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Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Department of Library Special Collections Kentucky Library & Museum Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, KY 42101 Descriptive Inventory MSS 93 DOWNING-Eubank Collection, 1832-1993 1 box, 12 folders, 174 items Gift of Thomas Meade Harwell, Austin, Texas, 1994 SHELF LIST BOX 1 1832-1993 174 items Folder 1 Inventory and biographical information 3 items Folder 2 William Roark Downing - Incoming July 10, 1848-32 items letter (October 1, 1883) and Dec. 14, 1900; business papers Folder 3 William E. Downing - Business March 15, 1882-55 items papers Aug. 10, 1922; Folder 4 Malinda C. Downing - Incoming 1860 - Jan. 26, 4 items letters 1885 Folder 5 Dewitt Clinton Downing - Chiefly Jan 21, 1862-10 items outgoing letters of Dewitt Clinton March 19, 1899; Downing, but two letters of other 1993 Downing family members Folder 6 James W. Downing - Listing made by 1862 1 item, 15p. Downing, of Civil War members of 9 th Kentucky Infantry, Co. I. (Includes some deaths) Folder 7 John Lowry Downing - Letter by May 5, 1913-6 items and relating to Jan. 12, 1916?; Folder 8 Edward Downing - Letters and Aug. 25, 1916-12 items receipts concerning Edward s April 9, 1917 schooling 3/7/01
2 Folder 9 Eubank family - Correspondence Dec. 7, 1832-11 items April 20, 1906 Folder 10 Eubank family - Receipts, deeds, etc. Sept. 3, 1832-24 items Nov. 8, 1907; 1993; Folder 11 Allen and Barren County - deeds, Nov. 10, 1846-6 items surveys, and summons Nov. 21, 1865 Folder 12 Tintype picture of "Grandmother June 21, 1919-9 items Eubank" and miscellaneous items Oct. 25, 1932; 1968; 1993; Oversize James W. Downing - Pay and Dec. 15, 1864 1 item Folder 13 clothing account unsettled C1,D2, #14 following his 1862 death CATALOG CARD MSS DOWNING-Eubank Collection 1832-1993 93 Correspondence and business papers concerning the Downing and Eubank families in the Kentucky counties of Allen and Barren, which chiefly include Civil War letters, 1862-1865 (7); Allen and Barren County deeds; and tax receipts, 1832-1922. Also biographical information, 1993. 1 box. 12 folders. 173 items. Originals, 171; photocopies, 1; typescript, 1. Gift of Thomas Meade Harwell, Austin, Texas, 1994. K/81 SUBJECT ANALYTICS Allen County - Deeds, 1848-1901 B1,F2,3,&11 Allen County - Lumber industry and trade, 1899 B1,F2 Allen County - Railroads - Cumberland & Ohio - Tax receipts, 1873, 1907 B1,F2&3 Allen County - Surveys and surveying, 1863-1865 B1,F2,3&11 Allen County - Tax receipts, 1866-1921 B1,F2&3 Allen County - Undertakers and undertaking, 1916 B1,F7 Barren County - Civil War - Civilian affairs, 1864 B1,F9 Barren County - Deeds, 1856-1860 B1,F10,&11 Barren County - Surveys and surveying, 1846 B1,F11
Blackburn, Joseph Clay Skiles, 1838-1918 B1,F3 Blacks - Military service - Civil War B1,F5 Burial - Law and legislation, 1916 B1,F7 Chickamauga (GA) - Civil War - Battle of, 1863 B1,F5 Civil War, 1861-1865 B1,F5&6 Civil War - Black troops - Tennessee B1,F5 Civil War - Casualties - Tennessee B1,F5 Civil War - Campaigns, battles, military actions - Chickamauga, Georgia, 1863 B1,F5 Civil War - Campaigns, battles, military actions - Mill Springs, 1862 B1,F5 Civil War - Campaigns, battles, military actions - Stones River, Tennessee, 1863 B1,F5 Civil War - Civilian affairs - Barren County, 1864 B1,F9 Civil War - Civilian affairs - Tompkinsville, 1862 B1,F9 Civil War - Letterheads, 1862 B1,F5 Civil War - Military life B1,F5 Civil War - Military life - Tennessee B1,F5 Civil War - Pay, allowances, etc., and paymasters B1,F5 Civil War - Regiments - Infantry - 9 th Kentucky Co. I, - Registers, 1862 B1,F6 Civil War - Tennessee B1,F5 Confederate States of America - Army - Tompkinsville, 1862 B1,F9 Cumberland & Ohio Railroad Company - Tax receipts, 1873, 1907 B1,F2&3 Downing, Dewitt Clinton B1, F5 Downing, Edward - Relating to, 1916-1917 B1,F8 Downing, James W., 1838?-1862 B1,F6,&13 Downing, James W., 1838?-1862 - Relating to, 1867 B1,F6,&13 Downing, John Lowry, 1890-1915 - Relating to, 1913-1916 B1,F7 Downing, Malinda C. - Letters to, 1860, 1884-1885 B1,F4 Downing, William Edward, 1863-1954 - Relating to, 1893-1922 B1, F3 Downing, William Roark, 1821-1900? - Estate, 1900 B1,F2 Downing, William Roark, b.1821 - Relating to, 1848-1900 B1, F2 Economic conditions - Madisonville, 1869 B1,F5 Education - Tennessee - Huntington, 1916-1917 B1,F8 Estates, 1900 B1,F2 Eubank family B1,F9,10&12 Eubank family - Photos B1,F12 Georgia - Civil War - Campaigns, battles, military actions, 1863 B1,F5 Grandfathers - Congratulatory letters of, 1928 B1,F12 Horses - Trade, 1852 B1,F9 Kentucky - Infantry - 9th Regiment - Co. I, 1862 B1, F8 Letterheads - Civil War, 1862 B1, F5 Lumber industry and trade - Allen County, 1899 B1,F2 Madisonville - Economic conditions, 1869 B1,F5 Monroe County - Deeds, 1893-1894 B1,F3 Mills Springs - Civil War - Battle of, January 1862 B1,F5 Parenthood, 1928 B1,F12 Railroads - Cumberland & Ohio - Allen County - Tax receipts, 1873, 1907 B1,F2&3 Regiments - Civil War - Infantry - 9 th Kentucky, Co. I, - Registers, 1862 B1,F6 Schools - Tennessee - Huntington, 1916-1917 B1,F8 Smallpox, 1915 B1,F7 Stones River - Civil War - Battle of, 1863 B1,F5 Surveys and surveying - Allen County, 1863,1865 B1,F2,3&11 3
Surveys and surveying - Barren County, 1846 B1,F11 Tennessee - Civil War - Black troops B1,F5 Tennessee - Civil War - Campaigns, battles, military actions, 1863 B1,F5 Tennessee - Civil War - Casualties B1,F5 Tennessee - Huntington - Social life and customs, 1916-1929 B1,F8&12 Tennessee - Schools, 1916-1917 B1-F8 Tennessee - Schools - Huntington, 1916-1917 B1,F8 Tobacco - Growing, 1869 B1,F5 Tompkinsville - Civil War - Civilian affairs, 1862 B1,F9 Tompkinsville - Civil War - Confederate States of America - Army, 1862 B1,F9 Undertakers and undertaking - Allen County, 1916 B1,F7 Zollicoffer, Felix Kirk, 1812-1862 - Relating to, 1862 B1,F5 4 PHOTOGRAPH CARDS Eubank family - Photos B1,F12 CHRONOLOGICAL CARDS 1832-1841- 1861-1865- 1881-1901- SEE CARD Interment See Burial; Burial - Laws and legislation