Lillard family : papers, 1801-1925 (bulk 1842-1855).

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Lillard family : papers, 1801-1925 (bulk 1842-1855).

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Most of the papers date from 1842-1855 and concern General Christopher Lillard, his sons, Christopher Marion Lillard, John Horre Lillard, Reverend Robert Rodes Lillard, and the son-in-law of Christopher Marion Lillard, James Porter Ripy. Papers include correspondence, 1821-1925; land papers, 1803-1859; receipts, 1801-1901; account book, 1843-1845; list of property given to his children by General Lillard, 1846; inventory and appraisal of General Lillard's estate; General Lillard's commissions in the Kentucky militia, 1816-1832; resolutions passed by the Kentucky Military Institute on the death of Robert M. Lillard, son of C.M. Lillard, in 1866; rolls of Companies F and H, 5th Ky. Cavalry, C.S.A., and Company G, 6th Ky. Infantry, C.S.A., and subscription list for the Confederate monument in Lawrenceburg, Ky. Also includes military papers concerning the 5th and 6th brigades of the Ky. militia in 1814 and a certificate giving the service of Jefferson Hayden, a black soldier, in the Union Army, 1866; genealogical notes on the Lillard and related families; broadsides and invitations; newspaper clippings about Anderson County and the Lillard-Ripy family; and recipes. Correspondence discusses personal and family matters; John H. Lillard's service in the Mexican War and his life in Mo. after the war; Robert Lillard's career at Georgetown College and as associate editor of The Western Baptist Review; James P. Ripy's service in the Confederate Army and his business interests after the war; land and financial transactions; and the sale and purchase of slaves. Receipts contain material on merchants in Lawrenceburg(Anderson County), Ky., and Louisville, and costs at Georgetown College in the 1840s. Information on distilling in post Civil War Ky. is also included.

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