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FA Finding Aids

2017

Epitaphs

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Woolsey, Kennaird E. (Fa 1093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2017

Woolsey, Kennaird E. (Fa 1093), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1093. Student folk studies project titled: “Epitaphs,” which includes survey sheets of gravestone epitaphs organized by theme in Barren County, Edmonson County and Warren County, Kentucky. Survey sheets may include the epitaph, location and text classification along with the rubbing.


Mullins, Sharman (Fa 1062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2017

Mullins, Sharman (Fa 1062), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1062. Paper titled “At Rest” in which Sharman Mullins collects inscriptions found on gravestones in family plots, as well as church cemeteries and public cemeteries in Warren County and Logan County in Kentucky. Mullins also discusses aesthetics and the recurrent religious and familial themes inscribed upon the grave markers.


Tassie, Susan (Fa 1053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2017

Tassie, Susan (Fa 1053), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1053. Paper titled “Religion in the Folk Society” in which Susan Tassie highlights the importance of religious belief, narrative, and practice in a specific community. Paper is based on information gathered from family members, local congregations, and Tassie’s first-hand experiences at several church services.


Withers, Martha L. (Fa 1046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2017

Withers, Martha L. (Fa 1046), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 1046. Short paper titled “Epitaphs” in which Martha L. Withers discusses her efforts to collect epitaphs from several small cemeteries in Ohio County and Warren County, Kentucky. The only ones in the collection are from Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church Cemetery on Three Springs Road in Warren County, Kentucky.