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Guide to the Wallace-Starling Family Diaries,
96M07 Guide to the Wallace-Starling Family Diaries, 1854-1932 Archives Staff Special Collections Special Collections Kentucky History Center Kentucky Historical Society 100 W. Broadway Frankfort, Kentucky 40601-1931 USA Phone: (502) 564-1792, ext.4470 Fax: (502) 564-4701 URL: http://history.ky.gov/ Kentucky Historical Society Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, April 2000. ENG Guide to the Wallace-Starling Family Diaries, 1854-1932 Contact Information Special Collections Kentucky History Center Kentucky Historical Society 100 W. Broadway Frankfort, Kentucky 40601-1931 USA Phone: (502) 564-1792, ext.4470 Fax: (502) 564-4701 URL: http://history.ky.gov/ Processed by: Staff Date Completed: n.d. Encoded by: Apex Data Services Copyright 2000 Kentucky Historical Society. All Rights Reserved. Wallace-Starling Family Diaries, 1854-1932 96M07 Wallace, Ellen Kenton McGaughey, b. ca.1820; Starling, Annie Leslie McCarroll, 1844-1932 1 cubic ft. Fair --> Kentucky Historical Society. Special Collections & Archives. Frankfort, Kentucky 40601-1931 Access at KHS only. Use microfilm, transcriptions or images when available. Permission for commercial use must be requested from the Kentucky Historical Society Special Collections. [Identification of item], Wallace-Starling family diaries, 1854-1932,Library Special Collections and Archives, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort. Ellen Kenton McGaughey Wallace was a member of a landowning and slaveholding family in southern Christian County, Kentucky. At the beginning of the Civil War, her sentiments were pro-Union. However, as the war progressed and certainly after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, her sympathies turned toward the Confederates. Her diaries portray an intelligent and sensitive middle-aged mother who used her journals for expression not allowed women in the 19th century. Annie Leslie McCarroll Starling, on the other hand, began her journals as a seventeen-year-old at the outset of the Civil War. She was the daughter of Hopkinsville physician, John McCarroll, and was strongly pro-Union. Her diaries, however, show little concern for the politics of the day and mostly provide short commentary about the weather and some family information. The Wallace-Starling family diaries consist of two journals written by Ellen Kenton McGaughey Wallace between 1854 and 1865 and sixteen journals, plus loose pages, written by Annie Leslie McCarroll Starling between 1880 and 1932. Transcripts by James T. Killebrew of Hopkinsville, Kentucky accompany the collection and include additional diary accounts of Ellen Wallace from 1849 and those of Annie Starling from 1860 to 1880. As members of prominent Christian County families, both women provide a view of a privileged lifestyle in 19th century Kentucky, yet convey (particularly in Mrs. Wallace's case) the impacts of civil war, illness, and death upon their lives. Mrs. Wallace's diaries also provide some slave history, including an account of an 1856 slave uprising incident in Hopkinsville, names of her servants and births of their children, and slave reactions to the Emancipation Proclamation. Because of several mentions of births, deaths, and marriages, researchers may find the diaries helpful in genealogy searches. Arrangement: Chronological Wallace, Ellen Kenton McGaughey, b. 1820-Diaries Starling, Annie Leslie McCarroll, 1844-1932-Diaries Women-Conduct of life-19th century Landowners-Christian County-Kentucky-Social life and customs Slaveholders-Christian County-Kentucky-Social life and customs Wallace family; Starling family Christian County (Ky.)-Genealogy Hopkinsville, KY-Social conditions-19th century United States-History-Civil War, 1861-1865-Personal narratives