Letter from Amanda Kennedy Leftwich to French Tipton | Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
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Title:
Letter from Amanda Kennedy Leftwich to French Tipton
Date:
17 May 1892
Description:
Mrs. Leftwich descended from the Morrison line, and in this letter she offers whatever assistance she may be able to provide regarding their family's history in Kentucky. Her ancestors came shortly after Dan Boone and she comments they helped build the first structures in what would become Cincinnati, OH. She had 87 years at the time of the letter and stated that she was "the last of my race, the other ten children having died long since."
ID:
2011a001-b1-f04-i21
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Found in:
French Tipton Papers, 1780-1901
Series 1: Correspondence Box 1 Folder 4: Correspondence to Tipton, I-Mc Item 21: Leftwich, Amanda Kennedy, Mrs., 17 May 1892
Series 1: Correspondence Box 1 Folder 4: Correspondence to Tipton, I-Mc Item 21: Leftwich, Amanda Kennedy, Mrs., 17 May 1892Rights:
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