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Fitz-Hugh Family (Sc 2093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Fitz-Hugh Family (Sc 2093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2093. Correspondence and sundry notes related to the teaching careers of Thomas E. and Lillian fitz-Hugh, Covington, Kentucky. Also includes family correspondence related to settlement of the John Fitzhugh estate and the sale of his Logan County, Kentucky farm.
Baird, Henry Herring, 1902-1991 - Collector (Mss 279), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Baird, Henry Herring, 1902-1991 - Collector (Mss 279), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 279. Account books and other financial records related to Jenkins-Ryan Tobacco Company of Adairville, Kentucky. Also includes financial records associated with the farms and businesses operated by Thomas Henry Baird, Jr., as well as the 1941 monthly financial reports and a label from Scott Tobacco Company of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Spring Valley United Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 288), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spring Valley United Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 288), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 288. Minute books of Spring Valley United Baptist Church (formerly Pleasant Grove United Baptist Church), Logan County, Kentucky. Includes membership lists for white and black members. Typescripts, and name indexes for minute books included.
Greenwood Cemetery - Adairville, Kentucky (Sc 2022), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Greenwood Cemetery - Adairville, Kentucky (Sc 2022), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2022. Listing of the individuals buried in the Greenwood Cemetery at Adairville, Logan County, Kentucky; includes index.
Sumpter, Irene Malone (Moss), 1902-1996 (Mss 273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter, Irene Malone (Moss), 1902-1996 (Mss 273), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 273. Genealogical research material compiled by Mrs. Sumpter and her husband, Ward Cullin Sumpter. The focus of the collection is on their ancestral families, particularly the Morgan, Moss, Sumpter and Ward families.
Broadnax, Henry Powell, 1769-1857 (Sc 2029), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Broadnax, Henry Powell, 1769-1857 (Sc 2029), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2029. Will (1847) and codicils (1850, 1854, 1856) of Henry Powell Broadnax, Russellville, Kentucky, with depositions of two witnesses attesting to the will's authenticity.
Jackson Family Papers (Sc 2011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson Family Papers (Sc 2011), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2011. Legal papers of the Jackson family of Allen County, Kentucky, relating chiefly to property owned by Samuel Jackson. Includes wills and accounts, a teacher's register from 1881, and copies of family photographs.
Center Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 274), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Center Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 274), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 274. Records of Center Baptist Church, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of congregational meetings and membership lists. Indexes of the records for 1810 to 1877 are included.
Logan County, Kentucky - Red Cross (Sc 1957), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan County, Kentucky - Red Cross (Sc 1957), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1957. Chiefly letters from U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan thanking the Logan County, Kentucky Red Cross for the items they provided that were distributed to military personnel stationed there.
Adams, George Blakey, 1911-1985 (Sc 1691), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Adams, George Blakey, 1911-1985 (Sc 1691), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1691. Jacob and Martha Van Meter's 1874 obituary and description of their joint funeral. Also, 8 February 1913 letter to George Blakey Adams, San Diego, California, from his aunt Lue M. Adams related to their Logan County, Kentucky ancestor George Blakey.
Sullivan Family Collection (Mss 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sullivan Family Collection (Mss 267), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 267. Correspondence and clippings relating to home economics extension agents Rowena I. Sullivan and Margaret (Sullivan) Berg. Includes genealogical information relating to the Sullivan and Rogers families.
Harris, Hilary (Fa 461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Harris, Hilary (Fa 461), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 461. DVD: "Circle of Friends: Life and Times of Girls Scouts" produced by Hilary Harris for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Warren County, Kentucky - New Deal Programs, 1934-1935 (Mss 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - New Deal Programs, 1934-1935 (Mss 253), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 253. Documents related to New Deal relief programs in Warren County, Kentucky and surrounding counties; correspondence of Ida Leighton Hodges, Bowling Green, Area Administrator of the Kentucky Emergency Relief Administration.
Rose, Kibby (Fa 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rose, Kibby (Fa 437), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 437. Paper: "A Country Gentleman" written by Rose for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Rose, Gerald M. (Fa 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rose, Gerald M. (Fa 438), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 438. Paper: "Sharecropping" written by Gerald M. Rose for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Red River Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Red River Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 258), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 258. Copies of items related to the history of the church; items detailing the preservation efforts of the Red River Church Memorial and Cemetery Association; 1948 list of burials in the Old Red River graveyard.
Edwards Family Papers (Sc 1927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Edwards Family Papers (Sc 1927), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1927. Calendar of papers related to the Edwards family of Russellville, Kentucky, particularly Ninian Edwards who later emigrated to Illinois. The collection of 96 items is on microfilm and housed in the Kentucky Library.
White, Vernon, 1915-2008 (Mss 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
White, Vernon, 1915-2008 (Mss 255), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 255. Correspondence, research notes, slides, and photographs related to Vernon White's interests: covered bridges, hominy holes, archaeology, and grave covers, chiefly in Kentucky. Also includes drafts of his books and information about the White family of White Mills, Hardin County, Kentucky as well as information about White's participation in World War II. To view a selection of illustrative material from the White Collection go to this website: http://www.wku.edu/library/dlsc/vernonwhite.php
Dennin, Shannon And Jason Henning (Fa 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Dennin, Shannon And Jason Henning (Fa 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 383. Interview with Lennie B. Martin conducted by Shannon Dennin and Jason Henning for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class. Interview tape is not included. They discuss hunting and Logan County, Kentucky folk life.
Draper, Shirley (Fa 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Draper, Shirley (Fa 386), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of papers (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 386. Two papers: "Brush Arbors of Southern Logan County: How and Why They Were Made" and "South Logan County, Kentucky: Life in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" written by Shirley Draper for a Western Kentucky University folk studies class.
Rush, Grigsby, 1784-1845 And Martin Rush, 1816-1861 (Sc 1883), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Rush, Grigsby, 1784-1845 And Martin Rush, 1816-1861 (Sc 1883), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1883. Business papers, chiefly of Grigsby Rush and his son, Martin Rush, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes copies of deeds and slave bills of sale.
Becker, Mary Catherine, 1836-1907 (Sc 1803), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Becker, Mary Catherine, 1836-1907 (Sc 1803), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and selected scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1803. Social invitations sent to Misses Mary Catherine and Louisa Becker, Russellville, Kentucky. The majority of the invitations to Mary are from Churchill Haden Blakey, Auburn, Logan County, Kentucky, whom she later married.
Hobson Family Papers (Mss 121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson Family Papers (Mss 121), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 121. Correspondence, legal papers, and news clippings about the Hobsons, a prominent family of Bowling Green, Kentucky. The correspondence and reminiscences of Civil War veteran William E. Hobson; a diary kept by Mary Elizabeth Van Meter during the evacuation of Bowling Green, 1861; and correspondence of George Anna (Hobson) Duncan, an award winning trapshooter, are of particular significance. Also includes genealogical information about the Hobson and related families.
Orendorf, Jo Tilden, 1910-2003 (Sc 1874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Orendorf, Jo Tilden, 1910-2003 (Sc 1874), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1874. Transcription of a speech about the Red River Church, Logan County, Kentucky given by Jo Tilden "Top" Orendorf to the Russellville Woman's Club, 27 February 1988.
Bailey Collection (Sc 1862), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Bailey Collection (Sc 1862), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1862. Information related to the Bailey family of Logan County, Kentucky. Chiefly letters to Margaret Bailey, 1865, from her husband J.M. Bailey, U.S. consul in Glasgow, Scotland, and letters [1869?]-1896 from two friends in Great Britain.
Hamilton, Weston A. - Collector (Sc 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hamilton, Weston A. - Collector (Sc 118), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 118. Militia drill meeting notice scheduled in Russellville, Kentucky, 1818; slave bill of sale, Logan County, Kentucky, 1860; a young woman’s letter to a friend, 1875; letter written by Kate Bosher, 1910; and letter written by Cale Young Rice, 1926, regarding biographical data, with a postscript by Alice Hegan Rice.
Shaw, Henrietta Fannie, 1839-1917 - Letters To (Sc 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Shaw, Henrietta Fannie, 1839-1917 - Letters To (Sc 112), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 112. Chiefly letters from girl friends of Henrietta Fannie Shaw, Logan County, Kentucky, 1863-1867, a slave bill of sale, 1863, and miscellaneous writings.
Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1702), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1702. News clippings and copies of documents related to the history of Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcoal Church, South located in Logan County, Kentucky.
Taxation - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taxation - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 83), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 83. Holographic copy, 4 May 1822, of aggregate statement of federal taxes paid within the 6th District of Kentucky, which evidently included Logan County, accompanied by a certificate affirming Stephen Pleasonton as acting Commissioner of Revenue and signed by John Quincy Adams, U.S. Secretary of State, 21 October 1822.