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St. Mary's Catholic Church - Franklin, Kentucky (Sc 1105), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1105. Unpublished history (30p.) of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Franklin, Kentucky, written by Father John A. Lyons, Louisville. Lyons’ accompanying letter relates information about his paper.

Suydam, Louise Twyman, 1915-1991 (Sc 833), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 833. Chiefly correspondence between Louise Twyman Suydam, Fort Pierce, Florida, and WKU Kentucky Building faculty concerning Suydam’s memories of Bowling Green during the 1920s, and biographical information about the Wright family. Includes a typescript copy of Suydam’s reminiscence, "The Best of Times?”

Mansfield, Marietta, 1917-2003 (Mss 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 426. Correspondence and genealogical research collected by Marietta Mansfield, a native of Warren County, Kentucky, and a Methodist minister that served various churches in Kentucky. The bulk of the collection relates to the Mansfield and Osborn(e) families of Kentucky and West Virginia. Includes letters written by Mansfield while serving as a missionary in India during the 1950s.

Mcreynolds, John Vernon (Sc 533), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 533. Excerpts from McReynolds family history written by Benjamin McReynolds, Methodist minister and school teacher, Butler County, Kentucky. Also, additions to the history by John Vernon McReynolds, Lewisburg, Logan County, Kentucky.

Rouse, Helen Elizabeth (Garvin), D. 1981 (Sc 546), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 546. Letter to Margie Helm, Librarian, Kentucky Library, from Helen E. (Garvin) Rouse, concerning records from the minutes of Mt. Zion Presbyterian Church, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, that relate to the Garvin and Irvin families and an accompanying statement related to the two families.

Venable Family Papers (Mss 382), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 382. Correspondence, account books, receipts, sermons, drawings, and diaries of the Venable family of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, chiefly John Wesley Venable, Sr. and his wife Fannie and son John, Jr. Of particular interest is an 1839-1839 travel journal kept by John, Sr. while in Florida. Also includes John, Sr.’s sermons and sermon preparation material as well as thirty-nine small diaries documenting his career as an Episcopal priest in Versailles and Hopkinsville. Includes one of John, Sr.’s art sketch books.

Craig, James Harvey, 1842-1929 (Sc 240), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 240. Photocopy of autobiography written by James H. Craig, possibly in 1917. He was a native of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, although he was an Arkansas resident for several years. The autobiography contains much Craig family data. In addition, there is a photocopy of Craig's essay denouncing the evils of alcohol, possibly to be delivered as a speech

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Society At Walker's Chapel - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 1296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1296. Typescript of the Class Book (membership register) of the Society at Walker's Chapel (now Walker's Chapel United Methodist Church), Allen County, Kentucky. Includes a foreword with historical information, and an index of names.

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

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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.