A. Personal & Family Collection
Found in 372 Collections and/or Records:
T. Gillette Tilford Collection
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.
Susan Wroe Edwards Thorn Journal
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.
Larry D. Thomas Collection
Poems, published materials, internet materials, third party materials, newspaper clippings, awards, photographs, and correspondence and letters with publishers, editors, writers, fans, friends, and organizations.
Dan Beaty Collection
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.
Marguerite Crouse Bezanson World War II Collection
The collection consists chiefly of special orders relating to the military service and career of Bezanson, most of which were issued at the Nacogdoches Army Administration School.
John C. Birdwell Letters
Birdwell Family Papers
Joel Birdwell family land documents from Nacogdoches and Rusk Counties.
Albert and Lera Millard Thomas Letters
Letters to and from family members and friends with the majoritiy of the letters being from Albert to Lera.
Alfred Penn Texian Loan Certificate
A Texian loan certificate that includes Stephen F. Austin's signature (not in good condition).
Teutsch Early Nacogdoches Documents
Photos of 19th and 20th century Nacogdoches and Nacogdoches County. Taken from books, newspapers, originals and post cards. Fire Department minute books 1907-1973.
Charles S. Taylor Papers
Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.
Sam B. Bedinger Manuscript Collection
Typescript of unpublished manuscript by Reverend S. B. (Sam) Bedinger entitled "The Story of Nicholas A. Davis" which consists of materials relating to the life of Nicholas A. Davis. It includes Davis' early background, his years as chaplain in Hood's Brigade and his varied life after returning to Texas from the war which included building churches, serving as a Trinity University Trustee and as president of Rusk Transportation Company.
W. T. Block Collection
The collection consists of research notes, unpublished manuscripts and a large collection of the newspaper articles Block wrote for the 'Beaumont Enterprise between 1998 and 2004. The collection also has the manuscript pages by chapter for 'Mill Towns and Ghost Towns of East Texas', which contains information about mill towns, sawmills, tram roads, and logging camps relating to East Texas lumbering towns.
Edwin N. Swinburn Collection
This collection has photocopies of Edwin N. Swinburn's autobiography, his Confederate enlistment and discharge papers, newspaper articles about his wife's death, and reminiscences of his 86th, 88th, 90th birthday.
Lois Foster Blount Papers
Swank Family World War II Collection
Materials relating to the military careers of Lufkin residents Harry F. Swank, Marine Corps (1941-1945) and his wife, Mary Addie Foster, Marine Corps Women's Reservists (1943-1945). Includes a Bible issued to service personnel and a war ration book.
Stone Fort Collection
Deeds and other documents relating to the ownership of the Stone Fort and the lot on which it stood in downtown Nacogdoches.
R. B. Blake Collection
Bone Family Letters
Elga Daniels Bonifield Papers
This collection consists of a scrapbook, fan mail, correspondence, newspaper clippings and magazines with articles about Elga, photographs, mementos, Elga's tour notes, and her writings for periodicals.