Collection Title: Robert McCann Collection
Series Number: MS95-04
Processed and Cataloged by: Originally processed by Keith M. Heim. Reprocessed by Dieter C. Ullrich.
Date Listed: Originally listed in 1995. Relisted on April 9, 2010.
Date Span: 1811-1882 (bulk 1842-1882)
Size of Collection: 0.75 linear feet.
Number of Boxes: 1 legal size document case and 1 legal half sized document case.
Type of Material: Correspondence, legal documents and postcards.
Condition of Material: Fair with minor tears, foxing and fading of documents due to aging and improper storage.
Arrangement: Chronological arrangement.
Biographical / Historical Information: Robert McCann was a professor of Computer Studies at Murray State University from 1965 until his death in 1983. His father-in-law, Brown Coy Tucker, donated family correspondence and records to the Murray State University Archives in his son-in-law’s name in 1986.
Scope and Content: Collection consists of correspondence and legal documents related to the Scott family of Calloway County, Kentucky from 1811 to 1882. The correspondence contains a small amount of Civil War letters, including one from a Union officer at Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 2, 1863 and another from a woman at Louisville, Kentucky following the Battle of Fort Donelson. The collection also includes a letter describing a tornado that struck Elkland, Missouri in April of 1880. The bulk of the letters discuss family issues, crop prices, weather conditions and political issues of the day. Most of the letters were sent or received in the states of Kentucky, Missouri or Texas. Included with the correspondence are postcards of various sites in central Kentucky.
Subject Headings / Descriptors:
McCann, Robert, 1930-1983.
Scott family.
Fair Grove (Mo.)
Greene County (Mo.)
Elkland (Mo.)
Webster County (Mo.)
Forney (Tex.)
Mesquite (Tex.)
Kaufman County (Tex.)
Calloway County (Ky.)
Coldwater (Ky.)
Lexington (Ky.)
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Personal narratives.
Box List
Box 1
- Finding Aid
- Correspondence 1811
- Correspondence 1818
- Summons 1819
- Deed 1821
- Correspondence 1826
- Correspondence 1827
- Correspondence 1832
- Correspondence 1833
- Collections Correspondence 1834
- Correspondence 1836
- Correspondence 1837
- Correspondence 1838
- Correspondence 1839
- Correspondence 1840
- Correspondence 1841
- Correspondence 1842
- Correspondence 1843
- Correspondence 1844
- Correspondence 1845
- Correspondence 1846
- Correspondence 1847
- Correspondence 1848
- Correspondence 1849
- Correspondence 1850
- Correspondence 1851
- Correspondence 1852
- Correspondence 1853
- Correspondence 1854
- Correspondence 1855
- Correspondence 1856
- Correspondence 1857
- Correspondence 1858
- Correspondence 1859
- Correspondence 1860
- Collection Correspondence 1861
- Correspondence 1862
- Correspondence 1863
- Correspondence 1864
- Correspondence 1866
- Correspondence 1867
Box 2
- Correspondence 1871
- Correspondence 1872
- Correspondence 1873
- Correspondence 1874
- Correspondence 1875
- Correspondence 1876
- Correspondence 1877
- Correspondence 1878
- Correspondence 1879
- Correspondence 1880 Elkland, Missouri Tornado
- Correspondence 1881
- Correspondence 1882
- Correspondence No Dates
- Envelopes
- Ephemera
- Newspaper Clippings
- Postcards
