Mary (Mrs. Holman S.) Todd Scrapbook
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
- Todd, Mary P. (Person)
Full Extent
0.22 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
Donated by church member Jerry Dimitrov.
Source of Acquisition
White Oak Pond Church
Method of Acquisition
Gift.
Separated Materials
Separated and added to Newspaper Collection: Wolfe County News dated 7 May 1948 Christian Companion dated 6 May 1903
Subject
- Combs family. (Family)
- Pieratt family (Family)
- Todd family. (Family)
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. (Person)
Geographic
- Title
- Mary (Mrs. Holman S.) Todd Scrapbook
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sarah King
- Date
- 02/05/2019
- 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