Sarah King Collection

SERIES DESCRIPTION

Series 1:  Collier Family Papers (1 box, 20 folders)

The correspondence and financial records of I.B. Collier III and immediate family encompass the majority of this series.  Dating from the 1860s to 1954, this expansive series contains primary source items such as letters, bank deposit slips, wills, funeral notices, deeds, clippings, and miscellaneous financial documents.  A majority of the correspondence and financial information dates back to the nineteenth century. 

Series 2:  King Publications (1 box, 9 folders)

Special-edition newspapers form the bulk of the Publications series.  Three editions featuring the Civil War as well as a replica edition of a July 1862 Murfreesboro paper highlight nineteenth-century Middle Tennessee.  This series also contains newspapers about Rutherford County’s Sesquicentennial Celebration and the former Sewart Air Force Base in Smyrna.  The second edition of Hearthstones: The Story of Rutherford County Homes and a Collier family genealogy, compiled in 2000, complete this series. 

Series 3:  King Subject Files (1 box, 8 folders)

This series contains an assortment of clippings and miscellaneous documentation concerning the King family.  In addition to newspaper articles and photographs relating to Mr. and Mrs. King, this series contains clippings and scrapbook materials about the Sam Davis Home, which the Kings held near and dear to their hearts.  Speeches and speech fragments document Mrs. King’s involvement with the National Society of the DAR.  A copy of the Colonel Hardy Murfree Chapter of the DAR’s constitution and by-laws from 1915, as well as a Treaty of Paris Celebration booklet from 1983, are also in this series. 

Series 4:  King Ephemera (1 box, 12 items)

The ephemera series largely consists of items denoting Sarah King’s involvement with the DAR and her election to the NSDAR.  Scrapbooks concerning the Sam Davis Home and a Wyoming Chapter of the DAR are in this series, as well as a memento from King’s attendance at the Reagan-Bush Inaugural.  Most of the items date to the 1970s and 1980s.  However, six Tennessee Central Fair Association tickets date back to 1872. 

Series 5:  King Business Records (1 box, 3 items)

An 1860 business record from the Green & Copeland Dry Goods store, as well as two volumes of the W.H. King business record (1912-1915, 1917-1935), compose this series. 

Related Materials: 

• Mr. Steve Cates donated two “Sarah King for Congress” posters to the Gore Research Center.  These two items are currently stored in the miscellaneous oversized box.
• Sam Davis “1^st Day on the Farm” slides from the Sarah King Collection are located in the Slide Collection binder on the photo stack.

Additional Notes:

• Photographs #1-76 of the Sarah King Photo Collection are digitized only.  Photographs #77-147 are available in hard copy and digital versions.  Click HERE to access the database for photographs #77-147.
• The Collier Family: 1643-2000 genealogical book of the King Publications Series is currently being stored with the King Business Records Series for space purposes (Box 5).