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New Salem Baptist Church - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

New Salem Baptist Church - Simpson County, Kentucky (Sc 761), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 761. Minute book of New Salem Baptist Church, Simpson County, Kentucky. Includes church covenant, articles of faith, a brief historical sketch, minutes of meetings and membership lists.

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Welsh, James, D. 1825 (Sc 2161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Welsh, James, D. 1825 (Sc 2161), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2161. Extracts from a letter to the editor by Reverend Welsh of Lexington, Kentucky, as published in the "Connecticut Evangelical Magazine," September 1802, describing a recent religious revival in the Green River country.

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Goodhope Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Goodhope Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 760), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below" for Manuscripts Small Collection 760. Record book of Goodhope Baptist Church, Barren County, Kentucky. Includes constitution, articles of faith, minutes of meetings and membership lists.

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Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Butler County, Kentucky (Sc 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 612. Record book of Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Butler County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of meetings and lists of white and African American members. A typescript of the record book includes a short historical note and a list of pastors from 1805-1932.

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Mount Tabor Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Mount Tabor Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 2162), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2162. Minute book of Mount Tabor Baptist Church, Barren County, Kentucky, 1798-1870. Includes articles of faith, minutes of meetings, and lists of white and African American members.

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Davis, Martha Anne, 1936-2010 (Mss 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Davis, Martha Anne, 1936-2010 (Mss 303), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 303. Three volumes of autobiographical musings, generally in poetic form, related to the life of Martha Anne Davis, the producer of a comedy show titled "2 Funny" which aired on local access cable television in Bowling Green, Kentucky from 1991 to 2001. A title index to the writings is available, as well as one of Davis's business cards.

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Werst, Lillie Ann (Lyon), 1903-1976 (Sc 2140), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Werst, Lillie Ann (Lyon), 1903-1976 (Sc 2140), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full-text scan of 1918 diary (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2140. Chiefly five diaries kept by Werst from 1918 to 1970. 1918 diary describes her family’s auto trip from Washington state to California to work as agricultural laborers. 1961 diary relates her bus trip from Washington state to Kentucky and back. Also includes letters to Werst from family members related to the care of her son, 1934-1935; account book from an Olympic Peninsula boarding house, 1904-1905.

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Cook, Matthew Allen (Mss 302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Cook, Matthew Allen (Mss 302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 302. Matthew Allen Cook's drawings of some architectural elements of the Centre Family Dwelling, South Union, Kentucky. Includes dimensions and details of fireplaces, doors, windows, built-in cupboards, chair rails, and peg rails; also floor plans.

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Welborn, Annie E., B. 1869 (Sc 2160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Welborn, Annie E., B. 1869 (Sc 2160), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2160. "The Story of My Life," autobiographical essay by Annie E. Welborn, born in Todd County, Kentucky. She describes her early married life, farming, her children and grandchildren, and a trip to Montana and Washington.

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Stephenson, Bertha C., 1885-1977 (Sc 2159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Stephenson, Bertha C., 1885-1977 (Sc 2159), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2159. Letters (some incomplete) to Bertha C. Stephenson, of Milton, Trimble County, Kentucky, from friends, relatives and sweethearts in Kentucky, California and Florida. They write of gifts and photographs exchanged, mutual friends, travel, romances, and Stephenson's upcoming wedding. Includes a handwritten notice from the Board of Health requiring Stephenson and her pupils to be vaccinated in order to conduct school (click on "Additional Files" below for scan).

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New Bethel Society - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

New Bethel Society - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 763), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 763. Class and church book of New Bethel Methodist Society, Allen County, Kentucky. Consists almost exclusively of lists of members.

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Statenfield Sabbath School - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 1179), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Statenfield Sabbath School - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 1179), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1178. Minute book of Statenfield Sabbath School, Barren County, Kentucky, from 1892-1898. Includes minutes of meetings and a list of pupils. Also includes a 1990 newspaper clipping about restoration efforts for Statenfield Black Baptist Church.

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Beaver Dam Baptist Church - Edmonson County, Kentucky (Sc 620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Beaver Dam Baptist Church - Edmonson County, Kentucky (Sc 620), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 620. Record book of Beaver Dam Baptist Church, Rhoda, Edmonson County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of meetings and membership lists of whites and African Americans. Meetings frequently concern disciplinary actions against members.

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Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1016), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "additional files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1016. Record books of Trinity Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Warren County, Kentucky, 16 August 1895-30 March 1919. Includes minutes of meetings, membership registers, and statistical reports to the Presbytery.

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Mount Pleasant Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 1175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Mount Pleasant Baptist Church - Barren County, Kentucky (Sc 1175), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1175. Minute book of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Barren County, Kentucky. Includes minutes of meetings from 1804-1854 and members register of whites and African Americans. Also included is an 1863 letter describing the condition of the church.

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Wheatcroft, Eleanor Mae (Sc 2144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Wheatcroft, Eleanor Mae (Sc 2144), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Society At Walker's Chapel - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 1296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Society At Walker's Chapel - Allen County, Kentucky (Sc 1296), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Cane Springs Baptist Church Of Christ - Madison County, Kentucky (Sc 2157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Cane Springs Baptist Church Of Christ - Madison County, Kentucky (Sc 2157), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Gasper River Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Gasper River Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 2156), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Veterans Of Foreign Wars - John Hicks Post No. 1682 (Sc 2158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Veterans Of Foreign Wars - John Hicks Post No. 1682 (Sc 2158), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Mount Tabor Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Mount Tabor Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 2155), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Lucas Family Papers (Mss 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Lucas Family Papers (Mss 265), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Gilmer, Elizabeth Meriwether, 1861-1951 (Sc 2151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Gilmer, Elizabeth Meriwether, 1861-1951 (Sc 2151), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Mayes Family Papers (Sc 2153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Mayes Family Papers (Sc 2153), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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).

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Knight Commission Company (Sc 2154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Knight Commission Company (Sc 2154), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Avery, James Russell, 1921-2018 (Sc 2128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Avery, James Russell, 1921-2018 (Sc 2128), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Westerfield, William P., 1835-1916 (Sc 2139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Westerfield, William P., 1835-1916 (Sc 2139), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Manley Collection (Sc 2146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Manley Collection (Sc 2146), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Martin Family Papers (Sc 2152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Martin Family Papers (Sc 2152), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Wolford, Karen (Sc 2147), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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