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Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Smith Family Papers (Sc 2302), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid for Manuscripts Small Collection 2302. Chiefly letters from Barnett Smith, Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory and Camp Wheeler, Huntsville, Alabama to his mother in Hadley, Warren County, Kentucky, 1898. He describes his military training and ponders being shipped to Cuba. Also includes (Click on "Additional Files" below for scans) an 1865 letter from Union soldier James W. Howard of Butler County, Kentucky, Howard’s discharge certificate, an 1863 slavery bill of sale, and an 1873 receipt for a coffin.
Slaton Family Papers, 1760-1976 (Mss 322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Slaton Family Papers, 1760-1976 (Mss 322), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 322. Chiefly personal correspondence, legal and business papers, and news clippings related to the Slaton family of Hopkins County, Kentucky. Includes Civil War-era letters as well as deeds, wills, tax receipts, and other miscellaneous nineteenth century documents.