Wheatcroft, Eleanor Mae (Sc 2144),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Wheatcroft, Eleanor Mae (Sc 2144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2144. Diary kept by Eleanor Mae Wheatcroft, 1948-1952, while a high school student in Dayton, Pennsylvania and a first semester freshman at Western Kentucky State College. She writes of her family and friends, the weather, her schoolwork, and chores. Includes a floral card, photo, and a list of motion pictures seen, 1951-1951.
Society At Walker's Chapel - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 1296),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Society At Walker's Chapel - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 1296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1296. Typescript of the Class Book (membership register) of the Society at Walker's Chapel (now Walker's Chapel United Methodist Church), Allen County, Kentucky. Includes a foreword with historical information, and an index of names.
Cane Springs Baptist Church Of Christ - Madison County, Kentucky (Sc 2157),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Cane Springs Baptist Church Of Christ - Madison County, Kentucky (Sc 2157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2157. Typescript of the minute books of Cane Springs Baptist Church of Christ, Madison County, Kentucky. Includes church covenant, meeting minutes 1838-1881 (pp. 10-49), 1803-1841 (pp. 50-96), 1883-1896 (pp. 97-112), and membership lists.
Gasper River Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2156),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Gasper River Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2156. Minute book of Gasper River Presbyterian Church, Gasper, Logan County, Kentucky. Includes session minutes, members register, and some annual statistics reported to the presbytery.
Veterans Of Foreign Wars - John Hicks Post No. 1682 (Sc 2158),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Veterans Of Foreign Wars - John Hicks Post No. 1682 (Sc 2158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2158. Certificate of Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States authorizing establishment of John Hicks Post No. 1682 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Certificate lists the names of 44 African Americans constituting the post.
Mount Tabor Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2155),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Mount Tabor Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2155. Minute book of the Mount Tabor Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes membership registers.
Pursuing Peace: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Chapel,
2010
Taylor University
Pursuing Peace: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Chapel, Taylor University
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Programs and Schedules
The program for the Pursing Peace: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. chapel in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Lucas Family Papers (Mss 265),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Lucas Family Papers (Mss 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and photograph (additional file) for Manuscript Collection 265. Correspondence, legal and financial papers, genealogical material, and photographs of the Lucas family of Warren County, Kentucky. Most of the material relates to Nathaniel Lucas (d. 1807 in Warren County), his children, and one of his descendants, Miss Nancy Clyde Lucas.
Gilmer, Elizabeth Meriwether, 1861-1951 (Sc 2151),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Gilmer, Elizabeth Meriwether, 1861-1951 (Sc 2151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2151. Materials relating to Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer, a Montgomery County, Tennessee native, who wrote a syndicated advice column under the name “Dorothy Dix.” Includes clippings, magazine articles, photos, Christmas greetings, three letters to family members, and an album containing photos of her husband’s turpentine and tar refinery in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mayes Family Papers (Sc 2153),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Mayes Family Papers (Sc 2153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2153. Miscellaneous materials, primarily deeds and recording clerks' certificates, relating to the Mayes family of Barren County, Kentucky and associated families. Includes Memorial Day gravesite photo and 1903 school program. Also includes Civil War soldier's letter written from Davidson County, Tennessee, 16 March 1862 (Click on "Additional Files" below for scan).
Knight Commission Company (Sc 2154),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Knight Commission Company (Sc 2154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2154. Letter from Knight Commission Company, Louisville, Kentucky, to Emerson Nale, Salem, Indiana, soliciting consignments of livestock and quoting market prices for steers, cows, "bologna bulls," calves, hogs, sheep and lambs.
Avery, James Russell, 1921-2018 (Sc 2128),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Avery, James Russell, 1921-2018 (Sc 2128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2128. "My Story," the autobiography of James Russell Avery, a Hardin County native, prepared as a project of WKU gerontology student Shaylin Gimborys. Includes illustrations and genealogical information on the Avery family.
Westerfield, William P., 1835-1916 (Sc 2139),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Westerfield, William P., 1835-1916 (Sc 2139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Microfilm copy of professional diaries kept by Westerfield, a Rochester, Kentucky physician, for 1895, 1900, 1902, 1904, 1908 and 1910-1915. The diaries record weather conditions and local fires as well as births, marriages, deaths, accidents, illnesses and surgery in which Westerfield was professionally involved. Includes a typescript with biographical information, description of the diaries, and listings of the births, marriages, deaths, operations, accidents, illnesses and fires recorded therein.
Manley Collection (Sc 2146),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Manley Collection (Sc 2146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2146. Undertaking account book, undertaker's licenses (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans), and other related items from the Philip R. Manley & Brother Funeral Home in Rochester, Butler County, Kentucky.
Martin Family Papers (Sc 2152),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Martin Family Papers (Sc 2152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2152. Letters, receipts, legal documents, bills, and notes of the Elbridge G. Martin family of Allen County, Kentucky. A number of the items relate to the settlement of the Benjamin Pulliam estate.
Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2147. Paper: "Jennie Green: Portrait of a Progressive Kentucky Woman" written by Karen Wolford for a Western Kentucky University history class.
Wilson, Ansel, 1834-1912 (Sc 2145),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Wilson, Ansel, 1834-1912 (Sc 2145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2145. Three letters regarding the Civil War pension of Ansel Wilson, Grayson County, Kentucky, who served with the 17th Kentucky Infantry (Union).
Brown, George A., Jr. - Letter To (Sc 2148),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Brown, George A., Jr. - Letter To (Sc 2148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2148. Letters (2) written to George A Brown, Jr., Nashville, Tennessee, from two friends serving overseas during World War II; one was in Germany and the other was in the Pacific.
Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2131. Receipt book kept by George Mitchell, deputy clerk of the Warren County Court [Kentucky]; entries list amount paid to record deeds and to copy deeds, mortgages, and other documents. Payments were also received by C.E. Blewett, clerk.
Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 - Collector (Sc 2138),
2010
Western Kentucky University
Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 - Collector (Sc 2138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2138. Copies of clippings from a late-nineteenth century Warren County, Kentucky scrapbook, probably kept by a member of Moates's family. Includes obituaries, poems, recipes, and essays.
