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Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator:  William G. Pirtle (1832-1911)

Title:  Memoirs, 1907

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.

Size of Collection:  .66 cubic feet

Location Number:  Mss. A/P672d/1-7

Scope and Content Note

Military memoirs, September, 1861 – November, 1864, written by William G. Pirtle, 2nd Lt., 7th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, C.S.A. Includes descriptions of daily military life in the Confederate army, personal reflections on the actions of Confederate generals, and observations of Battles of Brice’s Crossroads, Corinth, MS, Shiloh, Tupelo, MS and Franklin, TN. Collection includes over 400 pg. of photocopies and original handwritten manuscript.

Biographical Note

William George Pirtle was born on August 5, 1832 in St. Francois County, Missouri, the son of John A. and Mary B. Pirtle. The family later moved to Water Valley, Graves County, Kentucky. William, a farmer, married Sarah (“Sally”) Ann Webb. They had 4 children. He enlisted in the 7th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., on Sept. 12, 1861 and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on Sept. 19, 1862. He received a field promotion to captain and put in command of Company A on March 25, 1864. He was paroled on May 16, 1865 and returned to Water Valley, KY where he resumed farming. In 1907 he wrote the memoirs describing his service in the 7th KY Infantry. He died in Water Valley on Sept. 23, 1911 at the age of 77.

To read a transcript of Pirtle’s memoirs, please click here.

Folder List

Folder 1: Preface, index, appendix (original, photocopy and typewritten transcription).

Folder 2: Chapters 1-12; pp. 1-26 (photocopy of original fragments).

Folder 3: Chapters 1-12; pp. 1-26 (fragments of original); Chapters 1-17; pp 1-19 (typewritten transcription); Chapters 13-20; pp. 27-78 (original and photocopy); description of events from Nov., 1860 – July, 1862.

Folder 4: Chapters 21-32; pp. 79-132 (original and photocopy); description of events from August, 1862 – March, 1863.

Folder 5: Chapters 33-43; pp. 133-247 (original and photocopy); description of events from March, 1863 – March, 1864.

Folder 6: Chapters 44-49; pp. 247-328 (original and photocopy); description of events from March, 1864 – July, 1864.

Folder 7: Chapters 49-57; pp. 329-418 (original and photocopy); description of events from July – November, 1864.

Subject Headings

Alabama-History-Civil War, 1861-1865
Belmont (Mo.), Battle of, 1861
Brice’s Crossroads, Battle of, Miss., 1864
Buford, Abraham 1820-1884
Champion’s Hill, Battle of, 1863
Cheatham, Benjamin Franklin 1820-1886
Confederate States of America-History, naval
Confederate States of America. Army. Alabama Infantry Regiment, 35th
Confederate States of America. Army. Bell’s Tennessee Brigade
Confederate States of America. Army. Kentucky Infantry Regiment, 7th
Confederate States of America. Army. Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment, 3rd
Confederate States of America. Army. Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment, 7th
Confederate States of America. Army. Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment, 8th
Confederate States of America. Army. Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment,12th
Confederate States of America. Army. Louisiana Infantry Regiment, 12th
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 15th
Confederate States of America. Army-Recruiting, enlistment, etc.
Confederate States of America. Army-Supplies and stores
Confederate States of America. Army-Surgeons
Confederate States of America. Army-Transportation
Corinth (Miss.), Battle of, 1862
CSS Arkansas (Ironclad ram)
Desertion, military-Confederate States of America
Espionage-Mississippi
Forrest, Nathan Bedford 1821-1877
Fort Pillow (Tenn.), Battle of, 1864
Franklin (Tenn.), Battle of, 1864
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) 1822-1885
Hood, John Bell 1831-1879
Indians of North America-Sports
Jackson (Miss.)-History-Civil War, 1861-1865
Johnston, Joseph E. (Joseph Eggleston) 1807-1891
Kentucky-History-Civil War, 1861-1865
Lice-United States
Loring, William Wing 1818-1886
Louisiana-History-Civil War, 1861-1865
Lovell, Mansfield 1822-1884
Lyon, Hylan Benton 1836-1907
Military pensions-United States-Civil War, 1861-1865
Mississippi-History-Civil War, 1861-186
Paducah (Ky.)-History
Pemberton, John C. (John Clifford) 1814-1881
Pillow, Gideon Johnson 1806-1878
Polk, Leonidas 1806-1864
Price, Sterling 1809-1867
Roddey, Philip Dale 1826-1897
Shiloh, Battle of, 1862
Small pox- Mississippi
Smith, Andrew Jackson 1815-1897
Sturgis, Samuel Davis 1822-1889
Tennessee-History-Civil War, 1861-1865
Tupelo (Miss.), Battle of, 1864
Typhoid fever-Tennessee
United States–History-Civil War, 1861-1865
United States–History-Civil War, 1861-1865-African Americans
United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Campaigns
United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Casualties
United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Destruction and pillage
United States–History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Equipment and supplies
United States–History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Hospitals
United States–History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Medical care
United States–History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Naval operations
United States–History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Prisoners and prisons
United States–History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Scouts and scouting
United States–History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Transportation
United States–History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Underground movements
United States. Army-African American troops
United States. Army-Barracks and quarters
USS Mississippi (Sidewheeler)
Vicksburg (Miss.)-History-Siege, 1863

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator:  Leeper, James, 1830-1872

Title:  Papers, 1857-1869

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Collections.

Size of Collection:  .33 cu. ft.

Location Number:  Mss. A L486

Scope and Content Note

Collection consists primarily of official military records and correspondence of the 49th Indiana Volunteer Infantry regiment (1862-1865) as well as a few pre- and post-Civil War personal letters and correspondence pertaining to Col. James Leeper, Clark Co., Indiana.

Biographical Note

James Leeper was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana in 1830. By 1850 he had moved to Charlestown, Indiana, working as a blacksmith and later as a city watchman. He married Mary Jane Phillips and together they had 6 children. He enlisted in the 49th Indiana Regiment in October 1861, and was commissioned a captain in Company B. In November 1861, he was promoted to major, and subsequently to lieutenant colonel in December 1864. When the regiment reenlisted in Texas in 1864, Leeper remained with the veterans as colonel. Following the war, he returned to Jeffersonville, Indiana, and served as a river pilot and a state prison guard. On May 26, 1872, he died after a prolonged illness, presumably suffering from gastroenteritis.

Folder List

Folder 1: Personal, nonmilitary correspondence, 1857-1869 [10 items] CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

Folder 2: Personal military correspondence, documents pertaining to ordnance stores, military
transportation and courts martial, 1862-1864 [20 items] CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

Folder 3: Personal military correspondence, documents pertaining to ordnance stores, military
transportation and courts martial, 1865 [18 items] CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

Folder 4: Military Documents: Descriptive, muster rolls; equipment and clothing, 1862-1864 [26
items] CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

Folder 5: Military Documents: Descriptive, muster rolls; equipment and clothing, 1865-1867 [13
items] CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

Folder 6: Military Documents: Special Orders, 1865 [9 items] CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

Subject Headings

Clark County (Ind.)
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry – United States
Freemasons (Clark Lodge No. 40, Jeffersonville, Ind.)
Jacob, Richard Taylor, 1825-1903
Military Pensions, United States
Presidents – United States – Election – 1864
Transylvania University
Travel costs (Louisville-Cincinnati)
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Desertions
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Destruction and pillage
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865- Equipment and supplies
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Hospitals
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Prisoners and prisons
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Registers
United States – History – Civil War – Veterans
United States – History – Civil War – Veterans – Pensions
United States – History –1865-1898
United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 49th (1861-1865)
United States. Army – Ordnance and ordnance stores
United States. Army – Pay, Allowances, etc.
United States. Pension Bureau
United States. Post Office Department

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator:  Jones, Carridder

Title:  Added papers, 1916-2016

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.

Size of Collection:  1 cubic foot and 1 ovsz. folder

Location Number:  Mss. A J76a

Biographical Note

Carridder “Rita” Jones was born in South Carolina and lived in Indiana before moving to Kentucky. A playwright and historian, Jones’s research has included African American communities in Kentucky, especially the black hamlets in Lexington and Louisville. She conducted oral history projects concerning these communities: “Black Hamlets in the Kentucky Bluegrass” and “Historic African American Neighborhoods in Jefferson County” (the latter in partnership with the Filson Historical Society). She has presented her research at conferences, programs, workshops, and as productions.

Jones’ play, “Black Hamlets in the Kentucky Bluegrass,” was a finalist in the New York Drama League’s New Works Project in 2002. Another of her plays, “The Mark of Cain,” was chosen by the University of Louisville‘s African-American theater program for the Second Annual Juneteenth Festival of New Works. She also adapted a play for the Oldham County History Center from “Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave”.  The resulting production, “Voice of the Fugitive”, was presented at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2009.

Jones also founded two women’s organizations: Women Who Write and the Kentucky Women’s Book Festival.  In addition, she served on the board of directors for the Kentucky Foundation for Women (KFW). In 2006, Jones received the KFW’s Sallie Bingham Award, which recognizes Kentucky women who are leaders of feminist expression in the arts.

She has published two books: A Backward Glance (2009) and Voices: From Historical African American Communities near Louisville, Kentucky (2015).

Sources:

Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (NKAA), Jones, Carridder “Rita” https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/

Amazon.com author page for Carridder Jones.

 

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains materials relating to the professional interests and activities of Carridder Jones, a Kentucky playwright and historian.  Research materials and oral history interview transcripts relate to Jones’ interests in historic African American communities of the inner Bluegrass region and Jefferson County.  Other material regards her activities as a playwright, including scripts of Black Hamlets in the Kentucky Bluegrass and her adaptation of Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb to the stage.  Her interest in feminism is also documented by her involvement in women’s organizations and her dramatic productions about the lives of black women.

Folders 1-11 contain Jones’ research on historic African American communities of Louisville.  The materials include her research notes and interviews with community residents, as well as correspondence and grant application regarding the publication of Voices: From Historical African American Communities near Louisville, Kentucky (2015).  Also included are research materials related to slavery at Locust Grove and Farmington plantations, and a report regarding the development of Anchorage.

Folders 12-15 concern Jones’ work with the Oldham County Historical Society on a project to honor Henry Bibb, a former slave who became the first black editor of a Canadian newspaper.  The project included efforts to develop a heritage trail following Bibb’s journey to freedom, as well as Jones’ adaptation of Bibb’s autobiography into a play “Voice of the Fugitive”.

Folders 16-28 concern Jones’ research and writings about black hamlets of the inner Bluegrass region.  Established by emancipated slaves after the Civil War, these communities supplied much of the labor to the Bluegrass’s Thoroughbred horse industry.  Materials include scripts from her play “Black Hamlets of the Kentucky Bluegrass” as well as a compilation of historical readings entitled “Women of Freetowns.”

Folders 29-32 contain materials relating to Jones’ involvement in women’s organizations and interests in feminism.

Folders 33-34 contain interview transcripts and materials related to oral history projects Jones conducted for Sigma Pi Phi fraternity and Sallie Bingham.

Folder 35 contains poems and stories written by Carridder Jones.

Folders 36-37 contain miscellaneous materials.

Photographs have been transferred to the Filson’s photo collection (017PC23).

A/V materials have also been separated from the collection.  These include several audio cassette tapes and DVDs of program recordings, play performances, and interviews (017PC23).

 

Related Collections:

Carridder Jones collection, 2000-2002. (Mss. A J76)

Carridder Jones photograph collection & A/V materials. (015PC55; 017PC23)

 

Folder List

Box 1

Folder 1: African American hamlets in Jefferson County, Kentucky: Oral history project with the Filson, 2000-2015 CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

Folder 2: Interviews with residents of African American hamlets in Jefferson County (alternate versions from Mss. A/J76 collection interviews), 2000-2002 CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

Folder 3: Interview and obituary of Arthur Meredith Walters (resident of James Taylor subdivision), 2004 CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

Folder 4: Notes from presentation re: African American hamlets of Louisville, c. 2003 CLICK TO ACCESS PDF

Folder 5: Correspondence re: publication of Voices: from Historical African American Communities near Louisville, Kentucky, 2015

Folder 6: Kentucky Foundation for Women, grant application re: publication of Voices, 2015

Folder 7: Research on Eliza Hundley Curtis Tevis Coleman of Newburg [Click to access PDF]

Folder 8: Research on the Wilson family of Jeffersontown, 1919-1946

Folder 9: “Job talk” re: archaeological excavations at Locust Grove slave quarters, esp. the risks faced by slaves and their religious beliefs

Folder 10: Research on slavery at Farmington Plantation, 1966-2000

Folder 11: “Town of Anchorage, Kentucky: Possibilities for Future Development” by Olmsted Brothers, 1916

Folder 12: Henry Bibb History Project: Summary and Full Report, 2005

Folder 13: Henry Bibb Heritage Trail Project research report, 2005

Folder 14: Henry Bibb project grant application to produce “Voice of the Fugitive”, c. 2007

Folder 15: “Voice of the Fugitive” script, c. 2007

Folder 16: Research on black hamlets in the inner Bluegrass region, c. 2003-2015

Folder 17: Interview transcripts with Smith family of Jonestown, Ky., undated

Folder 18: “The Partial History of Jonestown, Lexington, Kentucky” by Betty Smithers, 2001

Folder 19: Research and presentation notes re: Kentucky’s black jockeys, 2003-2005

Folder 20: Research on Will Harbut (groomsman for Man O’ War) and Maddoxtown, 1947-1999

Folder 21: Maddoxtown historical marker application, 2006-2007

Folder 22: Presentation notes re: New Zion, Ky., undated

Folder 23: “Black Hamlets in the Kentucky Bluegrass” script, 2001

Folder 24: “Black Hamlets in the Kentucky Bluegrass” script, 2002

Folder 25: “Black Hamlets in the Kentucky Bluegrass” script, undated

Folder 26: “Black Hamlets in the Kentucky Bluegrass” scripts on floppy disks, 2001-2003 – [Digital copies are available for in-house viewing.  Please see the reference desk or email gro.l1745942458aciro1745942458tsihn1745942458oslif1745942458@hcra1745942458eser1745942458.] 

Folder 27: “Women of Freetowns” script, 2002

Folder 28: “Women of Freetowns” historical readings, 2000

Folder 29: Women Who Write history and awards, 2004, 2010

Folder 30: Kentucky Women’s Book Festival promotional materials and articles, 2012-2016

Folder 31: “Remembering Aunt Jemima” by Breena Clarke & Glenda Dickerson, script and commentary, undated

Folder 32: “Thoughts of Slavery” letter by Frances Ann Kemble, presented by Carridder Jones, undated

Folder 33: Sigma Pi Phi oral history project, 2004-2006

Folder 34: Oral history project for Sallie Bingham re: Bingham family, 2009

Folder 35: Poems, stories, etc. by Carridder Jones, 1998, undated

Folder 36: Newspaper clippings re: 1937 flood, 2012

Folder 37: Miscellaneous, 2002-2016

Oversize

Folder 38: “Voice of the Fugitive” promotional poster, 2009

 

Subject Headings

African American neighborhoods – Kentucky – Louisville.

African American neighborhoods – Kentucky – Fayette County.

African American jockeys – Kentucky.

African American women – Kentucky.

African Americans – Kentucky.

African Americans in horseracing.

Bibb, Henry, 1815-

Bingham family.

Greek letter societies.

Harbut, Will, 1885-1947.

Horse farms – Kentucky.

Jeffersontown (Ky.)

Jonestown (Ky.)

Locust Grove (Louisville, Ky.)

Maddoxtown (Ky.)

New Zion (Ky.)

Sigma Pi Phi.

Slavery – Kentucky – Louisville.

Smith family.

Tevis, Eliza Curtis Hundley, ca. 1800-1890.

Theater – Kentucky.

Wilson family.

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator:  Good Home Grown Music (Franklin, Tenn.)

Title:  Business papers, 1998-2016 (bulk: 2000-2013)

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Collections.

Size of Collection:  9 cubic feet

Location Number:  Mss. BB G646

Scope and Content Note

This collection documents the creative and collaborative act of songwriting and the business side of music publishing through the records of a bluegrass music publishing company based in Franklin, Tennessee and owned by Dixie Hall. The bulk of the collection consists of eight cubic feet of song files alphabetically arranged at the folder level by song title. Folder labels list the songwriters in order of their contribution. Fifty-one songwriters are represented in the song folders, including Dixie Hall, Tom T. Hall, Troy Engle, William “Billy” P. Smith, Paul Humphrey, Michelle Nixon, Jeffrey Orr, and Heather Berry. The song files include typed and handwritten song lyric drafts, CDs and WAV files of demo and release audio recordings, and some correspondence with songwriters and record labels. The bulk of the files document Good Home Grown Music’s publishing activities, as documented by United States copyright registration forms, publishing agreements, work registration with BMI, and licensing reports from the Harry Fox Agency. Correspondence and mechanical licenses document the company’s interaction with over fifty American, Canadian, and English record labels. Lyric drafts and a rare ca. 2010 recording of Dixie Hall singing with co-writer Troy Engle a working run through of the song “You Go Girl” document her writing process. The collection documents Dixie Hall’s concern for receiving credit for her songwriting, as evident in handwritten corrections of the order of co-writers on mechanical licenses and typed final song lyrics. Letters and emails document Dixie Hall’s support of female songwriters and musicians.

The collection also contains four binders of compiled song records. The binders document some songs that are not represented in the individual song folders. Two binders, one organized alphabetically by artist and the other by song title, hold logs of the songs artists recorded and to whom Dixie Hall pitched songs. The remaining two binders are organized alphabetically by song title and contain typed lyrics and printed database entries for each song. The database entries include the names of songwriters, who recorded demos, whether or not songwriter contracts were signed, copyright information, registration numbers and clearance dates, dates and names for whom and when songs were pitched, and recording information.

CDs within the song files and a USB drive hold demo and release audio files of 343 songs published by Good Home Grown Music. The collection audio-visual inventory provides item level information on the 17.3 GB of audio files, including song title, recording artist, and date of creation.

BMI clearance forms, working registration forms, and single song publishing agreements contain sensitive personal information and are currently restricted.

Related collections:
2016.6 Tom T. and Dixie Hall Instrument Collection, Filson Museum Collection

Biographical Note

Dixie Hall founded the bluegrass song publishing company Good Home Grown Music in 1998 in Franklin, Tennessee. The company published Hall’s songs, songs she co-wrote, and songs by other bluegrass songwriters. She opened the studio at her (and husband Tom T. Hall’s) Tennessee estate, Fox Hollow, to artists who recorded the company’s songs. Hall pitched her songs to artists through letters, email, phone calls, and in person. She promoted the company at bluegrass festivals and the International Bluegrass Music Association Business Conference. Hall used her company to support women in bluegrass music, particularly through the publishing of female songwriters and release of the Daughters of Bluegrass box sets.

“Miss Dixie” Hall was born Iris Violet May Lawrence in Birmingham, England, in 1934. American country and western movies kindled her interest in country music and horses as a child. Under the name Dixie Dean, she began her music business career in England by promoting Tex Ritter and Bill Clifton and the Dixie Mountain Boys to record labels, and writing for Country And Western Express. She moved to the United States in 1961 to take a promotion and publicity job with Starday Records in Nashville. Dean befriended and lived with Maybelle Carter and her family in Madison, Tennessee. She gained early experience managing a music publishing company by starting Flatt & Scrugg Music with Louise Scruggs. At Music City News, Dean rose from a general office worker to writer and editor. Dixie married country songwriter and musician Tom T. Hall in 1964 and stepped back from her career in the music industry. In the late 1990s, Miss Dixie returned to commercial songwriting and publishing after her husband retired from touring. She founded the bluegrass publishing company Good Home Grown Music and record label Blue Circle Records in 1998. She was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2014 and died January 16, 2015. Musicians made over 500 recordings of Miss Dixie’s songs during her lifetime, distinguishing her as the most recorded female bluegrass songwriter of all time.

Sources:
Jacobi, Lisa. “Artist2Artist with Dixie Hall.” Bluegrass Today. January 20, 2015. https://bluegrasstoday.com/artist2artist-with-dixie-hall/ (accessed July 31, 2017).

Rosenblum, Aaron. “From Fox Hollow to The Filson: The Tom T. and Dixie Hall Musical Instrument and Song Collections.” The Filson 16 (Summer 2016): 5.

“Dixie Hall, prolific bluegrass songwriter dies at 80.” Tennessean. January 17, 2015. http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/01/17/dixie-hall-prolific-bluegrass-songwriter-dies/21914181/ (accessed July 31, 2017).

Cardwell, Nancy. “Dixie Hall.” Bluegrass Unlimited. November 1, 2013. http://bluegrassmusic.com/content/ 2013/feature/dixie-hall/ (accessed July 31, 2017).

Folder List

Box 1
Item 1: Song Recording and Pitching Log by Artist
Item 2: Song Recording and Pitching Log by Title
Item 3: Song Records by Title, A-M
Item 4: Song Records by Title, N-Z

Box 2
Folder 5: 1-800 Lonesome: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 6: A Beautiful Home: Dixie Hall / Billy Smith / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2011
Folder 7: A Bridge That’s Going Nowhere: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2008-2009
Folder 8: A Carter Family Song: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2012-2014
Folder 9: A Headstone for Harry: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2003-2010
Folder 10: A Hero in Harlan: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2011
Folder 11: A Light in the Window, Again: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 12: A Little Bit More: Jimmy Martin / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2004-2009
Folder 13: A Picture of Jesus: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1998-2010
Folder 14: A Prisoner No More: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2009
Folder 15: A Prisoner’s Prayer: Heather Berry / Tony Mabe, 2008
Folder 16: A Rose for Marie: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 17: A Stranger in My Home Town: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 18: Ain’t He a Big Pig: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2007-2013
Folder 19: Ain’t Nobody Here But Me and Jesus: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Billy Smith, 2004-2011
Folder 20: Ain’t Sunday a Wonderful Thing: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 21: Ain’t That Just Like God: Joshua Ogle, 2007
Folder 22: All I Knew of Heaven: Tom T. Hall / Billy Smith, 2015
Folder 23: All That’s Left: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2005-2014
Folder 24: Always Looking Back: Casey Byrd / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Mitchell Freeman / Jacob Long, 2009-2012
Folder 25: Angel on a Shelf: Tom T. Hall / Billy Smith / Dixie Hall, 2004-2011
Folder 26: Angels Gathering Flowers: Troy Engle / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 27: Aunt Penny: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Billy Smith, 2013
Folder 28: Back to Calvary: Paul Humphrey, Jeffrey Orr, and Keith Williams, 2003-2004
Folder 29: Back to the Well: Lorraine Jordan / Dixie Hall, 2005-2006
Folder 30: Be What You’re Wanting Your Neighbor to Be: Dixie Hall / Troy Engle, 2009-2010
Folder 31: The Bean Blossom Bird: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2006-2011
Folder 32: The Beautiful Shore: Edward Efaw, 2013
Folder 33: Big Blue Roses: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2007-2012
Folder 34: Black Ink, Blue Paper: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2010
Folder 35: Blow Out the Candle, Laura: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2005-2010
Folder 36: Bluebird in the Rain: Dixie Hall. Tom T. Hall, 2000-2013
Folder 37: The Bluefield W. VA Blues: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2013-2015
Folder 38: Blues for Breakfast: Tom T. Hall / Billy Smith / Dixie Hall, 2002-2011
Folder 39: The Boys in Hats and Ties: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Don Rigsby, 2007-2012
Folder 40: Broken Angel: Dale Haverstick / Frank Ray, 2007-2010
Folder 41: Broken Heart and a Worried Mind: Edward Efaw, 2013
Folder 42: Brothers for Him: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 43: Buildings Ain’t Churches: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2011-2013
Folder 44: Building a Church: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Troy Engle, 2005-2010
Folder 45: Burning Down the Barn: Tom T. Hall, Dixie Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 46: Carolina Road: Dixie Hall, Tom T. Hall, 2007-2010
Folder 47: Call on Me: Ken Scoggins, 2008-2012
Folder 48: Can You Hear Me Now: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Johnny Williams, 2005-2009
Folder 49: Carolina State of Mind: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2005-2013
Folder 50: Christmas Again: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2009
Folder 51: Christmas in Carolina: Dixie Hall, 2007-2010
Folder 52: Christmas on the Farm: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010
Folder 53: Christmas Ribbon Red: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010
Folder 54: The Christmas Whittler: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010-2011
Folder 55: Clinch Mountain Mystery: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2001-2011
Folder 56: The Coal Miner’s Dream: Dixie Hall, 2000-2010

Box 3
Folder 57: Come and Get Me: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010
Folder 58: Come and See Me: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 59: Coon’s Up a Tree: Dixie Hall, 2000-2010
Folder 60: Creecy Greens: Dixie Hall, Tom T. Hall, 1999-2013
Folder 61: Daddy’s Chair: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2003-2010
Folder 62: Daddy’s Girl: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 63: Daddy Was a Moonshine Man: Jim Kelly, 2003-2006
Folder 64: Dancin’ in the Dirt: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2009
Folder 65: Desmoranda: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2013
Folder 66: Do Something for Jesus Today: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2013
Folder 67: Don’t Let Go of My Hand: Dixie Hall / Troy Engle / Tom T. Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 68: Don’t Talk to Strangers: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2000-2010
Folder 69: Down Hearted: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 70: Down Home Blues: Dixie Hall, 1998-2010
Folder 71: Eights Steps Toward the Lord: Larry Efaw / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2013
Folder 72: Elvis on Velvet, Monroe on Grass: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2000-2010
Folder 73: Empty Old Mailbox: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 1999-2013
Folder 74: Every Drop of His Blood: William Robertson, 2010-2012
Folder 75: Everybody Got a Light: Troy Engle / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2013
Folder 76: Everyday is Mother’s Day: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Larry Stephenson, 2005-2010
Folder 77: The Face in the Window: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2001-2009
Folder 78: Family Reunion, Amen: Dixie Hall / Joe Isaacs, 2004-2010
Folder 79: The Farm: Dixie Hall, 1998-2010
Folder 80: Fiddle in My Head: Dixie Hall / Billy Smith, 2013
Folder 81: Fifty Years of Bluegrass: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 82: The Filly and the Farm: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2010
Folder 83: The First Gift of Christmas: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2010
Folder 84: The First Rose: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 85: Flat Tire on the Interstate Blues: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 1999-2010
Folder 86: The Flood on Stoney Creek: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 87: Flowers for the Funeral of Love: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 88: Follow Me Back to the Fold: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1999-2013
Folder 89: Footpath to Heaven: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 90: For Better or Worse: Troy Engle / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2011-2013
Folder 91: Forgotten in Time: Ken Scoggins / Doug Rankin, 2008-2012
Folder 92: Forty Years of Lonesome: Don Rigsby / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 93: Fries With That: Dixie Hall / Rebecca Isaacs Bowman / Sonya Isaacs, 2007-2010
Folder 94: Get in the Boat: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2013
Folder 95: The Girls are Looking Better: Dixie Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 96: Give Me Time to Think it Over: Edward Efaw, 2013
Folder 97: Go Up on the Mountain and Wait: Dixie T. Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2008-2013
Folder 98: The Good Old Gospel Story: William Robertson, 2010-2012
Folder 99: Good Ole Gospel Music: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2006-2010
Folder 100: Gospel Alibis: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2010
Folder 101: The Government Blues: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2013
Folder 102: Grandma’s Songs: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 103: The Grave Robber: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2013
Folder 104: The Hanging of Dudley Malone: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2003-2010
Folder 105: Harlan: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 106: Have a Safe Trip Home: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Jeff Orr, 2010-2012

Box 4:
Folder 107: Hazel Creek: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2004-2013
Folder 108: He Knows the Way: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2011-2013
Folder 109: He Loves to Hear You Shout: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2005-2013
Folder 110: He Treats Me Like An Only Child: Paul Humphrey, 2003-2004
Folder 111: He’s the One: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2011-2013
Folder 112: Hell and Half of Georgia: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 113: Hello Bluebird: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 114: Here We Go A-Going: Dixie Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 115: Here’s To You Slim Dusty: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2000-2010
Folder 116: High Lonesome Love: Dixie Hall, 1998-2010
Folder 117: Hillbilly Highway: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 118: Holding on When You’ve Let Go: Eric Gibson / Dixie Hall, 1999-2010
Folder 119: Homesick for the Hills: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 120: Hound Dog Blues: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2008-2013
Folder 121: Hound Dog from Harlan: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2011-2015
Folder 122: How Are You: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2010
Folder 123: How Come I Don’t See Robins Anymore: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010
Folder 124: How’s It Feel: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Troy Engle, 2004-2011
Folder 125: The Hummingbird Man: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2011-2013
Folder 126: I Aint Never Going Home Again: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2013
Folder 127: I Can Make It Happen: Rebekah Long / Dixie Hall, 2012-2013
Folder 128: I Can’t Get By Without Jesus: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 129: I Cried All the Way to Kentucky: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2005-2010
Folder 130: I Didn’t See It Coming: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2000-2015
Folder 131: I Don’t Live There Anymore: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2011-2013
Folder 132: I Don’t See What I Once Saw In You: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1999-2010
Folder 133: I Don’t Think I’m Going Back to Harlan: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2007-2013
Folder 134: I Fought the World’s Biggest Bulldog: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 135: I Got the Moon On My Side: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Troy Engle, 2013-2014
Folder 136: I Know Rain: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Billy Smith, 2004-2011
Folder 137: I Learn Something New Every Day: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2011-2013
Folder 138: I Love You To the Moon and Back: Larry McPeak / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 139: I Made a Friend of a Flower Today: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2007-2014
Folder 140: I Remember Sunday Mornings: William E. Robertson, 2013
Folder 141: I Should Have Been Blue: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 142: I Think About Her All the Time: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 143: I Think I Hear a Train: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010
Folder 144: I Want My Dog Back: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2012-2014
Folder 145: I Want to Play the Banjo (In a Bluegrass Band): Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1999-2010
Folder 146: I Want You to Meet My Friend: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2003-2013
Folder 147: I Was: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2012
Folder 148: I Wish I’d Said That: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010
Folder 149: I Wish That I Could’ve Met Carter: Dixie Hall, 2011-2014
Folder 150: If Anybody’s Sorry: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2003-2010
Folder 151: If I Ever Get Home: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 152: If It Rains Another Drop: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 153: If Jesus Comes Back on a Sunday: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 154: I’ll Cross Over Jordan Someday: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2000-2010
Folder 155: I’ll Get to See Mother Again: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2008-2009
Folder 156: I’ll Never See Mary Again: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2011

Box 5:
Folder 157: I’ll Not Stand in Your Way: Dixie Hall, 2013
Folder 158: I’m a Coal Mining Man: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2006-2010
Folder 159: I’m Building A Stairway to Heaven: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 160: I’m Going Up When He Comes Down: Paul Humphrey and Jeff Orr, 2004-2012
Folder 161: I’m Gonna Love You Now: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2005-2013
Folder 162: I’m Gonna Make Up a Song About You: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 163: I’m Gonna Try: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2011-2013
Folder 164: I’m Not Moving Mountains Anymore: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010
Folder 165: I’m Not Living Life (It’s Living Me): Billy Smith / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 166: I’m Putting On My Leaving Shoes: Dixie Hall / Troy Engle / Tom T. Hall, 2012-2013
Folder 167: In Heaven She’ll Live On and On: Jeff Orr and Paul Humphrey, 2004-2009
Folder 168: Independent Rose: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 1999-2013
Folder 169: It’s All About Love: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2011-2012
Folder 170: It’s Somebody’s Birthday Today: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Troy Engle, 2012
Folder 171: It’s Time To Give Jesus A Try: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2003-2010
Folder 172: I’ve Got A Home: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2005-2010
Folder 173: I’ve Got A Thing About Doors: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2005-2010
Folder 174: The Jackson Boys: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2009
Folder 175: Jesus and Bocephus: Jeff Orr, 2010-2015
Folder 176: Jesus is Cool: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2011-2012
Folder 177: Jimmy Martin Songs for Dinner: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1999-2013
Folder 178: Jimmy Martin’s Life Story: Jimmy Martin / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 179: Joan Henry: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 180: Joe: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1998-2010
Folder 181: The Journey: Paul Humphrey / Jeffrey Orr, 2003-2010
Folder 182: Just Get Over It: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010
Folder 183: Katie’s Last Waltz: Doug Rankin, 2008-2012
Folder 184: Keep Me in Your Prayers: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2007-2013
Folder 185: Keep on Walking: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2006-2013
Folder 186: Keeping It in the Family: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 187: Kentucky in the Rain: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2013
Folder 188: Kentucky Noel: Chris Jones / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010
Folder 189: Killer on the Loose: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 190: The Knoxville Boy: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 191: The Last Battle: Oscar Harris / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010-2012
Folder 192: The Last Bridge out of Richmond: Dale Jett / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010-2013
Folder 193: Last of the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2011-2015
Folder 194: Laugh to Keep from Crying: Ken Scoggins, 2008-2012
Folder 195: Leaving Baker County: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 1999-2010
Folder 196: Leaving Here for Nashville: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2005-2013
Folder 197: Lessons in Stone: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Ken Irwin, 2001-2010
Folder 198: Let Me Be Your Escort: Michelle Nixon, 2002-2010
Folder 199: Let Me Catch A Fish: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2005-2010
Folder 200: Let Me Fly Low: Dixie Hall, 2000-2013
Folder 201: Let’s All Shine: Dixie Hall / Troy Engle / Tom T. Hall, 2005-2010
Folder 202: Let’s Go Walking Again: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Troy Engle, 2013
Folder 203: Let’s Not Go There: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2000-2010
Folder 204: Listen to the Wind: Paul Humphrey / Jeffrey Orr, 2003-2004
Folder 205: The Little Man: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010
Folder 206: Little Mountain Home: Edward Efaw, 2013
Folder 207: Little Ole Fish: Troy Engle / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2005-2010
Folder 208: Little White Cross on Highway 13: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2000-2010
Folder 209: Little White Lies (in a Little White Church): Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1999-2010

Box 6:
Folder 210: Lord, It’s A Hard Road Home: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2004-2010
Folder 211: Love Is A Gamble: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2014
Folder 212: Love Is A Jigsaw Puzzle: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2004-2016
Folder 213: Maiden’s Dilemma: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2010
Folder 214: Mama, Remember: Dixie Hall, 1998-2013
Folder 215: Mama What Does Heaven Look Like There: Troy Engle / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2005-2010
Folder 216: Mama’s Flower Bed: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2003-2010
Folder 217: Mama’s Sunday Ride: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2003-2010
Folder 218: The Man on the Side of the Road: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1998-2012
Folder 219: Maybe it was a Dream: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2013
Folder 220: The Meanest Lady Cop: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2012-2013
Folder 221: Men: Dixie Hall, 2012-2013
Folder 222: Merry Christmas You All: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010
Folder 223: The Midnight Call: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 224: Miss Linda’s Merchantile Store: Dixie Hall, 2001-2003
Folder 225: Molly and Mildred: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1999-2013
Folder 226: The Moon Aint Square: David Stevens / Valerie Smith / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall,
Folder 227: The Moon Has A Mind of It’s Own: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 228: Mother’s Silent Prayer: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Troy Engle, 2010-2013
Folder 229: Mountain High, Feeling Low: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2000-2001
Folder 230: Mountain Songbird: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Stella Parton, 2013-2015
Folder 231: Mountaineer Conscript: Bradley Foster Smith, 2011-2013
Folder 232: My Bad: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010-2013
Folder 233: My Dog Ate My Drivers License: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Billy Smith, 2013
Folder 234: My Faith’s in Bobby Lee: Dale Jett / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010
Folder 235: My Little World: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2013
Folder 236: My Smoky Mountain Man: Dixie Hall, 1998-2010
Folder 237: Nelson and the Mountain: Chris Jones / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 238: Never Can Forgive ‘Til I Forget: Michelle Nixon / Dixie Hall, 2012-2013
Folder 239: New Pair of Glasses: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Billy Smith, 2002-2011
Folder 240: The Next Train: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2009-2013
Folder 241: No Matter: Michelle Dixon, 2001-2010
Folder 242: No Matter How Hard I Cry: Jeffrey Orr / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2004-2013
Folder 243: Nobody Home: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2003-2013
Folder 244: Nobody Knows You Like I Do: Dixie Hall / Billy Smith / Tom T. Hall, 2012-2013
Folder 245: None For Me But You: Heather Berry / Tony Mabe, 2008-2010
Folder 246: Nothin’ About Trains: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2011-2013
Folder 247: Nothing But The Curtains: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 248: Nugent Family Band: Alecia Nugent / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2011
Folder 249: Oh, Christmas Candle: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2003-2010
Folder 250: The Old Crooked Trail: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2003-2009
Folder 251: The Old Family Home: Dixie Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 252: The Old Family Table: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 1999-2013
Folder 253: The Old Farmers Prayer: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2006-2010
Folder 254: The Old Guitar Case: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2011-2012
Folder 255: The Old Unfinished Quilt: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2010
Folder 256: The Old Wood and Strings: Heather Berry, 2005-2010
Folder 257: Ole Billy Ray’s Chickens: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2010

Box 7:
Folder 258: On A Bluegrass Bus: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Larry Stephenson, 2008-2010
Folder 259: Once Upon A Road: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2000-2011
Folder 260: One Door Away: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 261: One Empty Chair: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010
Folder 262: One Foot in Front of the Other: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010
Folder 263: One More Last Chance: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 264: One of Those Days: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2006-2011
Folder 265: Our Little World: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2011
Folder 266: Ozark Mountain Memories: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1999-2010
Folder 267: Papa Loved Ringing That Bell: Johnny Williams / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 268: The Part of Lester Flatt: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2011
Folder 269: Pay As You Go: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 270: Peanut Lovin’ Man: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2003-2009
Folder 271: Pickin’ Like A Girl: Dixie Hall, 2012-2013
Folder 272: Picking Up Coal: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 273: Pity Party: Tom T. Hall, 2011-2012
Folder 274: The Poor Farmer’s Prayer: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 275: Poor Little Sadie: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2013
Folder 276: Poverty Row: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 277: Pray Right Here: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Jeannette Williams, 2011-2013
Folder 278: Prepare to Meet Eternity: Joshua Ogle, 2007
Folder 279: The Pretty Blue Dress: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 280: Pretty Girls: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010-2013
Folder 281: Pretty Green Hills: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2012
Folder 282: Proud to be a Daughter of Bluegrass: Dixie Hall, 2008-2013
Folder 283: Public Enemy Number One: Heather Berry / Tony Mabe, 2008-2010
Folder 284: The Rhinestone Prisoner: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 285: Riding in the Back of the Wagon: Tom T. Hall / Billy Smith / Dixie Hall, 2004-2011
Folder 286: The Road That Took You There: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2001-2005
Folder 287: Sally in Poor Valley: Dixie Hall, 2000-2010
Folder 288: Scenes from an Old Country Graveyard: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2006-2013
Folder 289: Scissors and Paper: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2006-2010
Folder 290: The Silver Bugle: Charlie Sizemore / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 291: Sit Down and Cry: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1999-2013
Folder 292: Shorty is Forty: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2000-2010
Folder 293: Smile for Me: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010-2011
Folder 294: Solid Gold Band: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2000-2009
Folder 295: Someone Else’s Shoes: Jeanette Williams / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2011-2012
Folder 296: Someone Made the Sandals Jesus Wore: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2005-2010
Folder 297: Something About Homemade Biscuits: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 1999-2010
Folder 298: Something I Do All the Time: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2003-2010
Folder 299: Something in the Water: Bobby Cyrus / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2011-2012
Folder 300: Sometimes the Good News is Bad News: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1999-2010
Folder 301: Somewhere in Kentucky Tonight: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2000-2013
Folder 302: Song Maker: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2007-2013
Folder 303: The Stanley Brothers: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2010
Folder 304: The Straight and Narrow Way: Paul Humphrey / Jeffrey Orr, 2003-2004
Folder 305: Sunny Flower One: Dixie Hall, 2014
Folder 306: Sunset in June: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Billy Smith, 2002-2011
Folder 307: Taking the Crooked Road Home: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 308: Take Just A Minute For Him: Dixie Hall / Troy Engle / Tom T. Hall, 2005-2013
Folder 309: Talking to the Birds: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 310: Take Me With You: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2013
Folder 311: Taking the Back Roads Home: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 1999-2010
Folder 312: Tall Weeds and Rust: Don Rigsby / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2006-2010
Folder 313: Taylor County Jail: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1998-2010
Folder 314: Tennessee is a Memory: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Billy Smith, 2013

Box 8:
Folder 315: Thank You For Caring: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 316: That’s Kentucky: Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle / Dixie Hall, 2008-2013
Folder 317: Then Y’Aint: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2010
Folder 318: (There Ought to be) More to Love Than This: Dixie Hall, 1998-2013
Folder 319: There’s A Light on the Mountain: Dixie Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 320: There’s Always A Light In the Church: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2000-2013
Folder 321: They Called It A Church: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Billy Smith, 2002-2013
Folder 322: They Don’t Make Girls Like Ruby Anymore: Keith Bilbrey / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2005-2010
Folder 323: This Ain’t No Way To Run A Railroad: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2013
Folder 324: Three Silver Dollars: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2005-2010
Folder 325: Tired of Losing You: Billy Smith / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2013
Folder 326: To A Dove: Dixie Hall, 2000-2013
Folder 327: Tom: Don Rigsby / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2001-2010
Folder 328: Tomorrow: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010
Folder 329: Too Busy: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2011-2012
Folder 330: The Toy Fiddle: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 331: Train Songs: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2004-2013
Folder 332: Train without a Track: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 333: Trip to Kentucky: Tom T. Hall / Charlie Sizemore / Terry Comer, 2005-2012
Folder 334: Trouble, Let Me Be: Billy Smith / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2010-2013
Folder 335: True Love Will Win: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2007-2010
Folder 336: Trust and Pray: Dixie Hall / Troy Engle / Tom T. Hall, 2006-2010
Folder 337: Tuff Town: Dixie Hall / Brad Wolf, 2004-2011
Folder 338: Twins: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Billy Smith, 2013
Folder 339: Uncle Ermine’s Fiddle: Dixie Hall, 2008-2010
Folder 340: Virginia: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2006-2010
Folder 341: Waiting on the Sun to Shine: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2004-2010
Folder 342: Walk This Way: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Troy Engle, 2011-2012
Folder 343: Walk Slow: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2011-2013
Folder 344: Walking in the Light: Troy Engle / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 345: Walking Through Bethlehem: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Billy Smith, 2010-2013
Folder 346: Water for the Horses: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall / Billy Smith, 2013
Folder 347: We Still Have Forever To Go: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2000-2010
Folder 348: Welcome Aboard: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2007-2010
Folder 349: Welcoming Tomb: Dixie Hall, 2001-2013
Folder 350: We’ll Burn That Bridge: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2003-2011
Folder 351: What A Man (My Jesus Was): Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2009-2010
Folder 352: What are You Trying To Say: Tom T. Hall / Johnny Williams / Dixie Hall, 2004-2009
Folder 353: Whatever Happened to Julie: James King / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2002-2010
Folder 354: When Billy Gets Back: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Billy Smith, 2013
Folder 355: When It’s Christmas in Virginia: Michelle Nixon / Jerry Nixon / Dixie Hall, 2003-2010
Folder 356: When the Sun Comes Out Again: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2007-2012
Folder 357: Where I Am: Chris Jones / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010-2015
Folder 358: Where’s the Lonesome: Troy Engle / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2010
Folder 359: Whiskey Willie: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2003-2010
Folder 360: Whisper Among the Throng: Billy Robertson, 2009-2011
Folder 361: Who I Am: William E. Robertson, 2013
Folder 362: Will You Ever Be Satisfied: Billy Smith / Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2003-2011
Folder 363: The Windowsill Song: Beck Buller / Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2012-2013
Folder 364: Wings Against the Moon: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 1998-2010
Folder 365: The Writing’s on the Wall: Michelle Nixon, 2001-2003
Folder 366: Yes, He Can: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2008-2013
Folder 367: You Can’t Grow an Onion Upside Down: 2008-2013
Folder 368: You Go Girl: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Troy Engle, 2010-2013
Folder 369: You Will Always Be A Flower: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall, 2000-2010

Box 9:
Folder 370: You Wore Out Your Welcome, Mat: Dixie Hall, Troy Engle, Tom T. Hall, 2010-2011
Folder 371: You’re Good To Go: Tom T. Hall / Dixie Hall, 2009-2013
Folder 372: You’re Still in My Heart: Jeff Orr and Paul Humphrey, 2004-2016
Folder 373: You’re with Us, Ain’t You Lord: Dixie Hall / Tom T. Hall / Billy Smith, 2004-2011
Folder 374: Your Memory Followed Me Home: Dixie Hall, 1998-2013
Folder 375: Restricted items from box 2
Folder 376: Restricted items from box 3
Folder 377: Restricted items from box 4
Folder 378: Restricted items from box 5
Folder 379: Restricted items from box 6
Folder 380: Restricted items from box 7
Folder 381: Restricted items from box 8
Folder 382: Restricted items from box 9

Subject Headings

Alliance Entertainment (Coral Springs, Fla.)
Barn Built Productions (Gilroy, Canada)
Bell Buckle Records (Bell Buckle, Tenn.)
Berry, Heather, 1987-
Big Country Bluegrass
Bill Wence Promotions (Nolensville, Tenn.)
Blue Circle Records (Franklin, Tenn.)
Bluegrass musicians
Brewer, Gary
Business – Records
Businesswomen – Tenn – Franklin
Cannon Productions (Nashville, Tenn.)
CB Music, LLC (Nashville, Tenn.)
Chateau Music Group (Cumming, Ga.)
Clinch Mountain (Va.)
CMH Records (Los Angeles, Calif.)
CMT Productions (Nashville, Tenn.)
Coal mine accidents – West Virginia
Compass Records (Nashville, Tenn.)
Composers – Indiana – Richmond
Composers – Kentucky – Big Hill
Composers – Kentucky – Cadiz
Composers – Kentucky – Isonville
Composers – Kentucky – Louisa
Composers – Massachusetts – Newburyport
Composers – Missouri – Blue Eye
Composers – Missouri – Springfield
Composers – New York – Brainardsville
Composers – North Carolina – Mount Airy
Composers – North Carolina – Pilot
Composers – NorthCarolina – Walnut Cove
Composers – Ohio – Akron
Composers – South Carolina – Mountain Rest
Composers – South Carolina – Rock Hill
Composers – Tennessee – Chuckey
Composers – Tennessee – Church Hill
Composers – Tennessee – College Grove
Composers – Tennessee – Cottontown
Composers – Tennessee – Flintville
Composers – Tennessee – Franklin
Composers – Tennessee – Goodlettsville
Composers – Tennessee – Hendersonville
Composers – Tennessee – Hermitage
Composers – Tennessee – LaFollette
Composers – Tennessee – Madison
Composers – Tennessee – Manchester
Composers – Tennessee – Nashville
Composers – Tennessee – Old Hickory
Composers – Tennessee – Russellville
Composers – Tennessee – White House
Composers – Virginia – Amelia
Composers – Virginia – Danville
Composers – Virginia – Hiltons
Composers – Virginia – Louisa
Composers – Virginia – Mendota
Composers – Virginia – Wytheville
Composers – Washington, D.C.
Copper Creek Records (Roanoke, Va.)
Country gospel music
Country Thunder Records (Nashville, Tenn.)
Daywind Records (Hendersonville, Tenn.)
Do Write Music (Nashville, Tenn.)
Doobie Shea Records (Boones Mill, Va.)
Echomusic (Nashville, Tenn.)
Efaw, Larry, 1930-
Engle, Troy Anthony, 1977-
Evening Star Productions (Akron, Ohio)
FestivaLink.net (Boulder, Colo.)
Goodtyme Productions (Prestonburg, Ky.)
Hall, Tom T., 1936-
Hank Williams, Jr Enterprises (Paris, Tenn.)
Harris, Oscar, 1951-
Hay Holler Records (Blacksburg, Va.)
Hilltop Recording Studio (Nashville, Tenn.)
Holladay, Ryan, 1994-
International Bluegrass Music Association (Nashville, Tenn)
Irwin, Kenneth R., 1944-
Isaacs, Joe, 1947-
Jett, Dale, 1957-
Jones, Christopher D., 1959-
Jordan Entertainment Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.)
Jordan, Lorraine, 1958-
Kid Rock (Rapper)
Koch Entertainment (New York, N.Y.)
Lambert, Miranda, 1983-
Larry Efaw and the Bluegrass Mountaineers
Lay, Linda
Legacy Productions (Minneapolis, Minn.)
Little Cabin Records (Big Hill, Ky.)
Lonesome Day (Booneville, Ky.)
Lonesome Pine Office on Youth (Big Stone Gap, Va.)
Mabe, Tony, 1986-
Mark Newton Entertainment Agency (Fredericksburg, Va.)
McGarry, Janet
Mooney, Frances
Moore, Nancy
Mountain Fever Records (Willis, Va.)
Mountain Roads Recordings (Bristol, Tenn.)
Music business
Music industry
Music publishing
Musicians Against Childhood Cancer
Newton, Mark
Nixon, Michelle T., 1963-
Nugent, Alecia
Orr, Jeffrey Lee, 1966-
Parton, Stella, 1949-
Pinecastle Records (Orlando, Fla.)
Pisgah Ridge Records (Arden, N.C.)
Prime Time Country (Nashville, Tenn.)
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Raintree Records (Hendersonville, Tenn.)
Rebel Records (Charlottesville, Va.)
Red Beet Records (Nashville, Tenn.)
Red Shale Records (Leedey, Okla.)
Rigsby, Don, 1968-
Robertson, William E., 1956-
Rooster Records (Catlettsburg, Ky.)
Rounder Records (Cambridge, Mass.)
Rural Rhythm (Mt. Juliet, Tenn.)
Scripps Networks (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Smith, Bradley Foster, 1981-
Smith, William P., 1956-
Songs – Texts.
Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Stanley, Ralph, II
Stretchgrass Productions (Louisville, Ky.)
Sugar Hill Records (Santa Monica, Cali.)
The Creative Services Company (Nashville, Tenn.)
The Crooked Road Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail (Abingdon, Va.)
Thoroughbred Records (Hendersonville, Tenn.)
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Tennessee Division.
Universal Music Canada (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster, W. Va., 2010
Vine Records (Nashville, Tenn.)
Williams, Hank, Jr., 1949-
Williams, Jeanette, 1965-
WNCW (Spindal, N.C.)
Women composers.
Women-owned business enterprises
World Music Network (London, England)
Young, Angie C., 1975-

Held by The Filson Historical Society

Creator: Braswell, Ethel O., 1898-1972

Title: Papers, 1918-1922

Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Curator of Collections.

Size of Collection:  0.66 cubic feet and 1 ovsz. folder

Location Number:  Mss. A/B823

Scope and Content Note

The Ethel Braswell papers contain records pertaining to her work for the federal government during World War I, as well as her service as a Reconstruction Aide in Occupational Therapy at Camp Zachary Taylor following the war’s end. Papers consist of correspondence, diary entries, official documents, holiday cards, magazines, souvenir booklets, and newspapers.

Braswell’s correspondence includes letters to and from friends in Washington, D.C. such as Harold Schell, Nick, Sadie, Maurice Gray, Clara L., and a romance interest “Hank.” She also corresponds with her family members, including her sister Emma “Mattie” Braswell, Lottie Wilmott Braswell, and her father, James Braswell. The correspondence between friends from Washington, D.C. and Camp Taylor regard personal life, gossip, advice, and anecdotes riddled with sarcasm. Ethel’s correspondence with Harold Schell is particularly sarcastic. Correspondence with her family members describe her experiences in Washington, D.C. and her opinion of Camp Taylor upon arrival and throughout her time in Kentucky.

Ethel Braswell’s diary entries provide descriptive information on the two months she was employed as a Reconstruction Aide at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. She describes the barracks, and her encounters with officers, including Captain Cummings, Surgeon General Ireland, Colonel Billings and General March. She also describes the soldiers she meets and teaches such as Sergeant Foley, Private Hillman, Bowman, Domikas, Richey, Geis, Rose and many more. Braswell teaches the soldiers English grammar, math, reading and typing. She provides her assessment of soldiers’ grade levels and comments on the lack of education among them. In addition to her duties as a teacher, Braswell also edits issues of Camp Taylor’s Daily Bulletin. She mentions leisure time activities with her fellow aides and teachers, Ms. Roberts, Ms. Hearns, Ms. Blakey, Ms. Beatty, etc., such as going to shows, going to “eating places”, picnics in Cherokee and Iroquois parks, and a trip to Mammoth Cave.
Ethel Braswell’s service record provides information on Reconstruction Aide duties, payment and expectations.

Souvenirs included in the collection consist of booklets and postcards from Camp Taylor and Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky.

Miscellaneous materials include issues of the Daily Bulletin published at Camp Taylor, periodicals related to the care and reconstruction of wounded soldiers, and a speech by William Jennings Bryan.

An oversize folder includes newspaper issues that Braswell received during her time at Camp Taylor, including Trench And Camp (May 26 & June 9, 1919), and Over the Top (June 25, 1919). Articles regard opportunities for disabled soldiers to improve work skills, editorials, poems and medical news.

Biographical Note

Ethel Braswell was born in 1898 to James and Ophelia Braswell. She was their eldest child and grew up on a farm in Haddock, Georgia. When she was nineteen, she left Georgia and moved to Washington, D.C. where she joined her younger sister Emma “Mattie” Braswell. She arrived in Washington, D.C. on March 31st, 1918 and served during the remainder of World War I and the Reconstruction period. She originally was assigned to the War Risk Insurance Department. After the war, she was hired as a Reconstruction Aide through Medical Department of the United States Army. Her position as a Reconstruction Aide lasted from April 10th, 1919 to July 1st, 1919 at Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky. After she was discharged, she returned to Washington, D.C. She married Benjamin Pubols. In 1972, she died in Arlington, Virginia.

Folder List

Box 1
Folder 1: Personal correspondence, 1918
Folder 2: Personal correspondence, January-April 1919
Folder 3: Personal correspondence, May-December 1919
Folder 4: Personal correspondence, 1920
Folder 5: Journal during service as Reconstruction Aide at Camp Taylor, April-July 1919
Folder 6: “My pupils”, list of soldiers instructed by Braswell at Camp Taylor, 1919
Folder 7: U.S. Army service record, Reconstruction Aide at Camp Taylor, 1919-1922

Box 2
Folder 8: U.S. Army Base Hospital postcards and Camp Taylor souvenir booklet, 1919
Folder 9: Mammoth Cave postcards and souvenir booklet from Braswell’s trip in April 1919
Folder 10: Daily Bulletin newspaper, Education Department, Camp Taylor, April-June 1919
Folder 11: The Red Cross Magazine, November 1918
Folder 12: Publications re: Reconstruction work with wounded soldiers, June 1919
Folder 13: Official souvenir program, Victory Parades of U.S. Army, September 1919
Folder 14: William Jennings Bryan speech transcription, September 24, 1919

Oversize
Folder 15: Newspaper issues: Trench And Camp, May 26 & June 9, 1919. Over the Top, June 25, 1919.

Subject Headings

American Red Cross – Periodicals.
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925.
Camp Zachary Taylor (Ky.)
Camp Zachary Taylor (Ky.) – Newspapers.
Diseases.
Greeting cards.
Kentucky – Religious life and customs.
Kentucky – Social life and customs.
Mammoth Cave (Ky.) – Description and travel.
Military training camps – Kentucky – Louisville.
Occupational therapy.
Postwar reconstruction.
Segregation – Kentucky.
Soldiers – Education, Non-military.
Suicide.
Teachers – Kentucky – Louisville.
United States. Army – Minorities – History – 20th century.
United States. Bureau of War Risk Insurance.
U.S. Army Base Hospital (Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.)
Veterans – Services for – Kentucky.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918 – War work – Women.