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Ligon, Lucy Ann (Parker) Robbins, 1833-1891 - Letters To (Sc 3278), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2018

Ligon, Lucy Ann (Parker) Robbins, 1833-1891 - Letters To (Sc 3278), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3278. Letters to Lucy Ann Robbins Ligon, the daughter of Fulton County, Kentucky judge Josiah Parker and his wife Lucy A. Parker, written while she lived in Crittenden County, Arkansas with her late husband’s brother, and in Hickman, Kentucky after her remarriage. Lucy’s parents relay news of her siblings and of pre-Civil War Hickman, and at the outbreak of war dramatically describe the division of loyalties, the townspeople’s fear and uncertainty as invasion threatens from the North, the enlistment of local men, two destructive fires, economic conditions, …


Vaughn, Gene H. - Letters To (Sc 3274), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2018

Vaughn, Gene H. - Letters To (Sc 3274), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3274. Condolence letters from 12th Street Church of Christ, Bowling Green, Kentucky, and Congressman William H. Natcher upon the death of Vaughn’s father, Eldon Howard Vaughn in September 1983.


Baxter, Ruth Vivian, B. 1908? (Sc 3269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2018

Baxter, Ruth Vivian, B. 1908? (Sc 3269), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3269. My Him Book, an illustrated memory album designed by Elisa E. Edwards (published in 1924) and given to Ruth Vivian Baxter, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in 1930. Ruth names and records comments about her life "loves," including childhood friends, school crushes, movie stars, musicians, and her husband; notes on their wedding include a list of gifts.


Mcdaniel, Robert Estle, Jr., B. 1965 (Sc 3169), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2018

Mcdaniel, Robert Estle, Jr., B. 1965 (Sc 3169), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3169. Typewritten Christmas list from the mid-1970s of Robert "Bob" McDaniel, Danville, Kentucky.