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Page, Tate Cromwell "Piney," 1908-1984 (Fa 1397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Page, Tate Cromwell "Piney," 1908-1984 (Fa 1397), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1397. Papers of Page, former Dean of the College of Education at Western Kentucky University, primarily concerning his work documenting the people, places, history and folklore of the Ozarks region in Arkansas where he was raised. Also includes his photographs of historic structures, made mostly in western Kentucky.
Taylor Family Houses - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Taylor Family Houses - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3268), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3268. Collection of genealogical and historic research on four Taylor family houses located in Warren County, Kentucky. Includes data on original owners and residents, deeds, and photographs.
Smith Family Papers (Sc 3679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith Family Papers (Sc 3679), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3679. Two items relating to the Smith family of Warren County, Kentucky: a letter, 18 November 1852, from Amanda M. F. Withers, Dripping Spring, Edmonson County, Kentucky, to Sarah Hampton in Warren County; having recently moved, she describes her labors setting up housekeeping, gives regards to her friends and Sarah’s family, advises Sarah to be careful in choosing a husband, and asks to be sent some plant cuttings. Also, a codicil to the will of Sarah’s future father-in-law Daniel C. Smith, 1868.
Hodge, James H., 1843?-1924 (Sc 3675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hodge, James H., 1843?-1924 (Sc 3675), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scans and typescripts (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3675. Letters (3), written by James Hodge to his mother in Warren County, Kentucky, while serving with the 11th Kentucky Infantry, U.S.A. Writing from Tennessee just before the Battle of Bean’s Station, and from Kentucky and Georgia, he tells of engaging the enemy at Knoxville, of enduring "hard times" and reduced rations, and of his wish to return home to see her. Includes his 1924 obituary.
Kirby Family Papers (Mss 749), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kirby Family Papers (Mss 749), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 749. Papers of the Kirby family of Warren County, Kentucky, especially Sarah Jane “Jennie” Kirby, her son Percy Warren Kirby, and his grandson Joseph W. Harris. Includes some genealogical data collected by Jennie.
Kirby, Sarah Jane "Jennie" (Whalen), 1863-1918 (Sc 3674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kirby, Sarah Jane "Jennie" (Whalen), 1863-1918 (Sc 3674), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3674. Memoranda by Jennie Kirby, Warren County, Kentucky, of local deaths from 1899-1916. Using a blank Poll Book, she inscribes names, date of death, and in most cases the cause of death. African Americans and whites are included. Records of births, 1910-1911, are at the back of the book.
Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. John, A Slave (Sc 3653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Commonwealth Of Kentucky V. John, A Slave (Sc 3653), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3653. Record from the Warren County (Kentucky) Equity and Criminal Court, of John, a slave, charged with the murder of Harriet Porter, the wife of his owner Uriah Porter. After being convicted in Allen County, John was granted a new trial at which he was acquitted.
Logan, Leland Hallowell, 1905-1980 (Mss 744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Logan, Leland Hallowell, 1905-1980 (Mss 744), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 744. Correspondence and papers of Bowling Green, Kentucky attorney Leland H. Logan. Includes some personal material regarding his law practice and draft status, diaries for 1944 and 1945, and a small group of files representing his legal work, especially for the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation.
Farmer Cultural Awareness Project (Fa 1388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Farmer Cultural Awareness Project (Fa 1388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1388. Audio interviews with farmers in the ten-county Barren River Area Development District (BRADD) of Kentucky regarding their experiences as farmers, conducted as part of a project to raise awareness and understanding among the non-farming public. Includes brief biographical data (Click on "Additional Files" below), interview transcriptions, and photographs.
Warren County, Kentucky Court Records - Ministers' Bonds (Sc 3643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky Court Records - Ministers' Bonds (Sc 3643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3643. Surety bonds, 1800-1838, given for ministers in connection with licenses to perform marriages in Warren County, Kentucky.
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Mss 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Court Records (Mss 739), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 739. Various records of the Warren County, Kentucky Court relating to roads, bridges, wills and estates, land boundaries, taxation, stray animals, and other matters of law and local government. Most date from the first half of the 19th century.
Letcher, Robert Perkins, 1788-1861 (Sc 3642), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Letcher, Robert Perkins, 1788-1861 (Sc 3642), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3642. Notice, 10 September 1840, to Kentucky County Courts from Governor Robert P. Letcher advising of the availability, through the Keeper of the Kentucky Penitentiary, of sets of standard weights pursuant to legislation approved in 1839. The notice also offers surplus sets of weights and accessories.
Steen, Jennifer (Hines), B. 1949 - Collector (Mss 738), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Steen, Jennifer (Hines), B. 1949 - Collector (Mss 738), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 738. Genealogical data, family papers and photographs collected by Jennifer (Hines) Steen on the Hines, Duncan, Covington and Nicholls families of Kentucky, and related families.
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Hobson, Edward Henry, 1825-1901 (Mss 736), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 736. Photocopied correspondence of Brigadier General Edward H. Hobson of Greensburg, Kentucky. Letters from his family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, fellow soldiers, colleagues and citizens of Greensburg cover his Mexican War and Civil War service, his business ventures, and attempts to win political office. Includes Hobson's memoranda of actions against Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan in 1864, a list of prisoners taken from Morgan's and other brigades, and a letter from Hobson's nephew deploring an 1892 lynching in Bowling Green, Kentucky (Click on "Additional Files" below).
Greenwood Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Greenwood Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3630), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3630. Record book, 1 September 1880-March 1884, of Greenwood Presbyterian Church, located near Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes organizing and session minutes.
Woodburn Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woodburn Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3634. Record book, March 1868 February 1896, of Woodburn Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes, register of members, and reports to Presbytery. Also includes a 1902 minute and a 1915 letter regarding dismissal of a member.
Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3632), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3632. Record book, March 1870- March 1895, of Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church, located on Three Springs Road, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes, registers of members, baptisms and marriages, and reports to the Presbytery. Also includes two certificates of dismissal, 1903, 1905.
Corinth Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Corinth Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3633), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3633. Record book, March 1905 1906, of Corinth Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky, and 1906-March 1932, of Corinth Presbyterian Church. Includes minutes, registers of members, pastors and baptisms, and reports to Presbytery.
Old Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Old Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 3631), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3631. Record book, April 1903 November 1906, of Old Union Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky, and April 1907-March 1916, of Old Union Presbyterian Church. Includes minutes, members registers, and remarks concerning a 1903 fire that destroyed earlier records of the church, said to be organized about 1814.
Jackson, Harry Lucellus, 1907-1985 (Mss 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Jackson, Harry Lucellus, 1907-1985 (Mss 171), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 171. Correspondence and papers of Harry L. Jackson, a Warren County, Kentucky native and Cleveland, Ohio executive. Includes his World War II correspondence, genealogical research, and papers of his wife Evelyn’s family, the Minshalls of Ohio.
Sumpter Family Collection (Mss 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sumpter Family Collection (Mss 735), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 735. Correspondence and papers of the family of Captain Charles Ward of Plymouth, New Hampshire, including descendants in the Sumpter family of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Warren County, Kentucky - Roads (Sc 3629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky - Roads (Sc 3629), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3629. “A list of hands to be allotted on the road from Wm R Paynes mill to the Nashville Road at Abner Evins’s on a direction to Warren Court House.” The February 1812 document lists the names of 37 citizens assigned to the work, with an “order to warn all such persons as are not on this list who are living within two miles of sd Road and not allotted on other Roads.”
Moulder-Campbell Family Papers (Mss 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moulder-Campbell Family Papers (Mss 734), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 734. Correspondence and papers of the Moulder, Campbell and related families of Warren County, Kentucky. Includes genealogical data.
Moore, George, 1771-1812, And Robert Moore, D. 1819 (Sc 3614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Moore, George, 1771-1812, And Robert Moore, D. 1819 (Sc 3614), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3614. Warren County, Kentucky court documents pertaining to or signed by brothers George and Robert Moore, considered to be the founders of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes summons issued by George Moore as Justice of the Peace; receipts; settlements of accounts; and a bond given in connection with an attachment.
Us 31w Resource Inventory - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Us 31w Resource Inventory - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 726), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 726. Historic resource inventory (data sheets and photographs) of structures and sites along US Highway 31W in Warren County, Kentucky. The inventory and photos were prepared in 2000, but data sheets from earlier inventories and other supporting material may be included.
Southern Kentucky Fair - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Southern Kentucky Fair - Warren County, Kentucky (Mss 724), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 725. Correspondence, planning documents, financial and other records of the Southern Kentucky Fair, Warren County, Kentucky. Much of the material relates to the procurement of equipment and arrangements for entertainment--rides, bands, circus and novelty acts, livestock shows, etc.--as well as for concession booths and exhibits.
Peridot Pictures - Bowling Green-Warren County Bicentennial Film (Mss 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Peridot Pictures - Bowling Green-Warren County Bicentennial Film (Mss 715), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 715. Proposal, script materials, correspondence, publicity, interviews and other items relating to the production of a film for the Bowling Green-Warren County (Kentucky) bicentennial by Peridot Pictures and the Landmark Association of Bowling Green.
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Letters To (Sc 3593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 - Letters To (Sc 3593), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3593. Two letters to Cora Jane Spiller, Bowling Green, Kentucky: from a recently widowed friend with a photograph enclosed; and from an unnamed Missouri man telling of his visit to ancestral cemeteries in Kentucky.
Warren County, Kentucky Tax List (Sc 3581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Warren County, Kentucky Tax List (Sc 3581), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3581. Partial list of white taxpayers for Warren County, Kentucky, 1875. Surnames listed begin with A, B, C, H, V, and W. Data on taxpayers varies; in some cases it includes the name of the nearest resident.
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 (Sc 3582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Spiller, Cora Jane (Morningstar), 1928-2020 (Sc 3582), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3582. Materials relating to applications for historical highway markers for various sites in Warren County, Kentucky, in the period during which Cora Jane Spiller and her husband Robert E. Spiller of Bowling Green served as county chairmen for the program. Includes correspondence with the Kentucky Historical Society, together with some applications and supporting materials, correspondence with cost underwriters, and dedication programs. Also includes a small amount of correspondence relating to repair of existing markers.