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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This collection includes letters written to Myrtle Arbuckle and other individuals about the Arbuckle family history. Typescripts and photocopies of wills, estate records, obituaries, and deed indexes as well as a notebook compiled by Myrtle Arbuckle documents the Arbuckle and Estill families. Also included are funeral notices and bible records for the Estills, Arbuckles, Sullengers and related families. A short family history by the donor describes how the family members mentioned in the materials fit together.
One letter of interest describes the writer's living conditions during the Great Depression.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Accruals:
The correspondence and typescripts of court records were dropped without documentation before August 2013.
Acquisition Source:
Forderhase, R.E.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Folder 1
- Series 1: Bible Records, 1839-1972
- Records from two family Bibles, one beginning with the family of John H. Estill and Sally Ann Sullenger, the other beginning with the family of Andrew A. Arbuckle and Mary Ann Right Arbuckle.
- Series 2: Correspondence, 1923-1964
- Correspondence with various individuals about the Arbuckle family including a letter from the Judge J.D. Goodloe of the Richmond Exchange Club. One letter also talks about the writer's life during the Great Depression.
- Series 3: Documents, 1868
- A document announcing the curfew for lodgers of the D.W. Bright store building.
- Series 4: Funeral Notices, 1859-1885
- John Sullenger, Elizabeth Sullenger and May Green.
- Series 5: Genealogy Notes
- Item 1: Children of Andrew and Rightie Arbuckle
- One page document created by Eugene Forderhase showing the family of "Rightie Estill."
- Item 2: Family History, 1916
- Notebook written by Myrtle Arbuckle dictated to her by her father, Andrew Alexander Arbuckle.
- Item 3: Genealogy Notes and Documents
- Handwritten notes about the Arbuckle family as well as copies of documents and indexes.
- Series 6: News Clippings, 1915-1929
- News articles and obituaries relating to various members of the Arbuckle and Estill families.
- Series 7: Photographs, circa 1905
- Item 1: Arbuckle Sisters, circa 1905
- Rightie, Myrtle, Sallie, Bettie, Virginia, Mary, Estelle, and Ann Maud Arbuckle
- Creators:
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Wade's Art Gallery
- Item 2: Righty Estill
- Copy print of a photo.
- Item 3: Matthew Arbuckle
- Photograph of a wood cut.
- Folder 2
- Series 8: Diploma, 1870
- Item 1: Righty Estill Diploma, 17 Jun 1870
- From Madison Female Institute
