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Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Meador, Richards, Johnson Family Papers (Mss 345), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 345. Correspondence, legal documents, and sundry material related to the Meador, Richards, and Johnson families chiefly of Simpson County and Logan County, Kentucky. Also includes documents and correspondence from the King and Garrett families of Robertson and Sumner County, Tennessee. The attached 1842 letters are from R. M. Latimer to Caroline Garrett reporting the death and burial of her brother, George King, in Cuba; and to Caroline Garrett from another brother, John, discussing tensions with Mexico.
Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Travelstead, Chester Coleman, 1911-2006 (Mss 281), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 281. Chiefly personal and professional correspondence, speeches, journal articles, reminiscences, and news clippings of noted educator Chester Coleman Travelstead. Of particular interest are the materials related to his 1955 dismissal from the University of South Carolina owing to his support of racial integration. Also includes correspondence and diaries of his mother Nelle (Gooch) Travelstead, long-time Western Kentucky University faculty member.
Dickerson-Venable Family Papers (Mss 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dickerson-Venable Family Papers (Mss 334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 334. Correspondence, clippings and genealogical data relating to the Dickerson and Venable families of Warren County, Kentucky, and related families. Includes military papers from the War of 1812 and the Civil War.
Temple Family Papers (Mss 241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Temple Family Papers (Mss 241), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 241. Correspondence; financial and legal papers; genealogy and other material related to the Temple family of Warren County, Kentucky, particularly that of Adalaska L. and Mary Camilla (Miller) Temple and their daughter Ruth Hines Temple. Over 400 pieces of artwork on paper by the latter are found in the collection, including pencil, as well as, pen and ink drawings, watercolors, pastels, and other graphic and creative design work.
Rose?, Clarence (Sc 2343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rose?, Clarence (Sc 2343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text of Mansucripts Small Collection 2343. Letter of Clarence Rose, writing from Paintsville, Kentucky, to "Mary." He tells her that he has just been released from jail and intends to catch a freight train home and get his job back. For full-text click on "Additional File."
Wade-Thomas Collection (Sc 2334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wade-Thomas Collection (Sc 2334), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2334. Correspondence, chiefly between brothers, Francis Marion Wade, Russell County, Kentucky, and Cyrenius Wade while the later was attending school in Elkton, Todd County, Kentucky. The letters contain comments about the school, the town of Elkton, and courting. Numerous receipts for the brothers as well as the Thomas family of Russell County are also included. The letters were typescripted and annotated by Marion Lee Adams.
Oates, William Alfred, 1878-1918 (Sc 2296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Oates, William Alfred, 1878-1918 (Sc 2296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2296. Letters (44) from William Alfred Oates to his wife Alva Oates, written from Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Mississippi before and after their marriage. Oates writes of his affection for her, their future, her enrollment in school in Bowling Green, and his itinerary as a traveling salesman. Includes letters (21) to Alva Oates from friends and family after her husband's sudden death from peritonitis.
Hatfield-Gaines Family, 1834-1981 (Mss 2275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hatfield-Gaines Family, 1834-1981 (Mss 2275), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2275. Chiefy receipts, deeds, wills, and other legal and financial documents of the Hatfield and Gaines families of Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes some Civil War-era correspondence of the Hatfield family.
Dempsey, Joetta (Dorris), B. 1945 - Collector (Mss 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dempsey, Joetta (Dorris), B. 1945 - Collector (Mss 314), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 314. Materials collected by Dempsey related to the Kennerly and Simmons families of Dunmor, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Includes news clippings about the history of Dunmor and Penrod, Kentucky; genealogical information about the Kennerly, Penrod, Studebaker families; and photographs of the Kennerly family.
Page, Benjamin H., 1859-1916 - Letter To (Sc 2223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Page, Benjamin H., 1859-1916 - Letter To (Sc 2223), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2223. Letter to Benjamin H. Page, in Mud Lick, Monroe County, Kentucky, from Lou Ann Nichols, Randolph, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. She discusses their individual living and economic situations in the absence of any firm decision to marry, and asks him to keep her letters confidential.
Moody, Thomas Newton, 1938-2024 (Mss 287), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moody, Thomas Newton, 1938-2024 (Mss 287), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Chiefly letters from Moody, a Franklin, Kentucky native, written to his parents while attending college at Southwestern at Memphis and the University of Kentucky, and while teaching afterward in Elizabethtown. Also includes letters of the family of Moody’s grandmother, Drucilla Jane (Harris) Short.
Stephenson, Bertha C., 1885-1977 (Sc 2159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Stephenson, Bertha C., 1885-1977 (Sc 2159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2159. Letters (some incomplete) to Bertha C. Stephenson, of Milton, Trimble County, Kentucky, from friends, relatives and sweethearts in Kentucky, California and Florida. They write of gifts and photographs exchanged, mutual friends, travel, romances, and Stephenson's upcoming wedding. Includes a handwritten notice from the Board of Health requiring Stephenson and her pupils to be vaccinated in order to conduct school (click on "Additional Files" below for scan).