https://digitalcollections.eku.edu/files/original/49d9808a52ec36bf9425422e90dab2f7.jpg c891123b52f8fcabb9451b8d13cab0fd https://digitalcollections.eku.edu/files/original/4d1d0497ba073672606e570946079415.jpg e2d76b6b9cf8b19ca7dc4be19e61a846 https://digitalcollections.eku.edu/files/original/ea1aa6148857e5f0f3afb3479e14e6e9.jpg 7ea6f67dea96ffab45ee0c21031d656b https://digitalcollections.eku.edu/files/original/20788fa2a44e980a1c82d9424e820127.jpg ac5d628d0d5909b758a08dd6771d2f9b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Walkup, Samuel Letters Subject The topic of the resource Family violence. Spousal abuse. Slavery. Kentucky--Politics and government--1792-1865. Kentucky--Social life and customs--19th century. Description An account of the resource These family letters span two decades of antebellum history and are an excellent source for social, cultural and economic information from that era. Slavery is discussed and the relationship between slaves and owners is revealed as the writer mentions family members, both white and African-American. Domestic violence is revealed in the letters from Samuel's children Betsy and John. Politics are also discussed as well as prices of crops in Missouri and North Carolina. The letters also document several generations of the Walkup family in North Carolina, Kentucky and Missouri. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1823-1846 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contact <a href="mailto:archives.library@eku.edu">Special Collections and Archives</a>, Crabbe Library, Eastern Kentucky University for reproductions, rights and permission to publish. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2003a007-f1-i01 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Walkup, Samuel Letters Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource correspondence Type The nature or genre of the resource text Title A name given to the resource AL Robert Walkup to Samuel Walkup Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1823-02-23 Description An account of the resource This letter tells about a fire which destroyed his house. His sons James, Jonny, Joseph, and Robert along with their cousin, a son of Harculas Hoey were all killed. He was able to get his daughters and one son out of the house safely. He graphically describes his efforts to rescue the boys. The last part of this letter is missing. Transcript: Feb 23, 1823 [To Samuel Walkup from his brother Robert Walkup] Dear brother and sister, I wonst [sic] more take my pen with a very sore hart [sic] to inform you of one of the greatest seans [sic] that your ears has heard of or your eyes has ever beheld that has befolline [sic] me, thy poore [sic] and unfortunate brother. On Friday night the eighth of this month a night for ever to be remembered with me in sorrow. My house caught fire in about one hours after we all lay down. I had a back shade in my house and a chimley [sic] in it where it caught. My wife wakened and told me that the shade was all afire. I jumped up and run to the midel [sic] door to open it flame came to so I had to shut it again. I run out of the house and a round to the back shade there was two partitions in the shad [sic] and a entry between. I found I could not put it out. I then thought of my dear children, my girls all three were a lieing [sic] in the rume [sic] in the back end of the shade. I thought them in the most danger, I run to a window and tore and hollowed [sic] to my oldest girl opened it, it hooked in the inside. I told her to bring out her sisters. I run to the house and up stairs to waken my boys but [unreadable] run to the back part of the lofe [sic] where I new [sic] some of them was a lieing [sic] and the smoke and fire burnt me so I never could get to them. I found I was gone and as the Lord wod [sic] have it I jumped and fel [sic] together out of the gabel [sic] end window about 16 or 18 feet to the ground. I no sunner [sic] lit to the ground til [sic] I ran to the door to go up stairs again, but to my sad lamentations the midel [sic] door had flew open and the flame was a coming out as ful [sic] as the door wood [sic] let it. I Lord only noes [sic] how my feelings was for dear sons in the house in the flame and I could not get to them and theey [sic] were all fore [sic] consumed with the fire and a young man old Harcules Hoeys sun [sic] that had come to stay with us all night, he was consumed with his cuzzens [sic]. He was about twinty [sic] years of age, my sun [sic] James was fifteen past the 25th of Oct. My sun [sic] Jonny was thirteen against the fith [sic] of May, my son Joseph was eleven against the 21 of May. My son Robert was nine against the 27 of May. I rite [sic] this to you my brother with a sore and sorrowful hart [sic]. I am bereaved of my children in a maracules [sic] maner [sic] so that I may cry with David, O my suns [sic], my suns [sic] in sorrow alls [sic] the days of my life, but he Lord what way he pleases blessed by his holy name. I wish to be returned to his holy wil [sic] and pleasure and pray I may meet all in haven [sic] where parting will be no more. My two oldest boys had gone through the Latin and Greek language. I had fetched them home in Oct. to give them some more Englash [sic] larning [sic] before I wood [sic] send them to college. My other two litel [sic] sons could read purty [sic] wel [sic] in the bible. O my brother it is unposable [sic] for me to tel [sic] you how me and my wife feels at this time. I will describe to you how they were a lien [sic] in there [sic] bed. I had a Mr. Flin a working on my house. He had a prentace [sic] with him. Flin and Hoey and my sun [sic] John were all three a lieng [sic] in one bed and the prentence [sic] and my sun [sic] James and Joseph were a lieng [sic] in another bed when I wakened. Me and my wife both caled [sic] to Flin and holowed [sic] fire. Flin was a very easy in a general way to waken. I thought he would waked and a brought all down to my assistance, but his prentace [sic] and himself both waked in a scare and suffocated with the smoke they never waked one of the boys but both jumped out of the window and left my boys and the young man asleep. Flin broke his thigh when he fel [sic] down and his prentace [sic] sprained his foot. I was burnt about the head and eyes and hand, but not hurt a tall [sic] by the fall out of the window. I came out of the window some time after them and my little sun [sic] Robert was a lieing [sic] down belo [sic] with his little brother in a little bed that run under ours and the were three little Negros that take out his little brother and the bed from under him and left him and can tell nothing about him. We do expect he run upstairs to waking his brothers and perrish [sic] with them. I never heard any of them say one word, but him as I fel [sic] out of the window and I heard him say o paw. I do expect the others never waked but God only noes [sic]. I wish to let [rest of the letter has been lost] Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Contact <a href="mailto:archives.library@eku.edu">Special Collections and Archives</a>, Crabbe Library, Eastern Kentucky University for reproductions, rights and permission to publish. Language A language of the resource eng AAD2019 fires