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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

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

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

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

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

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.

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Pursuing Peace: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Chapel, Taylor University Jan 2010

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.

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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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

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.

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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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Wilson, Ansel, 1834-1912 (Sc 2145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Wilson, Ansel, 1834-1912 (Sc 2145), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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).

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Brown, George A., Jr. - Letter To (Sc 2148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Brown, George A., Jr. - Letter To (Sc 2148), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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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.

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Mitchell, George, 1842-1898 (Sc 2131), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

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.

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Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 - Collector (Sc 2138), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

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.

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Williams, Louis P., 1910-1937 (Sc 2143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Williams, Louis P., 1910-1937 (Sc 2143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2143. Paper titled: "Slavery in the Presbyterian Church" written for the class "History of the Lower South." Mr. Williams attended Western Kentucky State Teachers College from 1928 to 1933 and did graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, 1933.

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Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Sc 2142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Sc 2142), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2142. Typed biography titled "Julia Neal," which discusses the professional career of Mary Julia Neal (7 p.); two oral interviews with Neal conducted by Watkins which discuss Neal's career and particularly her work related to the Shakers at South Union, Kentucky; photocopy of Neal's first article on the South Union Shakers in 1926 also included.

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Middleswarth, Victoria (Sc 2129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Middleswarth, Victoria (Sc 2129), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2129. Abridged index compiled from Shaker Record A, 1804-1836; Shaker Record B, 1836-1864; and Journal of the North and East Families, 1888-1897, for a "Lunchtime Learning" program about Shaker food held at the Kentucky Library & Museum, Western Kentucky University.

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Bowling Green High School - Reunions, 1960 (Sc 2150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Bowling Green High School - Reunions, 1960 (Sc 2150), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2150. Correspondence related to the 1960 reunion of the Bowling Green High School class of 1940. The letters were chiefly written to one of the organizing committee members, Frances (Robinson) Russell of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Includes a list of class members.

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Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Sc 2141), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Watkins, Dianne (Winkler), 1941-2024 (Sc 2141), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2141. Oral interviews done with Appalachian writer Verna Mae Slone in which she discusses her life, her family, and her writing. Slone was a dollmaker, quilter, and quintessential storyteller.

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Morris, Hiram Chesterfield, 1880-1949 (Sc 2124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Morris, Hiram Chesterfield, 1880-1949 (Sc 2124), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2124. Legal papers, chiefly deeds and mortgages, related to land transfers among the Mitchell, Buckner, and Morris families of Simpson and Warren Counties. Also includes genealogical information concerning the Buckner, Morris, and Hegewald families.

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Gray, John H. (Sc 2136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2010

Gray, John H. (Sc 2136), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2136. Typewritten paper by John H. Gray, "Brief History of the Coal Industry in Western Kentucky and West Kentucky Coal Company." Includes a 1963 clipping relating to Gray's son.

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