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Sodeman, Lowell Frazier, 1914-2003, & Mary Elizabeth (Ferguson) Sodeman (Sc 2628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sodeman, Lowell Frazier, 1914-2003, & Mary Elizabeth (Ferguson) Sodeman (Sc 2628), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2628. Letter of Lowell F. Sodeman, pastor of Shepherdsville Baptist Church, Shepherdsville, Kentucky, and his wife Mary, to Roy and Ruth Baucom, Raleigh, North Carolina. They reminisce about their previous fellowship at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church and relate news of their young daughter, Betty Albert, and of Mary’s high school teaching. Lowell also mentions his seminary studies.
Lytle, Priscilla (Sc 539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lytle, Priscilla (Sc 539), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 539. Paper written by Priscilla Lytle about the history of Georgetown College entitled “An Old College in a Young Country.” It may have been written for a class at Western Kentucky State Teachers College.
Mansfield, Marietta, 1917-2003 (Mss 426), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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
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.
Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan Presbytery - Kentucky (Mss 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan Presbytery - Kentucky (Mss 440), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Minute book of the Logan Presbytery, Kentucky, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 31 August 1813 to 10 October 1845 (bound typescript) with accompanying index, an original minute book from 2 October 1869 to 2 May 1887, and printed copies (2) of minutes which were not recorded in the book, 5 April 1878, and 14 May 1886.
Lawson, Alex Roger, 1858-1925 (Sc 758), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Lawson, Alex Roger, 1858-1925 (Sc 758), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 758. Letters (2) from Alex R. Lawson, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to Frank Coleman, Marshall, Texas, about his brother’s business, activities at the State Street Methodist Church, and a military band. Also miscellaneous envelopes and photocopy of Lawson’s obituary.
Salyers, Mary Alice, 1910-1998 - Letters To (Mss 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Salyers, Mary Alice, 1910-1998 - Letters To (Mss 430), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 430. Courtship letters sent to Mary Alice Salyers, Somerset, Kentucky from various suitors, chiefly Charles Duke Payne, a Christian minister and her future husband, Richard Allen Hays.
Barrow, David, 1753-1819 (Sc 517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Barrow, David, 1753-1819 (Sc 517), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and full-text of diary (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 517. Photocopy of a typescript diary kept by David Barrow, a pioneer Baptist minister, during his trip to Kentucky and the Northwest Territory of Ohio. He visited family members, often preached at religious gatherings, and observed peace negotiations between the United States and various Indian tribes at Fort Greenville. Beginning in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, he traveled through Pennsylvania, Kentucky, the Northwest Territory, Eastern Tennessee, and North Carolina, before returning to his home in Virginia.
Eads, Harvey Lauderdale, 1807-1892 (Sc 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Eads, Harvey Lauderdale, 1807-1892 (Sc 741), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 741. Holograph inscription by Harvey Lauderdale Eads to Thomas C. Calvert, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in a copy of Condition of Society; and Its Only Hope, In Obeying the Everlasting Gospel, as Now Developing Among Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing (Union Village, Ohio, 1847).
Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee Minutes - Kentucky (Sc 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of one document only (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 734. Minutes kept by the Logan Presbyterial Executive Committee composed of ladies' auxiliaries from the Kentucky counties of Logan, Simpson and Warren.
Munday, Walter Irvin, 1895-1965 (Sc 2608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Munday, Walter Irvin, 1895-1965 (Sc 2608), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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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.
Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Davison, Learner Blackman, 1813-1898 (Sc 718), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 718. Memoir of Learner B. Davison, a Methodist clergyman, originally of Grayson County, Kentucky, taken from the minutes of the 1898 Louisville Annual Conference; and a photocopy of a letter he wrote to a relative on the day he was killed by a train in Louisville, Kentucky, 29 June 1898.
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Helm, Margie May, 1894-1991 (Sc 2594), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2594. Miscellaneous letters to Margie May Helm and family members. Includes notecards and a postcard with Shaker themes. Also includes a letter to Jane Helm from a friend regarding rooming together in college, and a speech by Margie May Helm on the early history of the Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Dewitt, Marcus Bearden, 1835-1901 (Sc 2589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dewitt, Marcus Bearden, 1835-1901 (Sc 2589), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2589. Typescript copy (prepared in 1911) of Marcus Bearden DeWitt’s pocket memorandum book from March-June 1863 and May 1865. A chaplain with the 8th Tennessee Infantry (C.S.A), DeWitt chronicles conditions during the Civil War, including camp life, travel, family visits, and religion. Also includes “A Sketch of My Life," a short autobiography written by DeWitt, and a memorial written by one of his children.
Whitaker, Francis J., 1916-1994 (Mss 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Whitaker, Francis J., 1916-1994 (Mss 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 406. Correspondence, research notes and manuscript articles of Frances J. “Thomas” Whitaker, a Benedictine monk who lived and worked at St. Maur’s Priory, formerly the South Union Shaker Village in Logan County, Kentucky, from 1954-1988. He amassed a large collection of photocopied research material on the South Union community as well as other Shaker villages and museums in the United States. Also includes his research on various Catholic topics.
Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ferrell Family Papers (Mss 60), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 60. Correspondence of Thomas V. Ferrell, teacher and businessman, and of his wife, Winnie (58 items), and of their daughter Thelma (94 items), of Somerset, Kentucky; Ferrell family legal papers (7 items); notes of Thelma, who worked for the Somerset Journal for years; and miscellaneous receipts, clippings, etc.
Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 - Collector (Sc 490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Robertson, Gabrielle, 1889-1970 - Collector (Sc 490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 490. Butler County tax receipts, 1887, 1890 (2); Presbyterial treasurer’s receipts of Concord Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Logan Presbytery, 1899, 1901 (2); and postcard relating that Kentucky Synod will meet in Madisonville instead of Greenville due to an epidemic in Greenville, 17 September 1900.
Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Napier Collection (Sc 476), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 476. Letters, 1926-1952 (3), sermons and speeches (15), commencement program, 1913, memo books, 1920-1923 (2) of Baxter W. Napier, Sr., Methodist minister, 1882(?)-1971; Masonic tribute and receipt, 1895 (2) of I. S. Napier; and miscellaneous items, 1842, 1951 (8).
Danville, Kentucky - Churches - Christian (Sc 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Danville, Kentucky - Churches - Christian (Sc 477), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 477. Minute book of the Building Committee of the Reformed Church [Christian], Danville, Kentucky. Fire destroyed the building on 22 February 1860, and the minutes detail an account of the transactions, contributions, and expenses incurred in rebuilding.
Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slavery - Emancipation (Sc 455), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 455. Emancipation agreement made between Thomas McClean and the trustees of the United Society of Shakers, South Union, Kentucky, regarding the manumission of a black family (Joseph, Chloe, and George).
Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edmonds, Howell Nicholson, 1850-1923 (Sc 453), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below") for Manuscripts Small Collection 453. Letter, 9 February 1868, from Howell and John Edmonds, South Union, Kentucky, to their parents, in Tennessee, regarding their welfare. Howell and John were both enrolled at the school at South Union. Also a note informing the parents of the death of John, age 15, of spotted fever.
Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Miller, Jacob Tol, B. 1827 (Mss 414), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 414. Photocopies of Baptist minister Jacob Tol Miller’s original journal, as well as an annotated typescript. The journal details many aspects of a minister’s life during the period of camp meeting revivalism in the antebellum west from 1856-1887.
Shepherd, Walter, 1852-1933 (Sc 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shepherd, Walter, 1852-1933 (Sc 447), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 447. Letter from Walter Shepherd, Mount Lebanon, New York, to Roy G. Cooksey, Bowling Green, Kentucky, in reply to inquiry. Shepherd is sending materials about the Shakers for Cooksey’s use in preparing a talk on them, and also, he expresses his views on various aspects of Shakerism.
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shakers - South Union, Kentucky - Legal Papers (Sc 631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 631. Photocopies of legal papers pertaining to lawsuit brought by Sally Boles in which she sought and obtained a divorce from her husband William, who united with the Shakers in 1808 and left her and their three children to join the Shaker settlement at South Union, Kentucky, in 1811. The case was first tried in Logan County, then in Barren County.
Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woman's Missionary Society Of Hartford Baptist Church - Hartford, Kentucky (Sc 618), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan of representative sample (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 618. Record book of the Woman’s Missionary Society of the Hartford Baptist Church of Ohio County, Kentucky, which contains the constitution, by-laws and amendments, treasurer’s records, lists of members, and minutes. Also includes letters from ministers’ wives, 1899, 1929 (2), and Sunday School lessons printed in Chinese, 1929 (2).
First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
First Baptist Church - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 629. Associational letter sent by the First Baptist Church, Bowling Green, Kentucky, to the Warren Association of Baptists, containing the following lists: representatives at council meeting, ministers, membership, officers, Sunday School records, and financial table.
Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ku Klux Klan - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 639), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 639. Typescript notice issued by the Warren County Klan of the Ku Klux Klan of the realm of Kentucky concerning a scheduled meeting of their organization in the Opera House at Bowling Green that was canceled because of influence exerted by the Catholics and Jews in Bowling Green.
Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baughn, Milton L. (Sc 644), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 644. Photocopies of notes compiled by Milton L. Baughn while writing his book A People Called Cumberland Presbyterians, which was published in 1972. The notes concern the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (African American) in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Bay's Fork Association Of The Baptist Church - Kentucky (Sc 615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bay's Fork Association Of The Baptist Church - Kentucky (Sc 615), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 615. Index to minutes of Bay's Fork Association of the Baptist Church.
Kentucky Baptist Centennial Memorial Roll Book (Sc 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Baptist Centennial Memorial Roll Book (Sc 614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 614. A book of certificates which were sold for one dollar each to raise money for the Kentucky Baptist
Centennial Memorial Fund. The buyers were members of the Providence Knob Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Many unsold certificates are in the book.