Crisp, John J., B. 1839? (Sc 416),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Crisp, John J., B. 1839? (Sc 416), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 416. Certificate, 5 August 1869, confirming voter registration of J.J. Crisp, issued by the Commissioner of Registration for Warren County, Tennessee.
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Songs (Sc 418),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Civil War, 1861-1865 - Songs (Sc 418), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 418. Holographic copy of the words of a Confederate song entitled “The Southern Wagon.” The song was composed during the Civil War as a parody of the song “Wait for the Wagon.” Author is unknown.
Gardenhire, Erasmus Lee, Sr., 1815-1899 (Sc 419),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Gardenhire, Erasmus Lee, Sr., 1815-1899 (Sc 419), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 419. Letter written by Erasmus Lee Gardenhire, Sr., Burkesville, Kentucky, to Dr. J.D. Hale, Nashville, Tennessee, requesting his aid in securing the restoration of his citizenship forfeited during the Civil War. On the reverse side, Hale addressed a note to the President [Johnson] requesting a pardon for Gardenhire.
Angel, E. M. (Sc 420),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Angel, E. M. (Sc 420), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 420. Notice, Greensburg, Kentucky, to the African-American men of the 4th Congressional District, asking for recruits with bounties being offered, and stating that if they do not volunteer, they will be drafted. Signed by E.M. Angel, Deputy Provost Marshal, 4th Congressional District.
Barry, G. E. & Company (Sc 421),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Barry, G. E. & Company (Sc 421), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 421. Circular letter, broadside, and envelope, from G.E. Barry & Company, Wilmington, Delaware, advertising a lottery for the benefit of the state of Delaware, 25 March 1861.
Warren County, Kentucky - Receipts (Sc 415),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Warren County, Kentucky - Receipts (Sc 415), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 415. Miscellaneous receipts from Warren County, Kentucky: carding business, 1855-56, dry goods store receipt and inventory, 1860, 1872, grocery, 1871, and freight business, 1868-1869. Also memo to county attorney asking that pistol be returned to the lawful owner, 1875.
Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909 (Sc 417),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Corbin, Henry Clark, 1842-1909 (Sc 417), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 417. Papers relating to Henry Clark Corbin's commission as a captain in the U.S. Army.
Kavanaugh, Benjamin T., 1805-1888 (Sc 2542),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Kavanaugh, Benjamin T., 1805-1888 (Sc 2542), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2542. Loyalty oaths of Benjamin T. Kavanaugh, taken before the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Missouri (1865) and the Register of Harris County, Texas (1868).
Caswell County, North Carolina - Weather (Sc 406),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Caswell County, North Carolina - Weather (Sc 406), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 406. Notes by an unknown observer of the weather in Caswell County, North Carolina, 25 December 1844 to 6 January 1845.
Kernes, Adam (Sc 388),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Kernes, Adam (Sc 388), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 388. Photocopy of a bill of sale of Adam Kernes, Russell County, Kentucky, to Bartholomew Helm, Russell County, for an enslaved African-American woman and her infant.
Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2540),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Crabb, Alfred Leland, Jr., 1919-2020 (Sc 2540), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2540. “Fifty Years in a One-Room School,” an account by Alfred Leland Crabb, Jr. of the teaching career of his grandfather James Wade Crabb in one-room schools, primarily in Butler and Warren counties in Kentucky. Includes data on the Crabb family, a copy of James W. Crabb’s Warren County teaching certificate, a list of Warren County schools, 1908-1919, and an early twentieth-century photo of Plum Springs Schoolhouse, Warren County. Also includes A. L. Crabb, Sr.’s account of a student’s last day at Plum Springs Schoolhouse.
Gilliland, Thomas, 1745-1814 (Sc 2537),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Gilliland, Thomas, 1745-1814 (Sc 2537), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2537. Letter, 29 December 1813, from Thomas Gilliland, Hardin County, Kentucky to his son Thomas in Warren County, Illinois. He endorses the wish of the younger Thomas to marry, as he is now of legal age.
Cossitt, Franceway Ranna, 1790-1863 (Sc 396),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Cossitt, Franceway Ranna, 1790-1863 (Sc 396), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 396. Letter from Franceway Ranna Cossitt, Princeton, Kentucky, to brother, Ambrose, Claremont, New Hampshire. He reflects on the death of their mother, describes his family, and relates his success and progress as president of Cumberland College, Princeton.
Skaggs Family Bible Records (Sc 392),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Skaggs Family Bible Records (Sc 392), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) typescript (clip on "Additional File" below) for Small Collection 392. Removed from Skaggs family Bible. Records of James Skaggs, 1789-1861, and his wife, Dorothy Dunham Skaggs, b. 1789, married 1810.
Guthrie, James, 1792-1869 (Sc 410),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Guthrie, James, 1792-1869 (Sc 410), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 410. Letter, from James Guthrie, Washington, D.C., to R.S. Fisher, New York City, stating that the Treasury Department does not have extra copies of documentation requested.
Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 (Sc 381),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 (Sc 381), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 381. Photostats of a Kentucky Legislature Resolution, 1812, signed by Governor Isaac Shelby; letters to President James Madison, 1814 (2) supporting the war with Great Britain; letters to General Andrew Jackson and others regarding Kentucky Volunteers for the war, 1814, 1815 (4); and papers concerning a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians, 1818 (2), accompanied by a copy of the joint report of Shelby and Jackson regarding the treaty, 1818.
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (Sc 384),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 (Sc 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 384. Photocopy of letter from Henry Clay, Washington, D.C., to Isaac Shelby, inquiring about the Indian title to the lands south of the Cumberland River in Kentucky which Clay thinks were purchased by Richard Henderson & Company from the Indians.
Scott, Charles, 1739-1813 (Sc 385),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Scott, Charles, 1739-1813 (Sc 385), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small collection 385. Photostats of a Kentucky Legislature Resolution, 1812, signed by Governor Isaac Shelby; letters to President James Madison, 1814 (2) supporting the war with Great Britain; letters to General Andrew Jackson and others regarding Kentucky Volunteers for the war, 1814, 1815 (4); and papers concerning a treaty with the Chickasaw Indians, 1818 (2), accompanied by a copy of the joint report of Shelby and Jackson regarding the treaty, 1818.
Harris, John (Sc 387),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Harris, John (Sc 387), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 387. Bill of sale of John Harris, Union County, Kentucky, to heirs of James Huston, Union County, for a Negro woman and her children.
Seay, Samuel (Sc 393),
2012
Western Kentucky University
Seay, Samuel (Sc 393), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 393. Manuscript excerpts from diary which was used as proof of marriage by Polly Grundy Seay in her application for a pension. Samuel Seay was a Revolutionary soldier who immigrated to Kentucky in 1793 and lived in the counties of Washington and Graves. Evidently, he later lived in Amelia County, Virginia.
