120. Incomplete biography of John Henderson Spencer for the years, 1826-1876. Spencer, a native of Allen County, Kentucky, was a Baptist minister and author. Includes a tribute to Spencer on the fiftieth anniversary of his death, 1946.


Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Mss 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2003

Herdman, Guy Hess, 1875-1947 (Mss 68), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 68. Personal and business papers, 1905-1935 (293 items), of Herdman, an attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and assistant attorney general of Kentucky, 1936-1947, and legal papers, 1884-1934 (867), from his practice in Bowling Green which relate chiefly to civil and commercial matters in Warren County, Kentucky.


Rough Creek Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1999

Rough Creek Baptist Church - Allen County, Kentucky (Mss 125), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 125. Minutes, 1841-1961, of Rough Creek Baptist Church, Allen County, Kentucky. Includes a small amount of minutes from a Maderson School, a Sabbath School or Sunday School, in Allen County. Minutes includes information about church leadership, governance, discipline and activities.


Eubank, Mildred Olevia, 1895-1985 (Mss 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives May 1997

Eubank, Mildred Olevia, 1895-1985 (Mss 86), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 86. Genealogical materials collected by Mildred Olevia Eubank, an Allen County, Kentucky native, but long-time resident of Simpson County. Especially noted are the Chiles, Eubank, Harrell, Hunt, Lewis, Page, Potts, Reeder, and Stamps families chiefly in the counties of Allen, Simpson and Warren.


Roemer, Sarah Gentry (Sears), 1868-1943 (Mss 99), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 1996

Roemer, Sarah Gentry (Sears), 1868-1943 (Mss 99), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 99. Correspondence of Warren County, Kentucky native, Sarah Gentry (Sears) Roemer. Most of the correspondents are her family members. The collection includes a number of courtship letters and notes (1890-1891) from Charles Roemer, her future husband.


Downing - Eubank Collection (Mss 93), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1994

Downing - Eubank Collection (Mss 93), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 93. Correspondence and business papers concerning the Downing and Eubank families in the Kentucky counties of Allen and Barren, which chiefly include Civil War letters, 1862-1865 (7); Allen and Barren County deeds; and tax receipts, 1832-1922. Also biographical information.


Brown, Robert T., 1871-1939 (Sc 1351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 1993

Brown, Robert T., 1871-1939 (Sc 1351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1351. Ministerial record book kept by R. T. Brown, a Methodist minister, who resided mostly in Kentucky and West Virginia. Besides listing places where he preached, he also lists sermon titles, responses, weddings and funerals.