Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Sellers family journal
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Sellers family journal
- Date
- 1830-1857 (inclusive)
- Extent
- 0.05 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Business records -- Kentucky.
- Journals (bookkeeping)
- Merchants.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by format. The Wade Hall Collection of American Letters has been processed into discrete collections based on provenance.
- Preferred Citation
- 2009ms132.0501: [identification of item], Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Sellers family journal, 1830-1857, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- The Sellers family of Woodford County, Kentucky consisted of Thomas Woods Sellers (b. 1788), his first wife Sarah R. Ashford (1793-1852), whom he married in 1812, and their three children: Henry Mortimer (b. 1815), Joseph (b. 1822), and Van Buren J. (b. 1836). After Sarah's death, Thomas remarried to Nancy Epperson (b. 1800), in 1855. Henry Mortimer married Harriet Stevenson in 1836, however, by 1840 Henry was married to Althea Nourse (1807-1875). With Althea, Henry had one child, Marion Wallace Sellers (1844-1903). The Sellers family was a long line of farmers and clerks, operating a sundries store and their own farms.
- American Letters collector Wade Hall (1934-2015) was a native of Union Springs, Alabama. Starting in 1962, he lived in Louisville, where he taught English and chaired the English and Humanities/Arts programs at Kentucky Southern College and Bellarmine University. He also taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida. He held degrees from Troy State University (B.S.), the University of Alabama (M.A.), and the University of Illinois (Ph.D.). He served for two years in the U.S. Army in the mid-fifties. Dr. Hall was the author of books, monographs, articles, plays, and reviews relating to Kentucky, Alabama, and Southern history and literature. His most recent books include A Visit with Harlan Hubbard; High Upon a Hill: A History of Bellarmine College; A Song in Native Pastures: Randy Atcher's Life in Country Music; and Waters of Life from Conecuh Ridge.
- Scope and Content
- The Sellers family journal (dated 1830-1857; 0.05 cubic feet; 1 folder) comprises a journal that documents the activities of the Sellers family as clerks and merchants in Woodford County, Kentucky in the mid-nineteenth century. A number of family members used the journal for their own purposes, including Marion, Van Buren, and Joseph. The majority of the journal is filled with entries of payments, shipments, deliveries, and contracts between customers and the Sellers for the sale, shipment, and delivery of goods domestically and internationally. In the beginning of the journal, a number of pages are pasted over with newspaper clippings or short stories and poems. In the back of the journal are notes about bookkeeping, education, and the meanings of flowers.
- The Sellers family journal is part of the Wade Hall Collection of American Letters, which includes correspondence and diaries from all over North America covering the time period of the Civil to Korean Wars. The materials were collected by Wade Hall and document everyday men and women.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Sellers family journal, 1830-1857
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Table of Contents
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