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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:

Nettie E. Marshall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0352
Scope and Contents

The collection contains five items about Nettie Marshall.

Dates: Event: Donated September 2015

Mary Clark Recipe

 Collection
Identifier: A-0353
Scope and Contents

One recipe for eascakes.

Dates: 1880-1940

Jesse D. Mixon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0354
Content Description

World War 1 and World War 2 maps and a World War 1 roster book.

Dates: Event: Donated 4/22/2013; 1919-1945

Joel C. and Alice A. Ford Crain Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0355
Scope and Contents

The collection contains five photographs from the 1920s of Caddo Lake General Store, J. C. Crain Grocery & Market, and Johnson Brothers Ranch. Postcard of T & P Hospital in Marshall, Texas. Nacogdoches, Texas Fredonia Hotel, postcard, newspaper clipping and advertisement.

Dates: Event: Donated 8/15/2017; 1920-1961

Von Bibber's Rock poem

 Collection
Identifier: A-0356
Scope and Contents

The collection is one poem.

Dates: 1892

R. B. Martin World War II Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0357
Content Description

The bulk of the collection are letters that Roy Martin wrote to Pat Justice (Salena Justice) in 1943.

Dates: 1943-1946; Event: Donated 9/20/2011

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