The Resource Emma Hillis collection
Emma Hillis collection
Resource Information
The item Emma Hillis collection represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Emma Hillis collection represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- There are four items in this collection: (1) badge of the Pereclesian Society of Franklin College, which belonged to W. H. McCoy, who graduated from that college in 1861; (2) agreement for eleven men to pay the $50 salary for Elizabeth A. Potter to teach in Marion Township, Decatur County, Indiana, dated April 14, 1862; (3) certificate granting license for E. A. Potter to teach in the common school in Decatur County, dated August 30, 1862; and (4) "Minutes of the Fifty-Fourth Anniversary of the Flat Rock Baptist Associaiton held with the Haw Creek Baptist Church, Bartholomew County, Indiana, August 23rd and 24th, 1876. The Baptist Association minutes are published in a 12-page booklet, which gives delegates names, financial contributions of the 18 churches, and the history of Mount Moriah Baptist Church located in the town of Adams. The badge is red, white, and blue, and is in fragile condition
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Extent
- 0.01 Cubic feet
- Note
- Processing Information: Collection processing completed 2015/05/28 by Nikki Stoddard Schofield. EAD finding aid completed 2015/05/28 by Nikki Stoddard Schofield
- Label
- Emma Hillis collection, 1861-1876
- Title
- Emma Hillis collection
- Inclusive dates
- 1861-1876
- Language
-
- eng
- eng
- Summary
- There are four items in this collection: (1) badge of the Pereclesian Society of Franklin College, which belonged to W. H. McCoy, who graduated from that college in 1861; (2) agreement for eleven men to pay the $50 salary for Elizabeth A. Potter to teach in Marion Township, Decatur County, Indiana, dated April 14, 1862; (3) certificate granting license for E. A. Potter to teach in the common school in Decatur County, dated August 30, 1862; and (4) "Minutes of the Fifty-Fourth Anniversary of the Flat Rock Baptist Associaiton held with the Haw Creek Baptist Church, Bartholomew County, Indiana, August 23rd and 24th, 1876. The Baptist Association minutes are published in a 12-page booklet, which gives delegates names, financial contributions of the 18 churches, and the history of Mount Moriah Baptist Church located in the town of Adams. The badge is red, white, and blue, and is in fragile condition
- Biographical or historical data
- Emma A. Hillis was born about 1870 to William H. and Elizabeth A. (Potter) McCoy. She married Lafayette Hillis, who was 22 years her senior, on December 14, 1903. The couple moved to Wichita, Kansas in circa 1907, along with Emma's mother, Elizabeth McCoy. Her father, William H. McCoy graduated from Franklin College in 1861. Before her mother, Elizabeth A. Potter, married, she received a license to teach in Marion Township, Decatur County, Indiana, on April 14, 1862. Sources:Items in the collection.Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT: 2010. Accessed July 1, 2015.Ancestry.com. Indiana, Select Marriages, 1780-1992 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: 2014. Accessed July 1, 2015.
- Cataloging source
- ISL
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- McCoy, Elizabeth A
- McCoy, William H
- Franklin College (Franklin, Ind.)
- Baptists
- Literature
- Teachers
- Bartholomew County (Ind.)
- Decatur County (Ind.)
- Marion (Ind.)
- Label
- Emma Hillis collection
- Note
- Processing Information: Collection processing completed 2015/05/28 by Nikki Stoddard Schofield. EAD finding aid completed 2015/05/28 by Nikki Stoddard Schofield
- Arrangement
- This collection is arranged chronologically.
- Carrier category
- unspecified
- Carrier category code
- zu
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- unspecified
- Content type code
- zzz
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20839633
- Extent
- 0.01 Cubic feet
- Governing access note
- This collection is open for research
- Media category
- unspecified
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- z
- Ownership
- This collection was received by Rare Books and Manuscripts as a donation from Emma (Mrs. Lafayette) Hillis in 1946/02.
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn966450537
- (OCoLC)966450537
- Terms governing use
- Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Type of unit
- 1 folder
- Label
- Emma Hillis collection
- Note
- Processing Information: Collection processing completed 2015/05/28 by Nikki Stoddard Schofield. EAD finding aid completed 2015/05/28 by Nikki Stoddard Schofield
- Arrangement
- This collection is arranged chronologically.
- Carrier category
- unspecified
- Carrier category code
- zu
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- unspecified
- Content type code
- zzz
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 20839633
- Extent
- 0.01 Cubic feet
- Governing access note
- This collection is open for research
- Media category
- unspecified
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- z
- Ownership
- This collection was received by Rare Books and Manuscripts as a donation from Emma (Mrs. Lafayette) Hillis in 1946/02.
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn966450537
- (OCoLC)966450537
- Terms governing use
- Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Type of unit
- 1 folder
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