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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Stone family papers from Nelson County, Kentucky. The collection includes two issues of a supplement to The Penny Magazine, dated November 30, 1834 and December 31, 1834. There is an Adjutant General's Report of the Army in Mexico under General Z. Taylor, dated November 30, 1847. There are receipts from various family members as well as correspondence. One letter is from Thomas S. Stephens while he was a student at the Western Military Institute at Blue Lick, Kentucky in 1850.
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Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Moberly, Todd D.
Box and Folder Listing
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- Folder 1
- Item 1: The Penny Magazine, 31 Oct - 30 Nov 1834
- This issue deals with the House of Lords.
- Item 2: The Penny Magazine, 30 Nov - 31 Dec 1834
- This issue deals with the House of Lords.
- Item 3: General Return of the Army of Mexico, 30 Nov 1847
- Under the command of Z. Taylor.
- Item 4: Receipt for Payment on a Coffin, 6 May 1871
- Signed by James Poynter, payment received from Isaac Stone
- Item 5: Receipt for Fabric, 18 Jan 1851
- Mrs. Nancy Dorsey in account with Dayton Bennett
- Item 6: Cousin Horace from Mary Jarvis, 5 Oct 1865
- She talks about health, her theory that rheumatism is a hereditary disease and her philosophy about life and disease.
- Item 7: Mrs. Jeremiah Stephens from Thos. L. Stephens, 9 Dec 1850
- Letter from the Western Military Institute in Blue Lick, KY. He talks about studying and various family members.
- Item 8: Letter from M. Glasscocke, 1865
- This letter to an unidentified recipient talks about a law suit and the tender used to pay a debt. He mentions that according to the U.S. Supreme Court, the greenback is legal tender and he can pay his debt using it.
