MS15-01 Ruth E. Cole Collection

Collection Title: Ruth E. Cole Collection

Series Number: MS15-01

Processed and Cataloged by: Processed by Austin Desjardins

Date Span: 1923 - 2006

Size of Collection: 13 linear feet.

Number of Boxes: 10 large acid free Boxes, 2 medium acid free archival box, 1 small acid free archival box, 2 oversized archival boxes. 

Type of Material: Correspondence, research and subject files, photographs, genealogical

Condition of Material: Good.

Arrangement: Arranged by likeness and in the original order that it was brought to the library

Biographical / Historical Information: Ruth E. Cole served as chairperson of the Department of Nursing at Murray State University from 1954 to 1977. She was born on October 15, 1920 at Harris Grove in Calloway County, Kentucky. She graduated Lynn Grove High School in 1939 and later that same year enrolled at Murray State College. She transferred to the Nazareth School of Nursing at St. Joseph Hospital in Lexington in 1941 where she received a nursing diploma in 1944. She was called to active duty in the United States Navy Nurse Corp just prior to the conclusion of the Second World War. Following the war, Cole returned to Murray where she worked as an office nurse for a local doctor. In 1947, she was hired as the first faculty member of the newly formed Department of Nursing at Murray State. During the summers of 1948 and 1949, she attended the University of Texas where she attained a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing Education. When the Korean War broke out in 1951, she was recalled to active duty and served at various stateside naval bases and aboard the U.S.S. Darby. After the Korean War, she attended Columbia University where she received a Master of Arts degree in Nursing Education in 1954. She returned to Murray State later that year and was selected chairperson of the Department of Nursing. She held that position for 23 years. In 1973, she received a doctorate in Higher Education from Indiana University and in 1977 was named “Nurse Educator of the Year” by the Kentucky League for Nursing. In 1978, Cole accepted a position at Harding University as a professor in Nursing Education. She remained at Harding until 1980 when she returned to Murray and served as Program Director for the Murray-Calloway County Hospital Hospice Program. She retired a year later. Murray State named the nursing school’s auditorium in her honor in 1988 and in 1994 she was inducted into the Alumni Association Nursing Hall of Fame at the University of Texas. 

Scope and Content: The collection Consists of Genealogical Research, Genealogical Society information, and Murray State University Nursing History.

Box List:

Box 1 Genealogy A-G

1. Abling- Eldridge
2. Adams Family
3. Adams Hall
4. Adams- Howard- Boyd
5. Adams- Stephens
6. Armstrong Family
7. Armstrong- Garrison
8. Armstrong- Spilman
9. Austin, Dr. Clegg
10. Avert- Willoughby
11. Baugh- Easley- Wren
12. Beaman- Barton
13. Belcher, Tim & Family
14. Blalock
15. Boyd
16. Boyd- Farmer
17. Boaz- Roland
18. Broach, Robert
19. Broach McClure
20. Brumley
21. Caldwell- Kelso- Beamab- Outland
22. Cain- Farmer
23. Camp- Miller
24. Carter- Tidwell- Cooper
25. Cavitt- Lamb
26. Chambers Family
27. Chambers, Leon- Rogers Chambers
28. Chester- Ross
29. Clark, Jeffery
30. Clark, Ray & Linda
31. Clark- Wilkerson
32. Cleaver
33. Cochrum
34. Cohoon- Cunningham
35. Coleman- McClain
36. Commodore- Jones
37. Coone- Miller- James
38. Cooper, Hewlett- Adams
39. Cooper, R.L.- Erwin
40. Cooper- Spencer
41. Cooper, Roger's Family
42. Crane- Barnett
43. Crawford, Dennis- Jean
44. Crawford Family
45. Crouch- Brumley
46. Crouch- Boyett
47. Crouch- Sims
48. Denham, Grahm- Dunaway
49. Dixon- Kimbro
50. Dodds
51. Dorom
52. Douglas, Emma- Knight
53. Douglas, Fred
54. Douglass Family
55. Dowdy, Louis
56. Dowthett- Pickard
57. Dunn
58. Eaker- Hay
59. Eaker- Humphrey
60. England, Ronnie
61. England, WM, John, Tom
62. Erwin, Hampton- Harris
63. Erwin Family
64. Erwin, Hub- Bazzell
65. Erwin- James
66. Erwin- Outland
67. Erwin, James- Warren
68. Fain- Key
69. Fain- Miller
70. Fain, Dan- Rogers
71. Farris- Carroway- Adair- Murdock
72. Farris- Howard
73. Foy- Paschall
74. Frensley- Howard
75. Furches- Family
76. Galloway Family
77. Galloway- Farmer
78. Galloway- Reynolds
79. Galloway- Waterfield
80. Galloway- White- Drake
81. Galloway- Windsor- Wright
82. Gingles- Starks Family
83. Grahm- Swann
84. Guier, Quint
85. Gutherie- Beaman

Box 2 H-M

1. Hale- Broach
2. Hall- Kelso
3. Halford
4. Halford- Thompson
5. Hall, Lenon- Paschall
6. Hall, Ollie- McElrath
7. Hamlin- Walford
8. Harmeyer, Virginia
9. Harding Family
10. Harris Family
11. Harris; D.C.-Camp
12. Harris, James- Murdock
13. Harris, Jesse- Owen
14. Harris - Rogers
15. Harris, Rufus- Swann
16. Hart Sr., James Coleman
17. Hendon
18. Henley, Melvin- Family
19. Hill- Miller
20. Hooper, James- Poque
21. Howard, Rudolph- Blaylock
22. Howard, Boswell- Eaker
23. Houston Family
24. Hughes, Alton- Holland
25. Hughes, Charlie- Chiriaco
26. Hughes, Clara- Adams
27. Hughes- Cooper
28. Hughes, Herbert- Scherffivs
29. Hughes, James- Chiriaco
30. Hughes, Leav Nell- Alexander
31. Hughes, O'Dell- Ivy
32. Hughes, Thomas Jr.- Grogan
33. Hughes, Tom- Lockhart
34. Hughes, Vera May- Brodeur
35. Huie- Barrow- Orr- Rickman
36. Humphreys, Duell- Coleman- Garland
37. Humphries- Burton
38. Humphreys- Miles
39. Jackson- Miller
40. Jackson Family
41. Jackson, Ronald- Lassiter
42. Jackson, Wm. Alfred- Epperson, Nancy
43. James- Clark
44. James, Commodore- Ray
45. James, Robert- Swann Family
46. Jackson
47. Jones, Bunch- West, Lucile
48. Jones, Cody M.D. & family
49. Jones, Charlie- Sims
50. Jones, Alvis Ed.- Cain
51. Jones, Alvis-Erwin -Caldwell- Clark- Miller Alvis Edwards
52. Jones Elmbert Family
53. Jones, Jasper- Swell, Rebecca
54. Jones- Roberts
55. Jones- Rogers
56. Jones, Thelma- Thomas
57. Kelso Family
58. Key Gary- Lamb
59. Key, John- Armstrong
60. Key, Lowell Thomas- Bell
61. Key, Lowell- Humphreys
62. Key, Wallase- Harris Family
63. Knight
64. Lamb Black
65. Lamb- Rogers
66. Lassiter, W (Billy)- Dalton Family
67. Lassiter, Vergil- Camp
68. Lawrence, John Win- Dick
69. Lee- Sims
70. Lockhart, Charlie- Camp
71. Lowry, Dr. Conie Crittenden
72. McCamish- Wrather
73. McClain- Rogers- Towensend
74. McKenzie- Axiotis
75. McReynolds- Dick
76. Marine- Bazzell
77. Marquardt- Armbruster
78. Melvin, John T. - Harned
79. Melvin- Morris- Swann
80. Mercer- Jones, Flossie
81. Miller, George- Murdock
82. Miller- Hall
83. Miller- Richardson
84. Morton- Stokes
85. Murdock- Adams
86. Murdock, Bryan- Rogers
87. Myers- Morton
88. Myers Family
89. Myers, Robert & Andrew- McCorkle
90. Myers Robert, Jackson, Andrew "Jack"- McCorkle

Box 3 Genealogy N- end (W)

1. Hale- Broach
2. Hall- Kelso
3. Halford
4. Halford- Thompson
5. Hall, Lenon- Paschall
6. Hall, Ollie- McElrath
7. Hamlin- Walford
8. Harmeyer, Virginia
9. Harding Family
10. Harris Family
11. Harris; D.C.-Camp
12. Harris, James- Murdock
13. Harris, Jesse- Owen
14. Harris - Rogers
15. Harris, Rufus- Swann
16. James Coleman Hart Sr.
17. Hendon
18. Henley, Melvin- Family
19. Hill- Miller
20. Hooper, James- Poque
21. Howard, Rudolph- Blaylock
22. Howard, Boswell- Eaker
23. Houston Family
24. Hughes, Alton- Holland
25. Hughes, Charlie- Chiriaco
26. Hughes, Clara- Adams
27. Hughes- Cooper
28. Hughes, Herbert- Scherffivs
29. Hughes, James- Chiriaco
30. Hughes, Leav Nell- Alexander
31. Hughes, O'Dell- Ivy
32. Hughes, Thomas Jr.- Grogan
33. Hughes, Tom- Lockhart
34. Hughes, Vera May- Brodeur
35. Huie- Barrow- Orr- Rickman
36. Humphreys, Duell- Coleman- Garland
37. Humphries- Burton
38. Humphreys- Miles
39. Jackson- Miller
40. Jackson Family
41. Jackson, Ronald- Lassiter
42. Jackson, Wm. Alfred- Epperson, Nancy
43. James- Clark
44. Jones, Bunch- West, Lucile
45. James, Commodore- Ray
46. Jackson
47. Jones, Cody M.D. & family
48. Jones, Charlie- Sims
49. Jones, Alvis Ed.- Cain
50. Jones Elmbert Family
51. Jones, Alvis-Erwin -Caldwell- Clark- Miller Alvis Edwards
52. James, Robert- Swann Family
53. Jones, Jasper- Swell, Rebecca
54. Jones- Roberts
55. Jones- Rogers
56. Jones, Thelma- Thomas
57. Kelso Family
58. Key Gary- Lamb
59. Key, John- Armstrong
60. Key, Lowell Thomas- Bell
61. Key, Lowell- Humphreys
62. Key, Wallase- Harris Family
63. Knight
64. Lamb Black
65. Lamb- Rogers
66. Lassiter, W (Billy)- Dalton Family
67. Lassiter, Vergil- Camp
68. Lawrence, John Win- Dick
69. Lee- Sims
70. Lockhart, Charlie- Camp
71. Lowry, Dr. Conie Crittenden
72. McCamish- Wrather
73. McClain- Rogers- Towensend
74. McKenzie- Axiotis
75. McReynolds- Dick
76. Marine- Bazzell
77. Marquardt- Armbruster
78. Mercer- Jones, Flossie
79. Melvin, John T. - Harned
80. Melvin- Morris- Swann
81. Miller, George- Murdock
82. Miller- Hall
83. Miller- Richardson
84. Murdock- Adams
85. Murdock, Bryan- Rogers
86. Morton- Stokes
87. Myers- Morton
88. Myers Family
89. Myers, Robert & Andrew- McCorkle
90. Myers Robert, Jackson, Andrew "Jack"- McCorkle

Box 4 Military

1. Elections- Voting
2. Howard's Stone
3. Lynn Grove History
4. Mason Memorial Hospital
5. McClain- Jones Store
6. Medical History in Calloway County
7. Murray Hospital
8. Memories
9. County Poor Farm
10. Squire Definition- Chesnut Tree
11. Recreation Lynn Grove- Harris Grove
12. John Taylor Melvin Garage
13. Murray Surgical Hospital
14. Pickard's Store
15. Dr. John C. Quertermous
16. Dr. Kenneth Ross
17. Scenes in Tri City
18. Dr. Richard Stout
19. Stella
20. Taylor's Store
21. Tri City Drive-in Theater
22. Tri City, Graves co., KY
23. Tri City Tavern
24. West- Holmes Restaurant
25. Wiswell Store
26. National Youth Association
27. National Youth Association
28. Community Hospital
29. Mason Hospital
30. NYA
31. ST. Joseph Hospital- Questionnaires
32. NYA
33. Military Iraq
34. 1818 History of Western Calloway County
35. Agriculture in Calloway
36. Burton Service Station
37. CCC Camp- Murray
38. CCC
39. CCC
40. Farley, Robert
41. CCC
42. CCC
43. CCC
44. CCC
45. Courthouse- Wadesboro
46. Boydsville, KY
47. Browns Grove
48. Butterworth Clinic
49. Cold Water
50. Crossland
51. Keys- Houston Clinic
52. Deaths & Funerals

Box 5 Military

1. YNA
2. Houston- McDevitt- Clinic Hospital
3. Houston- McDevitt
4. Forgy- Pearl Harbor
5. MCCH
6. Murray Doctors
7. M.D. Murray Stories
8. Package From Anna Redden
9. Nurses- Houston McDevitt Drs- Etc.
10. Lola James MCCH
11. Ruth E. Cole US NR Nurse Corps

Box 6 Churches & Schools

1. Utterback School
2. Utterback School
3. Waters School
4. Young School
5. Lynn Grove- Harris Grove Book- Genealogy page
6. Information for family history
7. Daughters of the confederacy
8. Lynn Grove Yearbook
9. Lynn Grove 1947 yearbook
10. Lynn Grove Schools 1950's
11. Lynn Grove School 1960's
12. Motheral School
13. Outland School
14. Paschall School
15. Pleasant Valley
16. Rosin Ridge
17. Salem School
18. Sinking Springs School
19. South Howard School
20. Sugar Hill School
21. Lynn Grove School etc.
22. Calloway County Church of Christ 1836- 1838
23. Church Attendance
24. The Community of Christ Church
25. Goshen United Methodist Church
26. Knob Creek Church of Christ
27. Lynn Grove Methodist Church
28. Lynnville Church of Christ
29. Primitive Baptist Church
30. Salem Baptist Church
31. Sinking Springs Baptist Church
32. Story's Chapel Methodist Church
33. Williams Chapel Church of Christ
34. Broach School
35. School History in Calloway County
36. Coldwater School
37. Edgehill School
38. Faxon School
39. Galloway School
40. Harris Grove School
41. The Wildcat 1941-42
42. Lynn Grove 1940
43. Ruth Duplicate
44. Kelly School
45. Lynn Grove School History
46. Wildcat
47. Lynn Grove Class Graduates 1923- 1960
48. Lynn Grove School 1930 (1)
49. Class of 1936 (2)
50. folder 3
51. Lynn Grove School Reunions
52. Lynn Grove's School 1910's
53. Lynn Grove School's 1920's
54. Lynn Grove 1925
55. Lynn Grove Yearbook 51-52
56. Lynn Grove 1930's
57. Lynn Grove Schools 1940's

Box 7 Obituaries

1. January-05
2. February-05
3. March-05
4. April-05
5. May-05
6. June-05
7. July-05
8.  August-05
9. September-05
10. October-05
11. November-05
12. December-05
13. January-04
14. February-04
15. March-04
16. April-04
17. May-04
18. June-04
19. July-04
20. August-04
21. September-04
22. October-04
23. November-04
24. December-04
25. Deaths 2003
26. Obituaries 2003
27. Deaths 2006
28. School Photos (Not MSU)
29. Lynn Grove Graduates 1923-1960
30. Burial Records
31. Boyd Lewis
32. Burial Records
33. Obituary MSU Articles Birth news
34. Genealogical Society
35. Ford Family
36. Research
37. Family- Records
38. Lynn Grove
39. Jones, Barkley
40. Mixed Dates Lynn Grove Family & Friends
41. The Moorman Family

Box 8 MSU Nursing History

1. Loose clippings and promotional material for MSU Nursing
2. 1965 clippings
3. Department of Nursing
4. Home Coming 1987
5. MCCH- Building
6. All filed in Books
7. History and Development of MSU program
8. School of Nursing
9. Mixed material for Reviews
10. BSN Beginning Pasty Forrest
11. BSN in Book Duplicates
12. Nursing 1968
13. Nursing 1990's
14. LPN
15. Nursing
16. Schedules & Programs MSU
17. Student Health Services
18. Murray Home Coming 1988
19. Home Coming 1988
20. Home Coming 1986
21. Home Coming 1987
22. Training School Murray State University
23. College History, Death Records, Misc. Newspapers
24. MSU Nursing Program in Murray Life Summer 2007

Box 9 Boyd

1. Confido Boyd
2. Boyd
3. Boyd-Ireland
4. Boyd
5. Boyd
6. Boyd
7. Boyd
8. Boyd

Box 10

1. Old Calloway Courthouse
2. MSU Nursing folder 2
3. MSU Nursing folder 1
4. Misc.
5. ODC Hospital Nursing
6. JSM Hospital Nursing
7. Murray State college Nursing
8. Misc. Genealogical
9. Lynn Grove
10. Family Journal for John Darius Galloway
11. Page from Lynn Grove Methodist Directory
12. Chronological order of Blood River Churches
13. Family Records of William Berry Winchester
14. Pogue- Hudsbeth
15. Smith
16. Lynn Grove
17. Adams
18. Miller
19. Ford
20. Obituary
21. Genealogy
22. Veterans Newspaper
23. The Life & Times of Maude Lee Boyd
24. Brown- Earl Albert
25. Bible Records Calloway County
26. Letter To Ruth from Steven, Daiva, and Coral Sparks
27. Lynn Grove School
28. Military
29. Brochure & Picture of Jeffrey
30. Murray State Newspaper
31. Misc. Photos

Box 11

1. Book Sale
2. Book Sales
3. Voided Application for Non- Project
4. Genealogy Family Inquiries
5. Inquiries Concerning Families
6. Maps
7. History- Odd Clipping
8. Lynnville Hotel Rebekah Lodge
9. 7 to 8 main
10. Calloway County Genealogy Soc.
11. News
12. Immigration To KY
13. Woman’s Club History
14. Hospice
15. Hazel, KY
16. Genealogy Photos
17. Asbury Cemetery Directory
18. 2001- 2002 Minutes Meeting
19. News Letters
20. Murray History
21. Jackson Purchase Homecoming 2000
22. Calloway Co. Public Health
23. Mason Hospital & MCCH
24. Early Murray
25. Genealogy 2002
26. Genealogy 2003- 2009 News Letters
27. Genealogy

Box 12

1. Interments in Calloway County Cemeteries
2. Calloway County Cemeteries
3. Genealogy & Obituaries
4. Index to Story of Calloway Co.
5. Lynn Grove, Kentucky 1939
6. Photographic Pot- Pourri of Calloway County
7. Renaissance of Knowledge Christine Pogue Library Fund Pledge/ Gift Form
8. Histories & Biographies Western KY 1885
9. Renas Material
10. Genealogical Society
11. Calloway County Genealogical Society
12. For Info and News Letters Mostly History
13. Index 1980 Family Records of Calloway County Families- Morgaret- Cloys
14. Family Records of Calloway County, Kentucky and Adjoining Counties
15. Calloway County Cemeteries
16. Marriage Records Calloway County, KY part 1 & 2
17. Marriage Records Calloway County, KY part 1 & 2
18. Letter to Ruth
19. 1951
20. Class of 1952
21. Class of 1953
22. Class of 1954
23. Class of 1955
24. Class of 1956
25. Class of 1957
26. Class of 1958
27. Class of 1959
28. Class of 1960
29. Class of 1961
30. Class of 1962
31. Class of 1963
32. Class of 1964
33. Class of 1965
34. Class of 1966
35. Misc. Gen.

Box 13

1. Hand written note pads by Ruth
2. 7th Day Adventist Farm
3. Industrial Academy in Calloway County & Random Photo
4. Montage "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!!" Page 7
5. New Hope By, Ruth E. Cole

Box 14 Over-sized

1. Post offices- Calloway County
2. Telephone Systems
3. Harris Grove WWII Vets
4. Church Records Methodist Episcopal Church South
5. Church Land Section Mayes
6. 1950's A Kentucky Adventure
7. Boyd
8. Boyd
9. Boyd Dead Will
10. Boyd- Maps

Box 15 Over-sized

1. Department of Nursing Officers