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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 373 Collections and/or Records:

Robbie Choate Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0358
Content Description

The collection consists of one Nacogdoches High School Scrapbook, letters and some educational related material.

Dates: 1929-1933; Event: Donated 1/13/2020

Summers Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0359
Content Description

The collection is mostly deed records and ledgers for rent and cash. Of interest is some WWI photographs and menus from the steamship Abangarez.

Dates: 1860-1988; Event: Donated 1/13/2020

Davidson Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0360
Scope and Contents

The collection mostly consist of genealogical information on the Davidson and allied families.

Dates: Event: Donated 1/18/2017

Thomas E. Broughton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0361
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one specialty made leather bound album. The title page is inscribed with “Dedicated to our Dear Commander 1st Ltn. Thomas E. Broughton in kind remembrance. Officers and guards of the 8599 Lab. Serv. Co.” Pins inside the album include a Kotwica and other Polish military pins.

Dates: Event: Donated 4/4/2016

Turlington Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0362
Content Description

Family photographs, baby books, teaching certificates, letters, particularly re: Marguerite Pierce Turlington, Margaret Elma Turlington Randolph (sister-in-law) and William West Randolph (nephew); receipts from Rusk Co. businesses; papers on the organization and management of the Harmony Hill Cemetery Association; invoices and checks for Marguerite P. Turlington's donations to the First Baptist Church of Tatum; and royalty checks and estate planning documents for Marguerite P. Turlington.

Dates: Event: Donated 10/18/2018; 1861-1998

Russell F. "Jack" Moore and Eva Simpson Moore Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0363
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of five series Cherokee County Historical Commission files on hisotrical markers and correspondence, research files on various topics, material from schools Jack worked at, personal material, and material from Dr. J.W. Moore.

Dates: Event: Donated 10/21/2020; 1851-1999

Elizabeth Brown Ebaugh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0364
Content Description

Research material on Jacksonville and Cherokee County, Texas

Dates: Event: Donated 10/21/2020; 1890-1969

Richard and Ruth Muckelroy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0365
Content Description

Letters, photographs, postcards, military manuals, masonic booklets, cookbooks, and other ephemera.

Dates: Event: Donated 8/8/2016 by the First United Methodist Church of Nacogdoches; 1921-2002

Smelley-Whitmire Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0366
Content Description

Fox hunting information and genealogy books

Dates: Event: Addendum donated 8/19/2014; 1953-2010

Richard S. Orton Collection

 File
Identifier: A-0369
Scope and Contents The Richard S. Orton Collection consists of the photographs from two exhibits created by Orton and a series of 16 oral history interviews about African Americans in Nacogdoches County. The photographs capture authentic interactions between teachers and school children at several schools in Austin (1986-1990) and scenes of faith, family and life at Upshaw family reunions at County Line, an African American freedom colony in Nacogdoches County (1988-1998). The exhibit label text which appeared...
Dates: Event: Donated 10/9/2008

Grimes-Koonce Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0371
Content Description

The bulk of the collection consists of family photographs and funeral books.

Dates: Event: Donated 10/23/2020

Emeline Risinger and Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0367
Content Description

Family materials for the Smelley, Whitmire, Swink, and Risinger families, including letters, postcards, photographs, negatives, and genealogical research.

Dates: Donated 4/26/2019

N. Campbell Cox Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-372
Content Description

Scrapbooks, post cards and photographs

Dates: Event: Donated 7/26/2012

The D. L. and Rosa Hancock Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0375
Content Description

World War 1 letters, house ledger, and clothing associated with D. L. Hancock and Rosa Peterson.

Dates: Event: Donated 8/3/2021; 1918-2021

Hardy Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0373
Content Description

The collection contains 1954 letters from Charles Hardy to his wife Joyce, 1960's letters from Agnes Campbell (Joyce's step-mother) to Joyce, photographs of Charles Hardy's family, and biographical materials on Charles and Joyce Campbell Hardy.

Dates: Event: Donated 6/7/2021

Hall Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0368
Scope and Contents There are a wide range of materials in the Hall Family Collection. In the personal and family correspondence there are court records, diary entries, holiday cards, letters, newspaper clippings, notebooks, notes, poetry, postcards, sympathy cards, and telegrams. The business records in the collection often consist of accounts, bills, ledger books, letters, memos, minutes, notes, promissory notes, receipts, and reports. Leisure and travel are most often documented with booklets, brochures,...
Dates: Event: Donated 11/2/2019

Charles Truett and Patsy Wainwright Parrish Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0378
Content Description

This collection consist of correspondence from family and friends to Patsy as well as her husband and children. It also contains christmas cards, wedding invites and mulitple thank you cards to the family. It contains photos, art work and school work from her children and students Patsy had over the years. The collection also consist of many miscellaneous momentos she has collected during her lifetime.

Dates: 1963-1990; Event: Donated 2014

Hamilton and Mary Nichols Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0376
Content Description The collection consists of a letter written by Mary Louise Fant concerning a pamphlet about racial integration by one T. G. Tilford, a magnetic record disc with unkown audio, several pieces of World War One memorabilia including position maps, a regiment book, a souvenir folder. and a song booklet. There are also forty-eight postcards addressed to various people, two postcard books from France, seven tintype photographs, two large photographs, and twelve World War One souvenir photographs....
Dates: Event: Donate 10/25/2021; 1899-1963

Marvin T. Powers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0374
Dates: Donated 4/26/2021

James D. Strickland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0379
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of folders containing memorabilia from James Strickland while he was in the navy.

Dates: Event: Donated 10/18/2021 ; Event: 1938-1959