MSS Finding Aids
Publication Date
8-22-2012
Abstract
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2574. Letters (2) of George W. Williams, New Albany, Indiana, to Winifred Williams, Paris, Kentucky. He describes the injury and subsequent death of her brother Charles Henry Webb, and the injuries and deaths of other family members, from an explosion aboard the steamboat Lucy Walker on the Ohio River near New Albany. Includes a 1952 typescript letter of a descendant providing family information and relating details of the disaster as told to her by an aunt.
Disciplines
History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Williams, George Washington, 1801-1870 (SC 2574)" (2012). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 2255.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/2255
Comments
This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu