A. Personal & Family Collection

Classification

Identifier: A

Staff Only

The Family and Personal Collection offer sources for the study of a variety of topics such as agriculture, economic conditions, the Civil War, the role of Texan women, and family history in Texas history. Such collections contain diaries, letters, land records, memoirs, and other papers collected by, and centered on, an individual or successive generations of a family. Among the collections is material from Karle Wilson Baker, Stephen F. Austin, Archie P. McDonald, and local NAACP leader Arthur Weaver. These collections document the social, cultural and economic history of East Texas from European colonialism to the present day and provide a view into southern culture and life.

Found in 372 Collections and/or Records:

Rusche Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0131

Scope and Contents The collection includes land deeds as well as an original land grant to Nacogdoches University, signed by Governor Elisha M. Pease. Other papers in the collection are the passport of Heinrich Rusche from Oldenburg, naturalization papers of Francis Rusche, correspondence, and financial papers. Other Nacogdoches citizens mentioned in the papers are Bernard Witkorn, Frederick Voigt, Jacob Harlacher, Rinaldo Hotchkiss, and James H. Starr. Land papers of the Cherino and Santos Coy families are...

Dates: 1848-1895, 1987

Found in: East Texas Research Center

William Roark Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0146

Scope and Contents

The items in this collection relate to William Roark's work as a surveyor and in other official positions, to the buying and selling of slaves, and to other aspects of his life. All of the items in the collection are photocopies plus one typescript of one of the documents.

Dates: 1827-1860

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Garland Roark Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0181

Scope and Contents The collection spans Roark's writing career from 1943 until his death in 1985 and contains galley proofs and original handwritten and typed manuscripts of many of his books, newspaper articles, and other writings, including unpublished material. Also included are Roark's research notes and materials, and promotional material for the movies based on his novels Wake of the Red Witch, and Fair Wind to Java....

Dates: 1946-1988

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Rhodes Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0092

Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, reports on the ministry, announcements of preaching, sermon notes, receipts, miscellaneous reports, lists, programs, and a memorandum book and diary of Arnold Rhodes. The memorandum book and diary relate Rhodes' often discouraging experiences as an itinerant minister traveling throughout Southeast Texas. The collection contains the minutes of the 21st annual meeting of the New Bethel Association. Also included are newspaper clippings about Arnold...

Dates: 1876-1941

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Bryan J. Reynolds Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0073

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a notebook of carbon typescripts of poems, some of which are signed by the author, plus two poems xeroxed from the SFA student publication, Pulp. The poems offer a variety of settings. Many are about the sea and ports, others are set in East Texas, France and Spain. The author expresses concern about the World War in Europe and has tributes to three favorite authors, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant and Carl Sandburg.

Dates: 1940-1941

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Dr. James V. Reese Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0177

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of professional, student and personal correspondence, Historical Commissions, Museums and other publications, speeches, cards, invitations, and other material.

Dates: 1961-1999; Event: Donated 6/28/1999

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Laney Garrett Reed Letters

Collection

Identifier: A-0211

Dates: 1945

Found in: East Texas Research Center

J. E. Ray Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0270

Scope and Contents

The main item in this collection is a 15-page scrapbook given to Mrs. James Oscar Ray and H. T. Muckleroy by Aldrich Nelson Walker. The scrapbook contains photographs from the 1920s of family members, friends, and old Nacogdoches, including but not limited to: Stone's Mill, Christ Church, local schools, Arnold Street, Main Street Pharmacy, a Tyler Fire Truck, Main Street, Scouting, and Y.M.C.A. Small Gymnasium. Also in this collection are a photograph of James Oscar Ray and an old check.

Dates: 1920-1930

Found in: East Texas Research Center

C. Smith Ramsey Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0028

Scope and Contents

The Ramsey Collection consists chiefly of correspondence relating to some of Ramsey's experiences.

Dates: 1921-1967

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Ben Ramsey Speech

Collection

Identifier: A-0113

Scope and Contents

Speech delivered at the dedication of the Lyne Taliaferro Barret Memorial, Stephen F. Austin State University campus, by Ben Ramsey, the San Augustine, Texas, politician.

Dates: 9/30/1966

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Ida Pritchett Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0134

Scope and Contents

This collection includes programs, photographs, newspaper clippings on SFA and local musical events, and original hand-drawn and printed artwork.

Dates: 1923-1953

Found in: East Texas Research Center

William Hall Price Letters

Collection

Identifier: A-0190

Scope and Contents

Letters to Elijah, A. G. and William Hall Price.

Dates: 1860-1904

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Travis Price Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0185

Scope and Contents This collection is primarily a pictorial history of the U.S.S. Mobile, 1943-1945. It is 156 pages long and has hundreds of black and white photographs showing all aspects of the ship's participation in World War II. There are photographs of the men in each of their onboard duty departments (supply, navigation, communication, engineering, etc.)as well as candid images of them participating in sporting and club activities. The book has photogrpahs illustrating the Mobile's participation in...

Dates: 1945-1946

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Price-Burrows Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0148

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of photocopies of documents relating to Nacogdoches County land holdings of the Price and Burrows families. Folder 7 is orginal material.

Dates: 1872-1917

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Pressler Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0054

Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence, tax receipts, bills, and genealogical materials.

Dates: 1875-1978

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Holloway Lee Power Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0093

Scope and Contents

The collection contains agricultural, mathematical, and personal notes; religious meditations; correspondence; and a few legal and business papers. There are also some papers of one of Power's sons, Holloway Bunyan Power, born in 1834 in Alabama. He also was a farmer, and upon his father's death on November 6, 1866, he succeeded him as a preacher for Bethany Baptist Church. Some of the records of the church are included with this collection.

Dates: 1842-1978

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Clarice F. Pollard Collection

Collection — Box 1

Identifier: A-0223

Scope and Contents The scrapbook is predominantly and structured around a 21-page typescript entitled "A Khaki WAAC in the Lone Star State." Pollard supplemented the text with caricatures and cartoons, an issue from the class newsletter, the program to a variety show put on by her class, a copy of her transcript, and her class’ graduation program. Pollard includes photographs (originals and photocopies) of her herself, friends and classmates in uniform and in and around...

Dates: 1943-1989

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Ruth Terry Preston Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0238

Scope and Contents

Genealogical research on the Terry family

Dates: -

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Mary (Mollie) Evelyn Moore Davis Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: A-0098

Scope and Contents The Mollie Moore Davis Scrapbook contains a series of newspaper articles written shortly after her arrival in New Orleans and originally published in the Picayune under the series title "Keren-happuch and I." She describes the streets, shops, churches, and points of interest of the city as well as the people she encounters and events such as Mardi Gras and Christmas. The scrapbook was compiled by the author for a friend, A. H. Wilkins, who was a schoolbook...

Dates: 1885; Event: Donated in 1944

Found in: East Texas Research Center

William R. Davis Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0047

Scope and Contents The main document in this collection is an unpublished manuscript by William R. Davis entitled "The Foundation of Texas Culture." It traces the development of elementary, high school, black, and college education in Texas from the Republic to the 1950s. The manuscript has chapters on Texas culture (art, music, literature, and folklore) and a bibliography of Texana. The rest of the collection (which were transferred from the SFA Biography Files) consists of several articles, newspaper...

Dates: 1929-1955

Found in: East Texas Research Center