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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 375 Collections and/or Records:

Whitaker-Fenley Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0115
Scope and Contents This collection consists of photocopies and typed transcripts of Civil War letters written from John P. Whitaker to his wife Mary S. ("Dollie") Fenley Whitaker. His letters were written from Louisiana and Arkansas and contain descriptions of camp conditions, war news and rumors, and reports on friends and family, including Mary's brothers John and William, Lawrence and Charles S. Taylor, Henderson Muckleroy, John Baugh, and Capt. Joseph H. Bruton. Whitaker assisted with nursing the...
Dates: 1862-1864

Watts Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0126
Abstract

Correspondence, land documents, legal and financial papers of this San Augustine County family. Family members also lived in Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi and items in the collection relate to those places. Includes correspondence with James Pinckney Henderson, the first Governor of the State of Texas.

Dates: 1806-1964

Watkins Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0051
Abstract

Legal documents of Jesse Watkins, Justice of the Peace of Nacogdoches (1837-1838); diary and autobiography of Richard Overton Watkins, Presbyterian minister and Texas Ranger of Nacogdoches; reminiscences of Jesse J. Watkins about the Runaway Scrape, the Cherokee Indian War and other early Texas events; and genealogical material of the Watkins family.

Dates: 1836-1973

Waterhouse Murder Trial Records

 Collection
Identifier: A-0062
Abstract

Typed transcript of examinations of Malvin Houston and William M. Everett, defendants, and statements of witnesses in the case of the robbery and murder of Colonel Richard Waterhouse of San Augustine, Texas.

Dates: 1864

Ronald Wade East Texas History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0235
Arrangement

Boxes 1-8 (12 linear feet) do not have a defined intellectual hierarchy beyond the physical box/folder division of the collection. Box 9 (0.5 linear feet) is a 2012 addendum and arranged into 3 series: 1. Presidents (9 folders) 2. Politicians and Political Events (3 folders) 3. Miscellaneous (1 folder)

Dates: 1819-2000

Roy Howard Baskin, Sr. Essays

 Collection
Identifier: A-0239
Scope and Contents

Six notebooks of essays, notebooks are indexed.  Essays have been transcribed and published in book form.

Dates: 1906-1911, 1954-1955; Event: Donated in 2000

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

Peter Ellis Bean Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0139
Scope and Contents

Original documents, photocopies, typescripts, and newspaper clippings relating to Bean's life and activities. Included in the collection is an agreement to use a Salt Lick in 1835 and an 1835 bond for debts owed.

Dates: 1835-1983

Frederick Voigt Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0117
Scope and Contents The collection consists of photocopis and typed transcripts of letters from Voigt to his first wife, written during his service in the Confederate Army. They contain descriptions of camp life including health conditions, food, clothing, and drilling. He also writes about the progress of the war and personal matters relating to family and Nacogdoches friends. Among those persons mentioned frequently are Fritz Hoya, Charles S. Taylor and family, Capt. Henry C. Hancock, William Clark, and W....
Dates: 1862-1863

Janet Turner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0032
Abstract

Artist and faculty member at SFASU. Collection includes newspaper clippings, programs of exhibits, original drawings illustrating The Yazoo River, prints of birds of Eastern Texas and Western Louisiana, magazine articles illustrated by Turner, and biographical information.

Dates: 1950-1989

Turner Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0153
Abstract

Smith County, Texas family. Letters, land office document, and poem relating to the Tillman J. Turner family. Several letters concern incidents during the Civil War.

Dates: 1857-1876

William H. Tucker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0079
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of correspondence to, from and about Tucker concerning family matters, politics, the Civil War, and farming.

Dates: 1850-1883

F. I. Tucker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0249
Abstract

The collection consists correspondences, newspapers articles, and research concerning the Texas Historical Foundation and East Texas.

Dates: 1820-1965

John August Tubbe Sr. Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0243
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of family photographs, letters and tax receipts.

Dates: 1897-1945

Charles H. Tindall Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0246
Scope and Contents

This is a small collection and consists primarily of photographs and newspaper clippings about the family of Charles H. Tindall. The collection also includes a song book and Dr. Tindall's prescription book.

Dates: 1902-1988

Tilden Tilford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0114
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of typed manuscripts of Monterey and The Face; several magazines containing short stories; reviews and literary criticism; a photograph of Tilford; biographical information; and historical data on the Tilford-Hunt Lumber Company

Dates: 1894-1981

T. Gillette Tilford Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0150
Scope and Contents

This collection includes essays, pamphlets, two speeches, and three scrapbooks containing Tilford's "Out of My Mind" columns written for the Sunday Sentinel,1979-1981.

Dates: 1957-1983

Susan Wroe Edwards Thorn Journal

 Collection
Identifier: A-0101
Abstract

Typescript of a journal describing the early days of the Texas Revolution and a trip from Nacogdoches to Clifton Forge, Virginia, by this wife of a prominent Nacogdoches businessman. Also includes biographical and genealogical information on the Thorn family and their descendants.

Dates: 1835-1836

Larry D. Thomas Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0262
Scope and Contents

Poems, published materials, internet materials, third party materials, newspaper clippings, awards, photographs, and correspondence and letters with publishers, editors, writers, fans, friends, and organizations.

Dates: 1970-2022

Dan Beaty Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0220
Scope and Contents

Music compositions and lecture notes from his teaching career at Stephen F. Austin State University. Alss included is his thesis dissertation, class notes, and assignments.

Dates: 1959-2000; Event: Donated in 2003