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Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller, July 3rd, 1891.
Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller & Sons of three hundred dollars. -
Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller, June 20th, 1891.
Check to T. J. Humphrey of five hundred and five dollars with ninety cents from W. L. Weller. -
Check for T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller, May 6th, 1891.
Check for T. J. Humphrey for three hundred dollars for the Louisville Baptist Orphan's Home, signed by W. L. Weller. -
Letter to Judge H. C. Rogers, Sr. from W. L. Weller, April 10th, 1891.
Letter to Judge H. C. Rogers, Sr. in Leitchfield, Kentucky from W. L. Weller detailing that if the eldest, twelve years old, is a boy, the Home cannot take him in. If the eldest is a girl, the six children can be committed to the Home. He requests that a physician give a certificate of their good health and that their ages be inserted in the Bond. -
Letter to Judge Jno. M. Burns from W. L. Weller, March 11th, 1889.
Letter to Judge Jno. M. Burns in Ashland, Kentucky from W. L. Weller confirming that he has sent the bonds to the mother are for her to use in committing her children. If the two children are of sound mind and body and the mother is willing to give them to the Home, the children will be accepted. Once the children are admitted, the mother, by contract, has no control of the children and will have to write the Home to hear from them. -
Letter to Judge Jno. M. Burns from W. L. Weller, March 6th, 1889.
Letter to Judge Jno. M. Burns in Ashland, Kentucky from W. J. Weller discussing the bond process and the role of a Judge and County County Court in an adoption. -
Letter to Mr. Joseph Dulany from W. L. Weller, October 2nd, 1888.
Letter to Mr. Joseph Dulany in Rockcastle County, Kentucky from W. L. Weller discussing the acceptance of a little girl, Amanda Bangs. If her parents are both dead and she is "sound in mind and body" that she can be sent to Louisville with the papers and be accepted in the Home. -
Letter to Mr. Shelby Wilson from W. L. Weller, September 24th, 1888.
Letter to Mr. Shelby Wilson in New Liberty, Owen County, Kentucky from W. L. Weller, requesting he provide confidential reference for a possible adoptive mother, Mrs. Fannie Brown. On the back, Mr. Wilson responds that he doesn't know her, though she is twenty-one years old and lives with her husband. Both seem kind, yet they are too poor to "do much for a child. " -
Letter to Ms. J. Ellotten from W. L. Weller, June 11th, 1888.
Letter to J. Ellotten (sp) in Donover, Kentucky, from W. L. Weller on behalf of the Louisville Baptist Orphan's Home. Weller writes that he has received her letter and she now needs to fill out bonds before a clerk to complete the paperwork. She can send her two little girls with the paperwork. -
Letter to Mary Hollingsworth from W. L. Weller and Son, July 22nd, 1885.
Letter to Mary Hollingsworth from the office of W. L. Weller & Son, Distillers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers in Louisville. W. L. [Wellerson?] writes to notify the home that an adoptive mother has died and the boy - whose name was possibly McHidden - has no direct caregiver. They lived in Campbellsburg, Kentucky. -
Letter to Mary Hollingsworth from W. L. Weller, August 11th, 1879.
Letter to Hollingsworth from W. L. Weller of W. L. Weller & Son Re-Distillers naming two children of John McKeown as Willie (aged six) and Frank (aged four) as being added to the home on the order of Judge Hoke. Willie was born on February 25th, 1873 and Frank was born August 21st, 1876. -
Letter to the Baptist Orphans Home from W. L. Ramsey, September 14th, 1894.
W. L. Ramsey writes to the Home on behalf of Mrs. Martha Bell, who "has just made application to have her four children put in the home, ranging in ages from 3 to 10 years, one boy, and three girls." She currently is homeless and cannot support them, but is "thinking of going to the city to get employment" and if she is able to in the future, would like to take the children back. Letter marked Buffalo, KY. -
Letter to W. L. Weller from W. L. Fuson, September 2nd, 1893.
W. L. Fuson responds to the Home (stating she received a response "of 21") regarding the four orphans under her guardianship. The children are two girls, aged 7 and 9, and two boys aged 2 and 5 and "seame to be sound in mind, and body, and all right." She states that their mother died 24 August 1893 in the Lunatic Asylum Lexington, Kentucky and requests necessary information as she wants to send the children to the Home at once. Letter marked Pinesville, KY. -
Letter to Baptist Orphans Home from W. L. Fuson, August 14th, 1893.
W. L. Fuson writes to the Home about four orphans she is taking care of. Their father is dead and their mother is "in the Silum." Letter marked Pinesville, KY. -
Letter to the Home from W. J. Roney, September 24th, 1893.
W. J. Roney writes to Weller to ask him to send the necessary papers to "apprentis the twins to W. D. Hutchuson Hickman, KY." He also asks for details to arrange to meet the children. Letter signed also by Hutchuson. Letter marked Fulton, KY. -
Letter to W. L. Weller from W. J. L. Heughes, October 22nd, 1894.
Heughes writes to Weller regarding the adoption of a child. He states that his household has one boy 12 years old, that he can give a child proper moral instruction, and that "unless it conducted itself in a strictly moral and discreet way, it could not remain about [him]." He asks for necessary bonds and contracts. Letter marked Marion, KY. -
Letter to Miss Mary Hollingsworth from W. J. Jones, May 23rd, 1892.
Letter to Miss Mary Hollingsworth from W. J. Jones, who had recently traveled to Sacramento, Kentucky, and met with members of the Station Church. The church members wanted to know if someone recommended F. F. Gibson when he applied for Oscar Blankenship. Her further writes, "The people own there are considerably worked up over the matter and unless The Orphan's Home can show that they only let on children to parties who are well known and recommended they won't be satisfied." -
Letter to John H. Weller from W. J. Jones, March 25th, 1892.
Letter to John H. Weller from W. J. Jones of Sacramento, Kentucky, from the office of J. W. Vancleave. Jones writes that the Chuch Mr. Gibson is a part of wants to know who recommended him to the home, or any evidence they can bring into the trial. They will soon write to Weller and report who has taken Oscar in.