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Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Sumner County, Tennessee (Sc 1592), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1592. Typescript of the membership list and minutes of congregational meetings from 30 August 1831 to 17 October 1852, for the Dryfork Cumberland Presbyterian Church located in Sumner County, Tennessee. The papers also contain a "Family Record" in which births, baptisms, marriages, and beginning/ending church membership dates are registered.

Dripping Spring Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1588. Photocopies of the records of Dripping Spring Baptist Church, Olmstead (Logan County), Kentucky, 14 December 1850-31 March 1900; includes name indexes. Also included is a 125th anniversary program for the church, which incorporates a brief church history and a drawing of the building.

Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 40. Fifty-three diaries (1859-1918) and other writings of Henry Clay Northcott, 1822-1918, Methodist circuit preacher and farmer of northern Kentucky; correspondence (1870-1883) of his daughter, music teacher Kate N. Thomas, 1850-1889; and her husband, Bruce F. Thomas, 1853?-1882, lawyer of Vanceburg, Kentucky.

New Friendship Baptist Church - Logan County, Kentucky (Mss 178), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 178. This collection consists chiefly of membership lists and minutes of the New Friendship Baptist Church of Logan, Kentucky, 1834-1877, 1898-1988. Also included is an 1895 history of the church, Articles of Faith, and Rules of Decorum for the congregation.

Reeder Family (Sc 1563), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1563. Genealogy records, 1830, removed from the Joshua Reeder family Bible, includes notes and an affidavit verifying ownership of the Bible.

Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1534), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1534. Church register for the Oakland Methodist Episcopal Church, South, located in southern Logan County, Kentucky, from December 1925 to April 1973. Register includes list of members, marriages, and baptisms. Also includes several news clippings.

Mcsween, Allen C., Jr. (Sc 1559), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1559. Sermon, "Mr. Lincoln's Religion," delivered by Allen C. McSween, Jr. at the Presbyterian Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Drakes Creek Baptist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1576), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1576. Membership list of Drakes Creek Baptist Church, Warren County, Kentucky, 4 April 1906.

Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church - Fountain Run, Kentucky (Sc 1456), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1456. Monroe County Circuit Court case involving members of the Fountain Run Missionary Baptist Church. The injunction enjoined certain members (or ex-members) from threatening, etc., those in the majority.

Shakers - Canterbury, New Hampshire (Sc 1459), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1459. Silhouette (5" x 7") of Canterbury, New Hampshire Shaker eldress Gertrude Soule, 1895-1988. Also, associated data.

Shakers - Canterbury, New Hampshire (Sc 1458), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1458. Silhouette (5" x 7") of Canterbury, New Hampshire Shaker eldress Bertha Lindsey, 1897-1990, and her dog Penny. Also, associated data.

Garrott, June Rose, 1932-2024 (Sc 1329), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1329. Newsletter, 1987, from Garrott, Beijing, China, to Sara Tyler, Bowling Green, Kentucky, reporting on her work in China. In 1961 she accompanied her medical missionary husband, Hobson Sinclair, to China, but through the years she taught English to Chinese students. Also associated data, 1961-1987 (3).

Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South - Logan County, Kentucky (Sc 1566), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1566. Record book containing register of pastors, 1905-1925, and church members, 1894-1946, for Pleasant Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, South located in Logan County, Kentucky. Also, original 1823 document conveying land for the meeting house, accounts of church conferences, and certificates of membership.

Flat Rock Methodist Church - Warren County, Kentucky (Sc 1325), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1325. Chiefly membership lists with some research notes, of the Flat Rock Methodist Church, Warren County, Kentucky. Includes copy of speech, about the church's history, given by Marietta Mansfield, 1995.

Durham, John G., 1813-1896 (Mss 9), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 9. Correspondence, diaries, receipts books, tax receipts, licenses receipts, church membership certificates, and miscellaneous receipts of John G. Durham, a Baptist minister of Warren County, Kentucky. Also legal papers of Allen County and Warren County, Kentucky. Correspondents include A. Broaddus, Samuel Howard Ford, George W. Robertson, and Orson Holland Morrow.

Adams County History 2008

Adams County History

No abstract provided.

2008 Morehead First Christian Church Echo Newsletter, First Christian Church Echo (Morehead, Ky.)

Morehead First Christian Church Newsletter Archive

Morehead First Christian Church Echo Newsletter from 2008.

2008 Morehead First Christian Church Board Of Directors Minutes, First Christian Church (Morehead, Ky.)

Morehead First Christian Church Records Archive

Morehead First Christian Church Board of Directors meeting minutes for 2008.

History Of Bethlehem United Methodist Church, Bishopville, South Carolina, Circa 1814-2008, John Kelley Segars, Dorothy Tedder Smith, Linda Haley Sutherland, Betty Brown Truesdale

Methodist Books

This story of Bethlehem United Methodist Church is compiled with much love and deep appreciation of those earlier dedicated Methodists who organized this Church and of those (including early church historians, newspaper editors, archives and courthouse employees) who shared information that is being used by the authors to write this revised version of her history.

While researching and recording this history, we discovered numerous church land conveyances, newspaper articles, 1878-1928 history of the Woman's Missionary Society of Bethlehem, other data that had not been recorded in prior histories, and numerous bits of information about events that occurred during 1990-2008. We …

South Union Messenger (Winter 2008), Kentucky Library Research Collections

South Union Messenger

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Expanding Horizons For American Lutherans: The Story Of Abdel Ross Wentz, Charles Hambrick-Stowe

Adams County History

Abdel Ross Wentz (1883-1976) of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg joked about his small physical stature but he was a giant of American Lutheranism, noted religious historian and theological educator, and exemplar of a great generation of church leaders working in national and world arenas from the 1920s through the 1950s. This biography by his son, himself a historian and seminary professor and president, traces Wentz’s life from childhood in Lineboro, Maryland through his significant career in Gettysburg and much wider circles to his retirement near the Seminary campus. Obviously a labor of love and written in a style …

Commending Religion To All Around Us: Baptist Church Discipline, 1780-1850, Claire White

Psi Sigma Siren

In 1818, a letter signed “B.” was sent to The American Baptist Magazine and Missionary Intelligencer. The letter, titled “Things to be set in order in the churches,” stated that the Baptists’ “moral and social habits, including [their] general intercourse with the world, must be such, as to commend religion to all around us.” While all religions fashion themselves pure and saintly, B., and his Baptist contemporaries, truly believed that their discipline and social habits, not just their internal piety, made them the world’s saviors. In the early decades of the nineteenth century, American Baptist congregations were flourishing. In 1740, …

Dwelling, Walking, Serving: Organic Preservation Along The Camino De Santiago Pilgrimage Landscape, Mercedes Chamberlain Quesada-Embid

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This study is an exploration of the people and the landscape of the well-known Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route. Although there are many routes that make up the entirety of the pilgrimage, this research is specifically focused on the landscape of the Camino Francés, or French Route, in northern Spain. The path has been written about in many ways and for a myriad of reasons since it became affiliated with the Christian tradition in the early ninth century. This research, however, is different. By way of an environmental history and hermeneutic approach, an investigation of the interrelated and overlapping human …

Archdiocese Of Santa Fe: Abuse Awareness Training For Adults, Hall & Monagle, Llc

Other Hall & Monagle Files

No abstract provided.

Tinsley, Warren Landrum, 1922-1987 (Sc 1549), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text (click on "Additional Files") for Manuscripts Small Collection 1549. A typescripted reminiscence about Warren Landrum Tinsley's World War II experiences in the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, a typescript of a diary kept during his military service , and a typescripted reminiscence about his early church experiences in Logan County, Kentucky.

Thomas Collection (Mss 31), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 31. Manuscripts, letters, writings, etc., of the Thomas family of Bowling Green, Kentucky, including sermons and speeches of Frank Morehead Thomas, Methodist minister (1868-1921); and poems, essays and newspaper articles written by his mother, Elizabeth (Wright) Thomas (1842-1931). Full-text scans are available (Click on "Additional Files" below) for the Spanish-American War letters that Frank Thomas sent home to his family.

Jewell, George Raleigh, 1898-1993 (Sc 1519), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1519. Correspondence between George Raleigh Jewell, Louisville, Kentucky, and George Franklin Dasher. Jewell was a student at Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky, when Dasher was president. The letters reminisce about the school and its alumni, and address various contemporary Baptist educational issues.

Walnut Street Baptist Church - Louisville, Kentucky - History, 1949-1965 (Sc 1521), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1521. Manuscript copy with corrections of "The History of Walnut Street Baptist Church, Louisville, Kentucky", 1949-1965. This was intended to be an addition to an earlier history of the church written by Bradley Thomas Kimbrough, Sr. in 1949.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 13, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 83, No. 10, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news.