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A. Personal & Family Collection

 Classification
Identifier: A
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:

Atkinson-Fall Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0333
Content Description

This collection consists of materials from the Atkinson and Fall families of Chireno, Texas. The bulk of the materials are land records (deeds, deeds of trust and warranty deeds), but there are also some business receipts, tax receipts, and a poem.

Dates: Event: Donated 7/16/2019; 1849-1917

Stephen W. Blount and Benjamin F. Price Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0329
Content Description

Letters, photographs, land documents, and other legal and personal documents

Dates: Donated 4/7/2018

Edwin Welsh Bush Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0334
Scope and Contents The diary kept by Edwin Welsh Bush documents his journey from Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee to Texas in 1852. Bush entered the state by way of Pendleton’s Ferry and then made his way through Milam, San Augustine, Melrose, and Nacogdoches. The diary also contains notes written about travels through Texas and return trips to Tennessee between 1853 and 1854. Interesting anecdotes include Sam Houston’s railroad speech in Nacogdoches June 14, 1853; the Fourth of July in Melrose; the...
Dates: Event: Donated 9/9/2019

Colonial Spanish Horse Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0323
Scope and Contents

The papers, letters, articles, and photographs in this collection were used by Gretchen Patterson in 2018 for her Master’s thesis “The Preservation of the Colonial Spanish Horse and Robert E. Brislawn, Sr.” These items came into her possession when the Horse of the Americas Registry re-incorporated in the State of Texas in 2000. Patterson is the official secretary of the corporation as well as the registrar.

Dates: Donated 5/9/2018

Flores-Patterson Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0335
Content Description

Photographs (18); postcards (12); funeral notice and obituary of Fred W. Harlacher; and genealogical research (photocopies of pedigree charts, family trees, notes, and photographs) on the Flores and Patterson families

Dates: 1910-1943

Louise Spies Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0336
Content Description

The collection consists of several letters to Louise Spies and graduation cards.

Dates: 1929-1933

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

Shady Grove Community

 Collection
Identifier: A-0338
Content Description

The collection contains two photographs of the Shady Grove school, one Woodman of the World Camp record book from 1930, and one directory of names and phone numbers from the 1950s.

Dates: 1900s-1950s

Williams Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0339
Content Description

The bulk of the collection is genealogical information on the Williams and Bickley families. The Journal has an autobiography written by S. R. Williams along with biographical information about members of his family.

Dates: 1900-1981

Parker Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0340
Content Description

The bulk of the collection is about Tom Parker and his daughter Nancy Parker. There are two interesting items from World War I in the collection: Tom Parker's identification tags and a pair of scissors he carried through the war in his first aid kit.

Dates: 1917-1966

Kerr/Carr Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0341
Content Description

The bulk of the collection consists of family letters. Most letters were written by family members in Jackson County, North Carolina to William Kerr(1839-1912) in Texas. Letters from Jesse Kerr were addressed to both his brother William and his son William.

Dates: 1872-1920

Sam N. Lee Journals

 Collection
Identifier: A-0342
Scope and Contents

The 1884 to 1913 journals were written by Sam Lee. The journal entries are short and mostly describe crops being planted or harvested. There are some personal notes of information such as when his sister Cordie or Bessie visit, who preached the church services and where, and when people in the community died.

Dates: 1884-1913

Durst-Davenport Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0343
Content Description

The collection consists of mostly legal documents and receipts associated with J. B. B. Davenport and his son, J. B. Davenport.

Dates: 1829-1905

Frank P. Hathcock Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0346
Content Description The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by Frank P. Hathcock.While each of Frank’s letters contains unique details or observations, they also convey principal themes born from his wartime service. Some are tied to his hopes for a productive life after the war, many recall the pleasures of home, others are anchored in his daily experiences, and a few capture his thoughts for lasting peace to overcome causes of global conflict.Frank never ended a letter...
Dates: 1942-1945

Berry Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0344
Content Description

Most of the collection centers around the 1951 Army Security Agency ROTC Summer Camp. Vernon was an editor on the pictorial book created to document their expereinces. Many of the photographs have detailed descriptions on the back, including ones that were not added to the book.

Dates: 1899-1956

D.A. Orviss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0345
Content Description

Most of the collection are letters about his business, there are two letters from his cousin Harriet Ellen Shawn living in Maine.

Dates: 1856-1880

Val Henry Sharp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0347
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of three items, a 1917 “Exemption from Service” certificate, a drawing of a dogtrot house, and a Harris county “Abstract for Title”.

Dates: 1912-1917

Jewel and Josie Pack Atkinson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0348
Scope and Contents

The majority of the collection are letters, postcards, and photographs associated with Josie Pack Wilson Atkinson.

Dates: 1873-1963

R. A. Ewing Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0349
Content Description

Cherokee Co. records pertaining to R. A. Ewing: deeds and land papers related to Ironton, heirship affidavits, Ewing family genealogy, information on Boggy Creek and Carey Lake, and an oversize map of north part of the county

Dates: Event: Donated 5/23/2019; 1878-1958

Frank La Forge Sheet Music

 Collection
Identifier: A-0350
Content Description

1 piece of sheet music "Souvenir de Vienne”

Dates: 1911