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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 377 Collections and/or Records:

Cox-Day Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0143
Scope and Contents

Collection includes a daily diary of J. A. Day (1938-1939), account book (1875-1935) of J. A. Day which includes payments and collections of Melrose Circuit (Methodist Church); and photocopy of Minute Book of the Shady Grove United Friends of Temperance (1885-1887).

Dates: 1853-1939

Guy Cox Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0075
Scope and Contents

This collection includes personal and business correspondence; records relating to personnel transfers, pay increases, promotions, efficiency reports; service awards; poems and letters written upon the occasion of Cox's retirement; and Cox's homey reminiscences of his 35 years as a District Forest Ranger.

Dates: 1919-1953

Crawford-Yancy-Scrogins Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0155
Scope and Contents

The collection contains original documents, including legal and financial records, land papers, and personal correspondence concerning the Crawford, Yancy and Scroggins families, 1823-1902.

Dates: 1787-1902

Burton Crossland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0040
Scope and Contents The collection includes personal and business letters, accounts, agreements, receipts and other business and legal papers of the Lister family of Tennessee and Shelby Co., Texas (1834-1867); personal letters of the Jordan Williams family of Selma and Alpine, Alabama (1857-1862) chiefly to Rosalindy Lister; and field notes, plats, deeds, bonds, court orders, accounts, receipts, land documents and letters of James R. Arnold, William W. Garret, and James S. Linn of Nacogdoches Co., Texas...
Dates: 1787-1987; Event: Donated in 1959; Event: Addendum donated in 1985

Alfred S. Shivers Manuscript of Maxwell Anderson

 Collection
Identifier: A-0157
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the original typed manuscript, with corrections and notations, and the galleys, for Shivers' book, 'The Life of Maxwell Anderson', published by Stein and Day in 1983.

Dates: 1982-1983

Barry Monroe Shipp Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0192
Scope and Contents

Four years of income tax returns and related documentation.

Dates: 1944-1949

Shindler-Palmer Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0082
Scope and Contents

This collection consists entirely of photocopies of the original items usually accompanied by photocopies of a typed transcription of the original. Occasionally only the typed transcript is in the collection.

Dates: 1715-1951

Emily Hughes Davis Sexton Diary

 Collection
Identifier: A-0061
Scope and Contents

In the diary she writes of her daily activities - church, quilting, gardening, horseback riding, callers who came and visits she paid. She writes about Francis Wilson (Methodist preacher. See Francis Wilson Papers), a Methodist Conference, the Regulator-Moderator War and Sam Houston's coming to settle the disputes

Dates: 1844-1845

L. G. Schenck-Southland Paper Mills Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0170
Scope and Contents

This small collection consists of early documents and later papers relating to Southland Paper Mills, Lufkin, Texas.

Dates: 1935-1969

Annie Virginia Sanders Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0094
Scope and Contents The collection consists of personal correspondence, notes, programs, accounts, souvenirs, religious materials, bills, receipts, and miscellaneous personal mementoes of Virgie Sanders. Also included are newspaper clippings about Virgie Sanders. The collection includes items about Nacogdoches history, Texas history, and the Texas Centennial. Topics about Nacogdoches include historic trees, the Old Nacogdoches University, businesses, historical markers, the Old Stone Fort, the Nacogdoches...
Dates: 1896-1973

San Augustine County Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0169
Scope and Contents

This is a small collection of documents relating to San Augustine County, Texas, which were acquired from a variety of sources, some unknown. The majority of items in the collection are funeral notices and entrance certificates. Unless otherwise noted at the end of each individual entry, the document is an original.

Dates: 1838-1936

Russell-Cronkrite Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0035
Scope and Contents

An addition was made to this collection which consists chiefly of the business correspondence, personal correspondence and miscellaneous legal and business papers of A. T. Russell Also included are photographs, various mementos, newspaper clippings, and other family materials collected by Josephine Russell, daughter of Clara Cronkrite and A. T. Russell.

Dates: 1874-1978

Thomas J. Rusk Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0136
Scope and Contents This collection was formed by gathering items from a variety of sources. The family Bible of Thomas J. Rusk, gift of a descendant, and a letter written by him to his brother, David, were transferred to us by the Stone Fort Museum. The letter was written during the same time period, that of Rusk's service as a U. S. Senator in Washington, as letters in the Department in the Thomas J. Rusk Letters collection. The "Heritage" columns by Lucille Fain which appeared in the ...
Dates: 1826-1978

Rusk County Daybook and Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: A-0200
Scope and Contents

The scrapbook (pages 1-70) consists of stories and other clippings from Rusk County, Texas newspapers as late as 1892. The daybook (pages 71-211) is from Henderson, Texas and records the accounts of various customers at a mercantile store, 1850-1851. This book is a photostat. The owner and location of the original copy is unknown.

Dates: 1850-1892; Event: Photostat of the original made 8/1966

Rusche Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0131
Scope and Contents The collection includes land deeds as well as an original land grant to Nacogdoches University, signed by Governor Elisha M. Pease. Other papers in the collection are the passport of Heinrich Rusche from Oldenburg, naturalization papers of Francis Rusche, correspondence, and financial papers. Other Nacogdoches citizens mentioned in the papers are Bernard Witkorn, Frederick Voigt, Jacob Harlacher, Rinaldo Hotchkiss, and James H. Starr. Land papers of the Cherino and Santos Coy families are...
Dates: 1848-1895, 1987

William Roark Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0146
Scope and Contents

The items in this collection relate to William Roark's work as a surveyor and in other official positions, to the buying and selling of slaves, and to other aspects of his life. All of the items in the collection are photocopies plus one typescript of one of the documents.

Dates: 1827-1860

Garland Roark Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0181
Scope and Contents The collection spans Roark's writing career from 1943 until his death in 1985 and contains galley proofs and original handwritten and typed manuscripts of many of his books, newspaper articles, and other writings, including unpublished material. Also included are Roark's research notes and materials, and promotional material for the movies based on his novels Wake of the Red Witch, and Fair Wind to Java....
Dates: 1946-1988

Rhodes Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0092
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, reports on the ministry, announcements of preaching, sermon notes, receipts, miscellaneous reports, lists, programs, and a memorandum book and diary of Arnold Rhodes. The memorandum book and diary relate Rhodes' often discouraging experiences as an itinerant minister traveling throughout Southeast Texas. The collection contains the minutes of the 21st annual meeting of the New Bethel Association. Also included are newspaper clippings about Arnold...
Dates: 1876-1941

Bryan J. Reynolds Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0073
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a notebook of carbon typescripts of poems, some of which are signed by the author, plus two poems xeroxed from the SFA student publication, Pulp. The poems offer a variety of settings. Many are about the sea and ports, others are set in East Texas, France and Spain. The author expresses concern about the World War in Europe and has tributes to three favorite authors, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant and Carl Sandburg.

Dates: 1940-1941

Dr. James V. Reese Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0177
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of professional, student and personal correspondence, Historical Commissions, Museums and other publications, speeches, cards, invitations, and other material.

Dates: 1961-1999; Event: Donated 6/28/1999