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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. -
Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller & Sons, January 8th, 1887.
Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller & Sons, distillers and liquor dealers, of three hundred and seventeen dollars and forty-seven cents. -
Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller & Sons, March 14th, 1887.
Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller & Sons, distillers and liquor dealers, of two hundred and thirty one dollars and fifty three cents. -
Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller & Sons, November 2nd, 1887.
Check to T. J. Humphrey from W. L. Weller & Sons, distillers and liquor dealers, of three hundred dollars. -
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. -
Guardian Papers for Abraham Pharris and Marcine Pharris signed by J. J. Terry, March 26th, 1894.
An offical document of guardianship from the State of Kentucky, Jefferson county, stating that the court appoints J. J. Terry the legal guardian of Abraham and Marcine Pharris. The Pharris' are under 14 years of age, of Nathan Pharris (deceased,), and signed off by a clerk and deputy clerk. Handwritten on the back, Weller says "the children delivered to guardian March 26/94." -
Letter to a Mr. Weller from W. B. Blackiver, September 23rd, 1887.
Letter to a presumed W. L. Weller from W. B. Blackiver, writing to argue his suspicions of Mr. Russell who is most likely abusing the children he adopted from the home. Mr. Russell has pulled his children out of school, and Blackiver believes this is not the fault of their teacher. -
Letter to Bro. Weller from B. J. Dawson, October 25th, 1889.
Letter to presumably W. L. Weller from B. J. Dawson in Owensboro, Kentucky writing to confirm he and his wife will adopt the boy Wilson from the Home. Dawson then asks about the bonds process and how Wilson will get to his home in Masonville, Kentucky. -
Letter to Brother Pierce from M. H. Utley, June 30th, 1894.
Utley writes to "Brother Pierce" regarding the adoption of a girl from the Home. He says the girl will suit them well. Letter marked Salem, KY. In a letter from 9 July 1894, Utley sends $5 for the adoption of Lula and to send her to Prinston, KY. He says that if Lula has a mild disposition, there will be no problem with the rest of the family. Letter marked Salem, KY. In another letter from 9 July 1894, Utley writes again to send $5 "to pay Miss Lula a lot [?] expence to Prinston KY in care of Rev. R. W. Morehead." He asks for her to be sent as soon as convenient, and reassures Weller that she will fit with the family. He also states that "the girl that left us to live with her sister a few weeks ago lived with us 9 years," which is very likely referring to Eliza Goodman and her sister Amie Goodman, who wrote to the Home asking to take care of Eliza on 15 June 1894. Letter marked Salem, KY. On a letter from 23 July 1894, Utley describes a girl named Julia who has come to live with his family. He says "she has become sattisfied and will stay with us two years any how," and that "she has some faults we would be vary glad she was clare of." He says that she won't go to school and that he "cant force her to go." He asks how she stayed at the Home and has no education. He says, "Julia sez tell the girls that she has got a good many nice preants since she come to Salem." Letter marked Salem, KY. In a letter from 2 Oct 1894, Utley writes that he cannot keep Jula (Julia? Lula?) Fox, as he "cant controler her she has the worst disposition of eny human I ever seen." He says that they have tried every method to control her "but use the rod," which he won't do. He says he "won't have [his] wife tormented to death" and he will try to find her a home in the country. He asks to be released from her. Letter marked Salem, KY. In a letter from 29 Oct 1894, Utley writes that he "got Julia for a good home in the county where she will be well treated if she will behave herself." He goes on to say that many "Brothers and Sisters that was strong friends to the Home" say that if Julia "was a fair sample of the training of the Home that they would never give another dollar." He asks for a "girl that has a mild plesant disposition" between 10 and 14 that he will send to school, feed and clothe. Letter marked Salem, KY. -
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 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 Miss Mary Hollingsworth from J. H. Switzer, May 1st, 1894.
J. H. Switzer writes to Weller regarding Lilian Gary, a girl adopted by Mr. Briston. He says that she has many school friends, goes fishing with the "old people," and goes to church and Sunday school every week. Letter marked Switzer, Franklin County, KY. -
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 Mr. W. L. Weller from Mary A. Hollingsworth, November 21st, 1887.
Letter to W. L. Weller from Mary A. Hollingsworth on the adoption of Mary Williams (born after 1876) by Dr. Edwin Haines, members of the Broadway Baptist Church. Dr. Haines and his wife were referred by Mr. E. N. Woodruff and Rev. H. A. Tupper Jr. -
Letter to Mr. W. L. Weller from Thos. J. Jones, October 24th, 1892.
Letter to W. L. Weller from Thos. J. Jones of Greenville, Kentucky, writing about his adoption of a "smart little girl," D. Zenobia Wheat. He writes that she can be brought to him by "some passing friend as stated."