Scrapbook Loose Pages
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook created by Mrs. Holman S. Todd (Mary Pieratt Todd) containing newspaper clippings from The Wolfe County News, with Mrs. Todd's notes dating them from 1893-1960. The scrapbook contains mostly obituaries about the Todd, Pieratt, and Combs families along with Wolfe county friends and family. Other clippings include pictures, poems, recipes, and stories that interested Mrs. Todd, such as news articles about Abraham Lincoln and Japan. Mrs. Todd includes a list from 1959 at the end of the scrapbook recording the Pieratt's lineage from father to son, starting with Valentino Pieratt in 1760. There is a loose photograph of the Combs family and a charcoal sketch of Henry Combs.
Dates
- Creation: 1893 - 1960
- Acquisition: 2018
Creator
- From the Collection: Todd, Mary P. (Person)
Full Extent
From the Collection: 0.22 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives Repository