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Fisk, Robert (Sc 403), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 403. License, Whitley County, to perform marriages as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Twelfth Street Church Of Christ - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Mss 408), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 408. Directories, programs, newsletters, news clippings, and land records of the Twelfth Street Church of Christ, Bowling Green, Kentucky (known after 2002 as Lost River Church of Christ). Also includes information about other Churches of Christ in Warren County, Kentucky, as well as Potter Bible College and Potter Orphan Home in Bowling Green.

Moore, Nancy Elam, 1807-1889 (Mss 405), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 405. Journal of Nancy Elam Moore, an eldress of the Shaker colony at South Union, Kentucky, describing life in the colony during the Civil War, 1861-1863, especially visitation and exploitation by both Union and Confederate forces. Includes a diary of unknown authorship recording daily life at the colony in 1866. The original diary is owned by the Dayton [Ohio] Public Library.

Missionary Societies - Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 323), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 323. Typed copy of “The History of the Logan Presbyterial [sic] Missionary Auxiliary Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1796-1955,” written by Mrs. Joseph Rogers and Mrs. Henry A. Reeder; and of auxiliary notes compiled by Margaret Hampton for 1955-1958.

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 317), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 317. Miscellaneous business papers of the Shakers, including letters, 1884, 1915 (2);an agreement with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for the location of a depot at South Union, 1860; deeds, 1883, 1893 (2); bond, 1883; and receipts, 1884, 1906 (2).

Manire, Lucy (Sc 316), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 316. Letter written by Lucy Manire, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, to Lucy Shannon, South Union, Kentucky, expressing thanks for hospitality extended to her.

Mcintire, Tandie Lewis, 1865-1947 (Mss 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscript Collection 396. Correspondence to family, friends, and acquaintances of Tandie Lewis McIntire, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Collection contains educational material related to McIntire's career as a teacher in Edmonson County. Also includes tracts and pamphlets related to McIntire's involvement in religious organizations, particularly Baptist entities.

Korn, Mike (Sc 2516), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text transcription (click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2516. Interview conducted by Mike Korn and a Mr. Starks with Reverend Earl J. Jackson, Bowling Green, Kentucky in reference to the religious and educational work of Reverend Henry David Carpenter.

Supernatural Experiences (Fa 74), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scans of two out of thirteen papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 74. [Supernatural Experiences] Project completed by Western Kentucky University students for a folk studies class taught by Lynwood Montell. Collection focuses on short supernatural events experienced by informants. Subjects include dreams, ghosts, Ouija boards, sleepovers, church experiences and others.

Mcgready, James, 1758-1817 (Sc 370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 370. Letters (2), Henderson County, Kentucky, to Archibald Cameron, Shelby County, Kentucky. Concerns matters relative to the Presbyterian Church of which they were ministers and especially discusses the influence of Shakerism in Logan County, Kentucky.

Shakers - South Union, Kentucky (Sc 362), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 362. Instructions of the church (1), 1844; miscellaneous receipts (4), 1870-1896; newspaper wrapper (1), 1896; weather record for December, 1896; record of illness of Annie Ingram, 1910; and Shaker hymn, n.d.

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.

Shakers (Sc 358), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 358. Typed copy of letter written by Urban E. Johns, South Union, Kentucky, to Honorable McLean, Washington, D.C., regarding sheep husbandry in Logan County and South Union; a hymn (with words and music); reward certificates given to deserving pupils by teachers; and a list of members of the Brick House and the Square House, Union Village, Ohio, during the 1837-1867 period.

Shakers - South Union, Ky. (Sc 357), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 357. Holographic letters, 1893-1922 (3); words (2) and words and music to Shaker hymns (3); receipts, n.d. (3); and notes about the Shakers compiled by Pauline Smith for a speech about the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky.

Shakers (Sc 356), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 356. Letters, 1834-1851 (6), of the Shakers, chiefly of South Union, Kentucky, concerning the seed industry, religious affairs, economic conditions, wagon blueprint, etc., and receipts, 1868, 1870 (2).

Minute Books - Sunday Schools (Sc 350), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only and scan (Click on "additional files" below) Manuscripts Small Collection 350. Book of the recording secretaries for Salem Baptist Sunday School, 1856-1857, and for Lebanon Baptist Sunday School, 1859-1862, both of Butler County, Kentucky.

Fairleigh Family Papers (Sc 349), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 349. Class book, 1839-1844, of the Methodist Church, Brandenburg, Kentucky, containing membership list, 1843-44, and some notations of contributions. Also, it contains law and minutes of the Belles Lettres Society, 1849-1850, and of the Union Debating Society, October 1852. The book was kept by Thomas Fairleigh and other Fairleigh family members.

Carpenter, Tom W. (Sc 247), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 247. Letter, 15 February 1895, to Mrs. Nellie Thomas, Bowling Green, Kentucky from Tom W. Carpenter, treasurer of the Methodist church, related to her $1.00 subscription for liquidating the indebtedness of the church and parsonage. Letter sent in Carpenter’s business envelope identifying him as an agent for various manufacturers of pianos and organs.

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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Defense Service Council - Muhlenberg Presbytery Committee (Sc 283), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 283. Correspondence, financial records and reports relating to services provided to personnel of nearby military camps by the Muhlenberg Presbytery Committee of the Defense Service Council.

Jenkins, Greg (Fa 33), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Collection 33. [Prison ministry] Interviews conducted with Overt Ray Rich by Greg Jenkins about his work with prison ministries for a folk studies class at Western Kentucky Univeristy. Contains index, tape summary, transcirpts, comments.

Anti-Slavery And Church Schism Among Protestants In Antebellum Central Kentucky, Lance Justin Hale

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This thesis is an examination of the effects of anti-slavery and church schism among Protestant Christians in the Bluegrass region of antebellum Kentucky. A variety of secondary and primary sources are utilized, including books and journal articles from current scholarship, journals kept by historical actors, books, letters, and articles, written during or some years after the time under consideration, as well as publications of churches and denominations. Throughout the antebellum years, churches and denominations in the United States fractured over disagreements on slavery and theology. Pastors, such as James Pendleton and Peter Cartwright, endeavored to keep Christianity vibrant and relevant …