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 376 Collections and/or Records:

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

N. Campbell Cox Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-372

Content Description

Scrapbooks, post cards and photographs

Dates: Event: Donated 7/26/2012

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Marvin T. Powers Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0374

Dates: Donated 4/26/2021

Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Bob Pierce Letters

Collection

Identifier: A-0210

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a compilation of letters sent home to family in the early 1970s by Bob Pierce during his tour of duty in the Vietnam War, with the exception of one letter sent to Pierce from his sister, Kathy. The letters only indicate the day and month that they were written, with postmark information on two letters indicating the year in which written. The letters involve general information about conditions and circumstances experienced while serving duty in Vietnam, and...

Dates: circa 1970-1972

Found in: East Texas Research Center

J. B. Sanders Research Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0273

Scope and Contents The research collection has a wide range of materials--correspondence, maps, negatives, photographic prints, pedigree charts, research for Sanders’s publications, as well as a few of those publications—concerning the families and places of East Texas. The majority of negatives and prints are photographs of other photographs or documents. Several prints, especially those of a 1928 lynching at the Center Courthouse, are particularly graphic. There are several oversize documents in the...

Dates: 1833-1978

Found in: East Texas Research Center