Arbuckle Family Papers
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates
- Creation: 1868 - 1964
- Acquisition: 2009-06-24
Full Extent
1.00 folders
Language of Materials
English
Source of Acquisition
Forderhase, R.E.
Accruals and Additions
The correspondence and typescripts of court records were dropped without documentation before August 2013.
Subject
- Arbuckle family. (Family)
- Estill family. (Family)
Topical
- Title
- Arbuckle Family Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Couture, Jackie
- Date
- 08/29/2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, Research Center for Special Collections and Archives Repository