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Hamilton Family Collection (Mss 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hamilton Family Collection (Mss 698), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 698. Correspondence of the family of Eleazer and Emily (Perry) Hamilton of Middle Tennessee, and related families in Texas and Mississippi.
Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 3301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 3301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 3301. Letters of Reverend Learner Blackman Davison to his brother Dr. David Davison, Hawesville, Kentucky. The Methodist preacher writes cheerfully from Henderson and Hopkinsville of his travels as a circuit rider in Kentucky: his hosts along the way, including a family he found living “in the dirt”; his overworked horses; his popularity with African Americans, old women, and children; and the split of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He tells David of his intention to remain unmarried for a few more years, and to …
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Mcreynolds, Benjamin, 1769-1845 (Mss 603), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scans of selected items (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Collection 603. Manuscript books of sermons, religious, medical and other writings created by Benjamin McReynolds, a Butler County, Kentucky Methodist minister. Includes family history and records of schools operated by McReynolds.
Jones, A. B. (Sc 3033), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jones, A. B. (Sc 3033), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3033. Letter, 21 May 1845, of silk merchant A. B. Jones to the postmaster at Bucklands Corners, Connecticut. Writing from Louisville, Kentucky, where intestinal illness has delayed his travel, he describes his treatment with brandy, mustard seed poultices, and morphine. He also mentions seeing “our cousins” in New Albany, Indiana, and the determination of the Southern Methodist Convention, then meeting in Louisville, to “separate from the free states.”
Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harmon, Arlis Odell, 1905-1992 (Mss 153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 153. Poems, 1934-1991, obituaries, 1964-1990, written by Arlis Odell Harmon, a gospel song writer and enthusiast, of Allen County, Kentucky. Includes correspondence about gospel music, genealogical data, photos, etc.
Munday, Walter Irvin, 1895-1965 (Sc 2608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Munday, Walter Irvin, 1895-1965 (Sc 2608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2608. Photostat copy of a memorial to Valentine Cook, and a “Celebration of the Rise of Camp Meetings Beginning On Muddy River, Logan County, Ky.” Also includes a paper by Walter Irvin Munday, Russellville, Kentucky, titled “Logan County’s Contribution to Methodism” read at the Valentine Cook Celebration.
Teel, Jacob, 1777-1835 (Sc 20), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Teel, Jacob, 1777-1835 (Sc 20), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 20. Two manuscript music books written by Jacob Teel of Allen County, Kentucky, a Methodist minister And a music teacher; and a biographical sketch of Teel, which includes Napier family information, written by Johncy W. Weldon in 1933.
Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferguson, Nora (Young), 1882-1969 (Mss 379), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 379. Personal and family correspondence, papers, and genealogical research materials of Nora (Young) Ferguson, a native of Richardsville, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes original land, estate and guardianship records, and other early county records which Mrs. Ferguson was permitted to remove from the Warren County Courthouse for microfilming prior to its renovation in 1957. Click on "Additional Files" below to see receipts from the Warren County "Poor House."
Daughters Of The American Revolution - Samuel Davies Chapter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Daughters Of The American Revolution - Samuel Davies Chapter - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 363), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 363. Records of the Samuel Davies Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes membership applications and data, minutes, yearbooks and financial records.
Drake Family Papers, 1804-1861 (Sc 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Drake Family Papers, 1804-1861 (Sc 192), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 192. Chiefly letters to Albrittain Drake and his wife, Ruth (Collins) Drake, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Most of the letters are from Drake and Collins family members, primarily their sons, James Perry, a land agent in Indiana, and Benjamin Michael, a Methodist minister in Mississippi. Also includes biographical and genealogical information related to the two families.
Bell Family - Correspondence (Sc 97), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bell Family - Correspondence (Sc 97), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 97. Letters, 1831-1871, mostly incoming from relatives and friends, written chiefly to Caleb N. Bell, Methodist minister of Todd County, Kentucky. The letters contain mainly family news and religious comments. Also biographical information.
Cain, Bevie Waughn, 1844-1883 (Sc 2251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cain, Bevie Waughn, 1844-1883 (Sc 2251), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2251. Letters (31) from Cain to James M. Davis, written mostly during the Civil War from her home and school in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, and from Illinois. A strong Confederate sympathizer, Cain responds to Davis’s support of the Union, criticizes President Abraham Lincoln, and opines freely on love, courtship and marriage. She also writes of mutual friends, family, and social and religious activities. Includes 3 additional letters to Davis from his father, sister, and a friend who writes of an opportunity to manage a store. Also includes …
Goodson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Metcalfe County, Kentucky (Sc 1301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Goodson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Metcalfe County, Kentucky (Sc 1301), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1301. Membership lists of Goodson Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. The church was later known as Summer Shade Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Green River Union Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 545), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Green River Union Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 545), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan ("Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 545. Minute book (some pages missing) of Green River Union Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes membership and pastors lists and church conference minutes 1879-1894. Also includes list of homecoming attendees 1958-1966, solicitation of contributions for upkeep, historical information and clippings.
Koger, Sara Jane (Crabtree), 1890-1991 - Collector (Sc 2172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Koger, Sara Jane (Crabtree), 1890-1991 - Collector (Sc 2172), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2172. Pastor's report from Charles Driver, "preacher in charge of Byrdstown Circuit" in Tennessee, 1900; family photographs (2); and incomplete letter from G.W. Franklin to Sara Jane Koger, his niece, giving information about his family.
New Bethel Society - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
New Bethel Society - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 763. Class and church book of New Bethel Methodist Society, Allen County, Kentucky. Consists almost exclusively of lists of members.
Society At Walker's Chapel - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 1296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Society At Walker's Chapel - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 1296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
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.
State Street Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2010), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
State Street Methodist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 2010), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2010. Monthly statement assessing amount due for "support of the Gospel," issued by State Street Methodist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky to Mrs. James A. Mitchell.
Brown Family Papers (Sc 1925), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Brown Family Papers (Sc 1925), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1925. Correspondence, news clippings, photographs and licenses related to the Brown family of Breckinridge County, Kentucky, particularly Johnie Brown, a World War I casualty, and Henry Brown, a Methodist minister in Kentucky.
James, Ora Nadine (Doyle), 1913-1998 - Collector (Sc 1772), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
James, Ora Nadine (Doyle), 1913-1998 - Collector (Sc 1772), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1772. Warren County deed, 1842; first bill received by George D. James's grocery store, Brownsville, Edmonson County, Kentucky, 1913; 1928-1931 autograph album and other items related to Brownsville High School; letter from Methodist minister Hoyt Parsley, Kyrock, Edmonson County, 31 October 1941; other miscellaneous items.
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.
Brown, Robert T., 1871-1939 (Sc 1351), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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.