Kentucky
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
Harry H. Martindale collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: G-072
Scope and Contents
This collection includes genealogical research, correspondence, and other matierlas primarily from Harry H. Martindale with lesser amounts included by Winfred L. Martindale and other researchers in the United States and England ranging from 1863 to 1984, regarding the Martindale, Maxey, Pearson, McCray, Howard, Hurt, and other related families.
Dates:
1863 - 1984
Found in:
Genealogy
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Harry H. Martindale collection
Helen Hudson papers
Collection — Folder S696
Identifier: S0696
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of typed transcripts of letters from various authors in Camp Morton, Indiana; Washington, D.C.; Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia ranging from 1861/07/12 to 1864/09/05 regarding family matters and army life.
Dates:
1974
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Helen Hudson papers
Hensley family collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: G-019
Scope and Contents
This collection contains research from Ruth Slevin and Evelyn Hensley regarding the Hensley Family. The collection includes, notebooks, family charts, group sheets, notes, and correspondence.
Dates:
n.d., 1940-1951
Found in:
Genealogy
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Hensley family collection
Hibben family papers
Collection
Identifier: L069
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, invitations and calling cards, accounts, stamps, newspaper clippings, membership cards, legal documents, and other papers, as well as photographs, negatives, lantern slides, artwork, textiles, and realia from members of the Hibben and Ketcham families in Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, and Europe ranging from circa 1840 to 1937 regarding family, military, legal, and social matters. Much of the early correspondence belonged to Sarah...
Dates:
circa 1840-1937
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Hibben family papers
Ignatius Brown papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1960
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed poems and writings, pencil drawings and official documents from Ignatius Brown and others in Indiana, New Orleans, Louisiana; Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee ranging from 1856 to 1861 and regarding life, Civil War battles, and a vessel clearance from port.There is also an oversize folder containing editions of newspapers including the Weekly Indiana Citizen, the Central Normal News,...
Dates:
1856-1861, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ignatius Brown papers
Isaac Shelby letter
Collection — Folder S1764
Identifier: S1764
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a photocopy of a letter and enclosures from C.S. Todd. The
enclosures describe Isaac Shelby’s involvement at King’s Mountain.
Dates:
1861
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Isaac Shelby letter
J. C. Thompson collection
Collection — Folder S1303
Identifier: S1303
Scope and Contents
The first item is an original letter on letterhead with "Our Union Defenders" and a picture of a soldier beside a cannon and stacked rifles. The letter was written in ink on January 30, 1862, from Lebanon, Kentucky, to J. C. Thompson's son Wesley, in Gilead, Miami County, Indiana. J. C. tells about the Battle of Mill Springs, in which General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer was killed on January 19, 1862. He wrote that the Confederates "run like wild horses running over and crippling one another in...
Dates:
1862-1957
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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J. C. Thompson collection
James M. Guthrie collection
Collection — Folder S1887
Identifier: S1887
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a family history of some of the first settlers of Lawrence County, Indiana beginning with John and Daniel Guthrie and their brothers-in-law, Jacob and William Flinn. The history begins with their move to Kentucky in 1809, followed quickly by their move into Indiana in 1811. The history discusses the construction of their settlement, Leesville, and includes a description of a Pottawatomie Indian raid which was the only major Indian conflict in the county. During the raid...
Dates:
1967
John Hamilton biography
Collection — Folder S0576
Identifier: S0576
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a handwritten biography of John Hamilton by his great-granddaughter, Mayme Jacobs (circa 1927). The biography relates brief family history; describes how Hamilton got into the whiskey making business; and describes the movements of General William Henry Harrison's forces from Terre Haute to Prophetstown prior to the Battle of Tippecanoe.
Dates:
circa 1927
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Hamilton biography
John Sipe and A.H. Phillips letters
Collection — Folder S1651
Identifier: S1651
Scope and Contents
This collection includes copies of 23 letters written by John Sipe to Sallie Phillips while he was serving with the 38th Indiana Infantry Volunteer Regiment during the American Civil War. The letters are dated from September 9, 1861 to December 24, 1862 and covers a vareity of subjects. The collection also includes one letter written from A. H. Phillips to his sister Sallie on July 6, 1864. This letter concerns his own daily experiences serving in the Civil War. Some of the places...
Dates:
1861-1864
