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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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.