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The Barnett Family Papers document the personal, business, and religious activities of the Barnett family of Nacogdoches County through correspondence, receipts, contracts, and genealogical materials. The collection also contains records relating to Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church and several generations of the Barnett family, including John Calhoun Barnett and Robert Donnell Barnett.

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Four years of income tax returns and related documentation.

Abstract This collection contains several photographs of the Garsee family in the 1940s, three funeral registers, as well as a San Augustine High School Diploma, and a Masonic Bible and notes. There is also a newspaper clipping and photocopy about Corporal Bemon Garsee’s time in the “bloody bucker” 28th Infantry Division in World War II. One item of interest is an original poem written by Corporal Bemon Garsee exactly one year after June 6, 1944 in remembrance of his lost...

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This collection has a mix of Southern correspondence, newspaper articles, rosters, orders, war tax receipts, and other papers and documents relating to the Civil War. There are originals, typed transcriptions, and photocopies in the collection.

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The East Texas School Men’s Club Collection documents the organization and activities of the East Texas School Men’s Club from 1930 to 1940 through correspondence, a historical manuscript, constitution, membership lists, meeting programs, and organizational reports. The materials document the Club’s efforts to address educational issues and promote cooperation among educational leaders in East Texas.

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The William and Mollie Goss Collection consists of two nineteenth-century letters concerning family relationships, bereavement, domestic life, and enslaved individuals, and three photographs of unidentified individuals dating from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. The correspondence includes an 1859 letter from William Henry Goss to his wife, Mollie Goss.

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The Gribble family is descended from Edwin Gribble, (1822-1909) who came to America in 1834 from England, eventually settling in the St. Paul, Minnesota region where he became a lawyer and judge. One branch of the family arrived in Texas around 1870 with members living throughout East and Southeast Texas, including Nacogdoches, Bryant, and Houston.

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A general ledger from Helpinstill Auto Supply, World War II ration books, and 1880s receipts.

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The Herrera Family Papers document the history of a longstanding Hispanic family in Nacogdoches County, Texas, from the nineteenth through the twentieth century. Materials include an original 1871 land grant signed by Governor Richard B. Hubbard, deeds, photographs, account books, and family records that trace the Herrera family's land ownership, community connections, and multigenerational presence in East Texas.

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This collection consists of newspaper clippings, copies of police reports, and photocopies of photographs relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, and the subsequent killings of Officer J. D. Tippit and Lee Harvey Oswald. The materials document contemporary reporting and official investigations surrounding these events.

Abstract The McFarland-Russell Family Papers document the lives and experiences of several generations of an East Texas family from the Republic of Texas era through the twentieth century. The collection includes the journal of surveyor Thomas S. McFarland, Civil War-era correspondence of Confederate postmaster Robert B. Russell, family scrapbooks, genealogical research, photographs, newspaper clippings, and personal correspondence that illuminate Texas history, family life, and regional...

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Scrapbook of newspaper clippings from various Texas newspapers about the school explosion.

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This is a small collection of documents relating to San Augustine County, Texas, which were acquired from a variety of sources, some unknown. The majority of items in the collection are funeral notices and entrance certificates. Unless otherwise noted at the end of each individual entry, the document is an original.

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Deeds and other documents relating to the ownership of the Stone Fort and the lot on which it stood in downtown Nacogdoches.