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 371 Collections and/or Records:

Martha Frances Hill Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0096

Scope and Contents The collection indicates little about Miss Hill's family. She likely had relatives in Tennessee as implied by a 1913 postcard from Aunt Mar postmarked Memphis, TN; a 1907 graduation invitation to Ward Seminary in Nashville, TN, listing Mary Demoville Hill of Tennessee in its Senior Class; a 1907 obituary of V. M. Fulton, who married Miss Lulu Hill at Nashville, TN on January 5, 1893; and an 1892 handwritten newspaper from Willard, Tennessee, called "The Willard News." The above...

Dates: 1892-1939

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Martha Frances Hill Papers

Martin Parmer (Palmer) Manuscript by William Physick Zuber

Collection

Identifier: A-0103

Abstract

Biographical sketch of Parmer, a Texas Revolution participant and Convention delegate (1835-1836), with material on Parmer's involvement in the Fredonian Rebellion (1826-1827) in an Indian battle near Gonzalez, as well as activities of Parmer's son, Isom. Includes Palmer/Parmer family history material.

Dates: 7/23/1902

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Martin Parmer (Palmer) Manuscript by William Physick Zuber

Marvin T. Powers Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0374

Dates: Donated 4/26/2021

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Marvin T. Powers Collection

Mary Clark Recipe

Collection

Identifier: A-0353

Scope and Contents

One recipe for eascakes.

Dates: 1880-1940

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Mary Clark Recipe

Mary Dorsey Bates Genealogy Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0319

Content Description

East Texas family history; programs from various organizations; church, Masonic, cemetery and school records; letters; photographs; and notes about Captain Cooper's house.

Dates: 1839-1989

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Mary Dorsey Bates Genealogy Collection

Mary Hofmann Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0144

Scope and Contents

The papers include letters to Mary Hofmann concerning her work, a climatological data sheet from 1941, Mary Hofmann's certificate of authority allowing her to make the meteorological reports, and the meteorological records for each month of the years 1900-1944. H. H. Cooper served as weather observer from 1900 to mid-1903 when Mary took over the job.

Dates: 1900-1945

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Mary Hofmann Papers

Mary Louisa Johnson Boone Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0090

Scope and Contents The reminiscence are broken up into short half-page to a page entries and poems about Mrs. Boone's life. This volume is a photocopy made in 1967 from the family copy in possession of Mrs. Anne P. Shaw, Longview, Texas. Table of Contents MY STORY (Dear Children, I think I will sit down awhile), 1 DAVIS FAMILY (A little of your family tree), 2 OUR FAMILY TREE (A Major up in Washington fixed our family tree), 2 Chart of Families, 3 The Davis Family...

Dates: 1952

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Mary Louisa Johnson Boone Collection

Mary Lynn Baxter Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0204

Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings about Mary Lynn Baxter and galleys of two of her novels, Another Kind of Love and Shared Moments, both published by Silhouette Books.

Dates: Event: Donated 9/7/1983

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Mary Lynn Baxter Papers

Mary Lynn Pleasant Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0337

Content Description

The collection consists of 49 photographs of people, most of whom are from the Black Jack Community in Nacogdoches County Texas.

Dates: 1940s-1950s

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Mary Lynn Pleasant Collection

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 / Mary (Mollie) Evelyn Moore Davis Scrapbook

Mary Small Fitzgerald Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0055

Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence, poems, and biographical and genealogical materials.

Dates: 1924-1979

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Mary Small Fitzgerald Papers

Marylois Dunn Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0106

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of manuscripts; galley proofs; correspondence from editors, friends, and fans; reviews; newspaper clippings; and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1967-1975, 1982

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Marylois Dunn Papers

Mattie Lou McLendon-Ballard Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0228

Scope and Contents The collection contains over one hundred and thirty letters and fragments of McLendon family letters, most sent to Nancy Bridges, her daughter Lydia McLendon, Lydia's husband Loami and their daughter Mattie Lou McLendon. The dates of the letters range from 1849-1902 and are sent from various family members such as John E. McLendon, his brother Bartow and various friends. They paint a detailed picture of weather, crops and economics of the time period, both in East Texas and Alabama, where...

Dates: 1849-1933

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Mattie Lou McLendon-Ballard Papers

Mattie Sharp Brewer Research Papers on George Louis Crocket

Collection

Identifier: A-0038

Scope and Contents

Included in Miss Brewer's gift are correspondence, newspaper articles, and photographs relating to Crocket, among them being views of some of his carvings.

Dates: 1845-1970

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Mattie Sharp Brewer Research Papers on George Louis Crocket

May Olivia Miller Pinson Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0310

Dates: 1476-1986

Found in: East Texas Research Center / May Olivia Miller Pinson Collection

McFarland-Russell Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0019

Scope and Contents

The McFarland-Russell family papers consist of personal and business correspondence, legal and business papers, Confederacy related items, materials related to the history of Orange, Texas, and a large amount of material of personal and genealogical interest produced and collected by members of these two East Texas families.

Dates: 1832-1950

Found in: East Texas Research Center / McFarland-Russell Family Papers

McMurry Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0178

Scope and Contents

This collection has genealogical records for the McMurry family. Historians of Robertson County, Texas may find documents in this collection useful.

Dates: 1844-1905

Found in: East Texas Research Center / McMurry Family Papers

McPhail-Hartgraves Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0029

Scope and Contents

Collection contains genealogical research mostly pertaining to the Earnest, Gaston, Hamilton, and Killion families. Includes Bible owned by Mary V. Hartgraves Bible.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1968-1994

Found in: East Texas Research Center / McPhail-Hartgraves Family Collection

Meador Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0188

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a marriage license, warranty deed, and middle school report cards from Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1906-1911, 1983; Event: Donated 6/23/1982; Event: Addendum donated 10/8/1990

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Meador Family Papers

Memory Brockman Lanford Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0135

Scope and Contents

The bible records (1830-1974) include births, deaths, and marriages of the Lanford, Yandle, Jimmerson, Wright, and Rodgers families of Henderson, Rusk County, Texas.

Dates: 1853

Found in: East Texas Research Center / Memory Brockman Lanford Family Collection