{"id":7204,"date":"2014-02-25T01:36:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T06:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getitright.pmss.net\/?page_id=7204"},"modified":"2014-03-17T17:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T21:01:36","slug":"stapleton-report-1930-january","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=7204","title":{"rendered":"STAPLETON REPORT 1930 &#8211; January. &#8220;At Christmas we found the country covered &#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><a title=\"Dr. IDA STAPLETON &amp; Rev. ROBERT STAPLETON\" href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=3473\"><strong>Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nLine Fork 1927 &#8211; 1947<\/h5>\n<h5>REPORT &#8211;\u00a0January 1930\u00a0&#8220;At Christmas we found the country covered with\u00a0a thick white blanket of snow &#8230;&#8221;<\/h5>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7204 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=7205'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lf_stap_01_30_001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7205\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7205'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Report 1930 &#8211; January.  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Page  04.   lf_stap_01_30_004.jpg \n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?attachment_id=7209'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/lf_stap_01_30_005-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-7209\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-7209'>\n\t\t\t\tStapleton Report 1930 &#8211; January. Page 05.    lf_stap_01_30_005.jpg\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h5>TRANSCRIPTION Courtesy of Gretchen Rasch, great-granddaughter of the Stapletons:<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;\">\u00a0<\/span>LINE FORK SETTLEMENT \u00a0 \u00a0 THE CABIN \u00a0 \u00a0 JANUARY <span style=\"color: #000000;\">1930<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Dear Friends:-<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At Christmas, we found all the country covered with a thick white blanket of snow. The evergreens were so lovely it seemed quite unnecessary to have any further decorations \u2013 but in the schoolrooms it was quite different and the trees were trimmed\u00a0in the usual way with candles, tinsel, holly wreaths and bells. The program of songs and readings explaining why these objects are used\u00a0in celebrating the Birth day of our King, Jesus our Savior, was much enjoyed. One pupil read the part of Paganism, another that of Christianity and groups of children took the part of ornaments as they placed them on the tree. Then the gifts sent by several groups of friends and individuals\u00a0were distributed\u00a0from a huge red stocking which I had carried down and up the Fork on Bess while Mr S carried the boxes of apples, oranges and raisins on Swallow. The teachers Mr and Mrs Holbrook supplied the candy in neat little chimney boxes. Santa himself did not appear\u00a0this year but the Christmas spirits told how Santa\u2019s work was done\u00a0in cottage, palace and orphan homes. Mr Holbrook gave a genial talk at each school assuring the children and their parents that he had not seen any better-looking children in Letcher County and he has been teaching\u00a0for seventeen years. The two \u2013 Mr and Mrs Holbrook are unique in that they came up on Line Fork as substitute teachers, the former ones having been obliged to resign for incompetency. One of the trustees told them they would make better policemen than teachers. After an interim of two weeks Mr &amp; Mrs Holbrook were found and they brought their three little folk with them. Jackie, 4\u00bd years, going to Coyle Branch with his father, while Henrietta went to Bear Branch with the mother, and Jimmie stayed at the farm where they all boarded with Sara Jane who assisted at so many of my baby parties. Just now they are arranging to have a house by themselves. They are Line Fork young people some twenty miles below here and so far have made good use of their opportunities. Mr H was in France during the war. Mrs H is much younger and is still working for her permanent teacher\u2019s certificate so will go to Normal school as soon as this school closes at the end of February \u00a0Her husband\u2019s parents will care for the children then. Mr H\u2019s school will continue on into March.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One of our neighbors &#8211; Johnny, father of Rita \u2013 had dug two hundred bushels of coal to pay the doctor\u2019s bill and then borrowed four dollars to pay a pressing debt. Finally when some pretty weather allowed for working Mr S gave him a job to pay it and earn a little more for himself \u2013 splitting wood, boxing up Swallow\u2019s stall \u2013 our pole barn being very open \u2013 tidying up the low stone walls that outline the gardens and lawn around the Cabin &amp;c. One day we asked him to bring his mule to drag logs down the mountain for Neely to use as fuel as she was quite worn out trying to get wood. The mule had been a gift from Jason. One day Johnny saw the mule grazing by the roadside and asked Jason if it was his. Jason replied, \u201cYes but I don\u2019t want he as there aint\u2019 no fodder for he\u201d and then \u201cIf you want he I give he to you. He good mule. If you take he and afterwards sell he for twenty-five dollars I not come to you and say give me a part for he\u201d. Johnny related the above with great gusto. He then said \u201cMay gave me a bridle, the old man [meaning his father] gave the <span style=\"color: #000000;\">hames <em>[sic]<\/em><\/span>\u00a0and Mr S a halter\u201d. So I said it must be a combination mule. Jason saw him hauling wood for Neely (they are not yet on speaking terms) and rather resented the mule working for Neely. But Johnny fixed it up by saying \u201cThe mule is working for me and I am working for Mr Stapleton\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">John had been having\u00a0\u201cjawache\u201d for a long time and was forced\u00a0to go to Cumberland to a dentist, and, because the negro dentist was the only sober one there, he went to him. He is well trained and has a very neat and attractive office in a tiny brick building all by itself.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It has been too cold and frozen to do any more digging so Johnny is splitting palings to fence in some land of his own. He has about five acres and has recently sold a half acre\u00a0to a younger brother for fifty dollars on which to build a house for his newly acquired wife and in order to pay for it he tried unsuccessfully to beg a load from the Cabin.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Belvie\u00a0and Deltie\u00a0Hall came to see the Doctor the other morning. Their uncle Jim had recently returned from St Joseph\u2019s hospital in Louisville where he had an operation\u00a0for appendicitis and Deltie\u00a0had a suspicious pain in her side. I gave her some advice and told her to stay at home the next day. Mr S was at the school the next day and saw Belvie\u00a0who reported that Deltie\u00a0was no better so I went over to their place some two miles distant thru the forest almost the entire way. Hi the father makes splint bottom chairs and other bits of furniture. Frank the son has made some twenty toys \u2013 hickory splint bottom chairs for the Xmas trade and Hi made a bedstead of walnut. I found the entire family gathered in the living room \u2013 three double beds, a newly acquired wardrobe and victrola. This last came over the mountain by wagon to the Cabin a month ago. Hi and Frank carried it home over the ridge slung on a pole. Sara\u2019s (Hi\u2019s wife) sister, Hannah, with daughter Eliza and granddaughter Addie, were there all sitting on one side of a bed as there were too few chairs to accommodate everybody.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The next day I went up Jake\u2019s creek to see Orrie\u00a0who had been to the Cabin a week before for medicine. Now I called to see how she was getting on. She had been much better\u00a0for a few days. Then she had to go foraging for coal while her father-in-law stayed in the house and nussed\u00a0the baby. Why hadn\u2019t he gone? The neighbors laughing say \u201cThat Dick would sit and freeze to death before he would pack coal\u201d. Not quite as bad as that I reckon but at this time he wouldn\u2019t, so Orrie\u00a0rode the mule a mile to the coal bank where a quantity of\u00a0coal had been taken out and after filling two pokes with it she loaded them on to the mule and walked back. She had another heart spell and was in a faint for some hours. I had warned Dick that she must not get wood for a month or two but he wouldn\u2019t, and her brother, a young man, wouldn\u2019t, so she had made the effort to keep her babes from freezing. Some families are helpful to their relatives, then again they are quite heartless.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In my last letter I wrote about Mallie\u00a0and her baby going to St Joseph\u2019s Infirmary. They were well cared for and convalescing nicely when she received an appealing letter from a neighbour telling that her mother was very ill and wouldn\u2019t she come back as soon as possible. Mallie\u00a0said she quite\u00a0intended to do, as she had promised until then, but that shook her resolution as she thought of nothing except getting back, forgetting the difficulties of the thirty miles to her father\u2019s house. She just came on to Cumberland, stayed there the day and night with an acquaintance, caught a ride on the wagon\u00a0over the mountain carrying goods to a store on Line Fork. Here another night was spent\u00a0and the next day she walked four miles to Martha Lewis\u2019 and spent the night there. Sunday afternoon Rosa Lewis helped her carry the baby the remaining two miles to the Cabin. I was too astonished for words and Mallie\u00a0was made\u00a0to see her mistake. But what could I do but take her in and care for her like an erring daughter. The baby had recovered from his running ears but was on edge of a bad cold. I made her write to the friend who had urged her return and wait for an answer. It has not come yet but the weather has been very cold so I am glad she cannot go until her father comes for her; in fact I am still hoping to send her to the House of Mercy so she will have a real chance to get well. She knows the Lord\u2019s prayer and joins us in repeating it. Says she learned that in school and a few hymns which she croons to baby. The child is learning to go to sleep by himself only I have to hold him on the bed having no crib. He has always slept cuddled in her arms until they went to the hospital and there he must sleep when she goes home. &#8212;- If she had only stopped in Lexington!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday Bert came with another dozen eggs her small son had gathered and had been saving toward a new overall and jacket. He brought the first two dozen himself. Then the hogs got all the nests and ate the eggs for a few days. But Lawrence told them they could not \u201clay\u201d in the corn house anymore and asked his Pap to help him shut up the holes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mary Belle came for some baby flannel I had ordered for her. She wanted to order a complete layette\u00a0so she wouldn\u2019t have to make them but they had no money so she was persuaded\u00a0to make them as this is her first baby. I will cut out one of each little garment for her then she can use it for a pattern and cut the rest for herself. It is her husband who has bought the half acre\u00a0from his brother Johnny. They are occupying a house belonging to his older brother Carter, sharing it with his married sister Mary, who helped so long at the Cabin. She has passed her job on to Rosie Belle and then later wanted it back but Rosie is having her chance now and is doing well. It means so much to them to have the money. Mary had the Cabin loom and we tried to get her to make a business of using it but for that she claimed she hadn\u2019t time. A few days ago Nancy Holbrook Cornett asked for the loom and her husband brought it to his house on a sled. It had to be\u00a0taken down but he was able to put it up again and now Nancy is practicing on some odds and ends of wool for a blanket then she hopes to being doing something worthwhile like a Mary Simmons coverlet. A sister in law\u00a0has learned and will teach her. While visiting her sick little boy Homer, three years January 3rd, Nancy complained that he never had any warm underwear and she hoped she could help earn enough to buy him some. As he is one of my babies I made him a little birthday dress a year ago and he remembered it and said to his mother \u201cI hope Mrs Stape\u00a0will bring me a shirt this year\u201d. He wears little overalls now. I made a smock from an old warm flannel skirt and he brightened up from his fever and reached out for the \u201cshirt\u201d. Then he pushed it away to his mother. He was terribly dirty and as we discussed the possibilities of \u201cneumonia fever\u201d, the father who was holding the little fellow by the fire remarked that it would be a good thing to give him a bath. It is needless to say that the doctor agreed with him.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mallie\u2019s baby is making a terrible fuss because I insist on his staying in the baby box and amusing himself. Mallie<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> tells him who would not let him cry so<\/span> but she would hold him all the time and increase his helplessness.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sudie, whose husband shot himself, is going about her work bravely. She said she would starve before she would do what some of the women whose husbands are in prison are doing. The very fact that she means to do right is helping her. A brother paid her taxes and helped her pay off a debt on the land. She rode over to Cumberland with Baby and as she had to stay overnight, Rosie Belle stays with the children when she is gone and her brother Henry helps the little boys chop the wood. I was surprised to see him or I could hardly have believed it, as he is not given to such exercise.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mr S had a little experience with a kicking horse the other day. He went into the stall to bridle her for a guest, and the horse tried to show him her heels. He raced round at her head bumping against the side of the stall and escaped at the door without injury but so much racket was made that a passing neighbour rushed up to the stable and succeeded in getting the horse bridled.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">So the angels are still on their job.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">[signed] Sincerely yours<br \/>\nMr S and the Doctor<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">[Date of Transcription: 2014-03-03]<\/p>\n<table width=\"85%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" bgcolor=\"#fdebc6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Title<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>STAPLETON REPORT 1930 &#8211; January<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Alt. Title<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton<\/strong> <strong>Line Fork 1927 &#8211; 1947<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Identifier<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><strong>Permalink:<\/strong>http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=7204<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Creator<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Alt. Creator<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Ann Angel Eberhardt\u00a0; Helen Hayes Wykle ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Subject Keyword<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Ida Stapleton ; Rev. Robert Stapleton ; Line Fork Settlement ; Pine Mountain Settlement School ; Christmas ; evergreens ; schoolrooms ; decorations ; Paganism ; Christianity ; horses ; Mr. and Mrs. Holbrook ; teachers ; gifts ; chimney boxes ; Coyle Branch ; Jackie Holbrook ; Henrietta Holbrook ; Jimmie Holbrook ; Bear Branch ; World War I ; Normal School ; coal ; pole barn ; stone walls ; Cabin ; mules ; jawache\u00a0; dentists ; Belvie\u00a0Hall ; Deltie\u00a0Hall ; doctors ; St Joseph\u2019s Hospital ; appendicitis ; hickory splint bottom chairs ; victrolas\u00a0; Jake\u2019s creek ; Martha Lewis ; Rosa Lewis ; House of Mercy ; Lord\u2019s prayer ; sewing ; Nancy Holbrook Cornett ; Mary Simmons coverlets ; weaving ; baby boxes ;\u00a0Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Line Fork, KY ; Corbin, KY ; Pineville, KY ; Gilley, KY ; Hazard, KY ; Cornettsville , KY ;\u00a0Letcher County, KY ; Cumberland, KY ; Louisville, KY ; Lexington, KY ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Subject LCSH<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Stapleton, Dr. Ida, &#8212; 1871 &#8211; 1946.<br \/>\nStapleton, Rev. Robert, &#8212; 1866 &#8211; 1945.<br \/>\nPine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.) &#8212; History<br \/>\nHarlan County (Ky.) &#8212; History.<br \/>\nLine Fork Medical Settlement (Gilley, KY) &#8212; History.<br \/>\nEducation &#8212; Kentucky &#8212; Harlan County.<br \/>\nRural medicine &#8212; Kentucky &#8211;Letcher County.<br \/>\nRural schools &#8212; Kentucky &#8212; History.<br \/>\nSchools &#8212; Appalachian Region, Southern.<br \/>\nRural health services \u2014 Appalachian Region. \u2014 History.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Date<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">2014-02-25<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Publisher<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Contributor<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Gretchen Rasch<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Type<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Collections ; text ; image ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Format<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Original and copies of documents and correspondence in file folders in filing cabinet<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Source<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Series 10: Built Environment ; Series 21A: Personal Narratives (Written) ; Series 09: Biography.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Language<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">English<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Relation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Is related to: Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections, Series 21A: Personal Narratives (Written) ; Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com\/ \">http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com\/ <\/a>; Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) Library, Ida Stapleton Letters to Friends SC 462 <a href=\"http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347 \">http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347 <\/a>; Morris, Glyn. <em>Less Traveled Roads<\/em>. New York: Vantage Press, 1977.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Coverage Temporal<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">January 1930<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Coverage Spatial<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Pine Mountain, KY ; Harlan County, KY ; Line Fork, KY ; Corbin, KY ; Pineville, KY ; Gilley, KY ; Hazard, KY ; Cornettsville , KY ;\u00a0Letcher County, KY ; Cumberland, KY ; Louisville, KY ; Lexington, KY ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Rights<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Any display, publication, or public use must credit the Pine Mountain Settlement School. Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Donor<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">n\/a<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Description<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Core documents, correspondence, writings, and administrative papers of Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton ; clippings, photographs, books by or about Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. Robert Stapleton ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Acquisition<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">n\/d<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Citation<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Pine Mountain Settlement School Institutional Papers, Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Processed By<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Helen Hayes Wykle\u00a0; Ann Angel Eberhardt ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Last Updated<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">2013-12-03 hhw\u00a0; 2014-02-23\u00a0hhw\u00a0; 2014-03-05 aae ;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"28%\">\n<p align=\"LEFT\">Bibliography<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"72%\">\n<h5>Sources<\/h5>\n<p>Pine Mountain Collections: Series 10: Built Environment, Series 21A: Personal Narratives (Written), and Series 09: Biography. Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. Archival materials.<\/p>\n<h5>Bibliography<\/h5>\n<p>Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com\">http:\/\/www.kyhistory.com<\/a>\/ (accessed 2014-01-06). Internet resource.<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) Library, Ida Stapleton Letters to Friends SC 462. <a href=\"http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347\">http:\/\/khscatalog.kyvl.org\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=8347<\/a> (accessed 2014-01-06). Internet resource.<\/p>\n<p>Morris, Glyn. <em>Less Traveled Roads<\/em>. New York: Vantage Press, 1977. Print.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ida Stapleton and Rev. 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