By Sharon Brown McConnell, Amanda Hoover
Title: Green/Fife/White Family Papers, 1797-1955
Predominant Dates:1825-1885
Extent: 0.88 Cubic Feet
Date Acquired: 05/30/2002. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Civil War, 1861-1865., Ireland., Land titles--Kentucky., Nurses--Training of., Slavery - Kentucky
Languages: English
The Green - Fife - White Family Papers consist of correspondence and other documents from the family of Daniel Green and Margaret Ross Green and their descendants. The letters from Ireland to Alexander Fife are especially interesting as they discuss the economic and political situation in Ireland as well as information about family members and neighbors. The last letter in that series briefly mentions the Potato Famine. There are also numerous documents relating to slaves and slavery including a ledger which records slave birth dates and children from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The correspondence in the collection also includes letters written during the Civil War in which currency and conditions during the war are mentioned.
The diary of Martha White was begun on December 30, 1905 when she left Richmond, Kentucky to become a trained nurse in Dr. Price's Hospital in Philadelphia. For the next three years subsequent entries describe her fellow nurses, the patients, their ailments, and her activities during her free time as well as other topics giving the researcher a good overview of the life of a young woman training to become a nurse in the early 20th century.
Repository: Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Accruals: The Dorris Museum receipts were processed as Box 2.
Acquisition Source: Morris, Jerree A.
Finding Aid Revision History: Originally processed in 1989 by Sharon Brown McConnell. Correspondence reprocessed and separated into families by Jackie Couture in 2003. Dorris Museum receipts were processed by Amanda Hoover and added to the collection in 2009.
