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Jennie Jeffers Ashby Papers, 1895-1950

By Kristy Melton

Collection Overview

Title: Jennie Jeffers Ashby Papers, 1895-1950

Creator: Ashby, Jennie Jeffers (1883-1972)

Extent: 0.22 Cubic Feet

Date Acquired: 07/09/1980

Languages: English [eng]

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Jennie Jeffers Ashby papers are useful for researchers studying education, especially in Muhlenberg and Ohio counties. Mrs. Ashby writes about her teaching career and the schools where she taught. She also kept photographs from many of those schools. As an alumni of Kentucky State Normal School Eastern Division (now Eastern Kentucky University) she also writes about faculty and events while she was there. Strong points of the collection are the school photographs and her memoir in which she describes her days at Eastern and her teaching career.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Source: Ashby, Harold

Other Note: Photographs were initially numbered with the accession number; however, a decision was made to change to collection number. The database was changed, but the numbers written on the images were not changed.

Box and Folder Listing

Box 1Add to your cart.
Barcode: 31234014031338
Folder 1: Correspondence, 1907-1970Add to your cart.
Correspondence regarding Mrs. Ashby's teaching certificates, letters of recommendation and personal correspondence regarding the death of friends. (9 documents)
Folder 2: Financial RecordsAdd to your cart.
Financial records showing salary, retirement and tax information. (5 documents)
Folder 3: Personal Writings, undatedAdd to your cart.View associated digital content.
Manuscripts and poetry written by Mrs. Ashby including her autobiography, a eulogy for Mollie Reynolds, a history of Greenville School, her memories of the Great Depression, and poems written about people and events in her life. (27 documents)
Folder 4: Teachers Association, undatedAdd to your cart.
Muhlenburg County, Kentucky Teachers Association proposed constitution. (1 document)
Folder 5: News Clippings, undatedAdd to your cart.
News clippings about Mrs. Ashby and letters to the editor from her. (4 documents)
Folder 6: Photographs, 1901-1947Add to your cart.View associated digital content.
Photographs of family members, friends, school events where she taught and class photographs. School photos include a 1912 school fair at Pleasant Hill School, Centertown School, 1928, new and old Dovey School, 1909 and 1910, Walton's Creek School, 1932, Central Point School's Helpers Club, ca 1910, Drakesboro School (faculty and students), 1947, Greensville High School, 1901.
Item 1: Jennie Jeffers Ashby (back row, first from left) with her class from Waltons Creek School, 1932Add to your cart.
Creator: Schroeter
Physical Description: 5x7
Item 2: Central Point School Children running in the school yardAdd to your cart.
Physical Description: 5x7
Item 3: Drakesboro School ClassAdd to your cart.
Identified,Front Row-Freddie Carver, Ronnie Brown, Lloyd Jenkins, Newman Grise, Glyndel Travis, Obie Mayes, Delmer Gibson (Scottie); Second Row- Elaine DePoyster, Geneva Barnes, Violetha Jones, Neda Vern Moore, Robert Devyer, Bennie Sam Hill, Billy Blythe, Gene Arndell; Back Row- Lorene Knight, Elizabeth Hill, Patsy Vincent, Norman McIntosh, Mrs. Jennie Jeffers Ashby, Donnie Davis, Dalpha Greenwood, Margaret Greenwood, Betty Mallory
Physical Description: 5x7
Item 4: Helper 2 Club at Central Point School, near Graham, KY (Jennie Jeffers Ashby is second from left)Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 5x7
Item 5: Unidentified girl with a plaid dress holding a fan, and unidentified boy in a suit holding a hatAdd to your cart.
Physical Description: 2.5x4
Item 6: Pa Abner-(Possibly professor of ) Croquet and Lectures, 1907Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3x4
Item 7: Roy and Jennie Jeffers, 1901Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 2.5x3
Item 8: Unidentified manAdd to your cart.
Physical Description: 2.75x3.75
Item 9: Jennie Jeffers Ashby, the first photo paid for by her brother John B. Jeffers, 1900-1901Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3x3
Item 10: Jennie Jeffers AshbyAdd to your cart.
Physical Description: 3x3.5
Item 11: Women posing outside at Kentucky State College, 1904Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.25x4.25
Item 12: Jennie Jeffers Ashby, picture made for R.L.M., 1904Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 4.5X7
Item 13: Robert L. McPherinAdd to your cart.
Physical Description: 4.75x6.75
Item 14: Eddie J. Ashby, ca. 1910Add to your cart.
Creator: Schroeter
Physical Description: 4.5x7
Item 15: Students marching on the street for the school fair at Pleasant Hill School, 1914Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 2.5x3.25
Item 16: Graham School, 1928-1930Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 2.5x3.5
Item 17: Doris Glan McDonald at 10 years old, 1942 FebAdd to your cart.
Physical Description: 1.5x2.25
Item 18: Students lined up outside for the school fair at Pleasant Hill School, 1914Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 2.5x3.5
Item 19: Students in a float shaped as a boat at the Pleasant Hill School Fair, 1914Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 2.5x3.5
Item 20: Centertown School, grades 6-8, Jennie Jeffers Ashby in the second row first from left, 1928Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.5x5.75
Item 21: Seniors marching in a parade during the Pleasant Hill School Fair, 1914Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.25x5.5
Item 22: Students marching during the Pleasant Hill School fair, 1914Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.25x5.5
Item 23: Students in a float shaped as a boat at the Pleasant Hill School fair, 1914Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.5x5.5
Item 24: People watching students in a parade during the Pleasant Hill School fair, 1914Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.25x5.5
Item 25: People gathered around a building during the Pleasant Hill School fair, 1914Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.5x5.5
Item 26: Central Point School float during a school fair, 1914Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.25x5.5
Item 27: Students on a horse and wagon during the Pleasant Hill School fair, 1912Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.25x5.25
Item 28: Unidentified school room with studentsAdd to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.5x5.5
Item 29: Crowds gathering on the street and outside of a building during the Pleasant Hill School fair, 1914Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.25x5.5
Item 30: New and old Dovey School, 1909-1910Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.5x5.5
Item 31: Students marching on the street during the Pleasant Hill School fair, 1914Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.25x5.5
Item 32: Jennie Jeffers Ashby on a C.P.S. CardAdd to your cart.
Physical Description: 3.25x5.25
Item 33: Possibly Jennie Jeffers AshbyAdd to your cart.
Creator: Campbell
Physical Description: 6.75x10.75
Item 34: Jennie Jeffers AshbyAdd to your cart.
With "Zenith" written underneath photo.
Physical Description: 4.5x9.5
Item 35: Drakesboro School FacultyAdd to your cart.
Identified-Front Row-Jackson, Lindsey, Pillow, Ashley, Pruett, Williams; Second Row- Ross, Walker, Cornette, Wines, Frozer, Stewart Williams?; Back Row- Neothamer, Shaver, Arnold, Ross
Creator: Preston, C.A.
Physical Description: 8x10
Item 36: Drakesboro School Eighth grade class. Class that Jennie Jeffers Ashby started with in the 4th grade at Drakesboro and then taught them in the 7th and 8th grade as well, 1947Add to your cart.
Creator: Preston, C.A.
Physical Description: 8x10
Item 37: Greensville High School Graduating Class, 1901Add to your cart.
Physical Description: 9.25x12
Folder 7: School Records, 1890-1961Add to your cart.
School records includes report cards from elementary school through college for Mrs. Ashby. (41 documents)