Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Publication Date

12-7-2011

Comments

This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2489. Correspondence, wills, slave bills of sale, and genealogical data relating to the Bate family of Sumner County, Tennessee, and associated families. Includes a photostat of a letter of introduction for Eugenia P. (Bate) Bass written by Jefferson Davis, and a list of her assets held separately from her husband. Also includes a loyalty oath, 1865, sworn in Tennessee by H. Bate (click on "Additional Files" below for scan).

Disciplines

History | United States History

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