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A. Personal & Family Collection

 Record Group
Identifier: A

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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 378 Collections and/or Records:

Americus Langston Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0382
Content Description

Two small books, both missing one cover



Scope and Contents

The collection consists of two small notebooks. One notebook has a diary of Americus' life in 1862.

Dates: Event: Donated ; 1859-1879
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Glenda Hebert Watters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0380
Content Description

The collection consists of three photo albums of various poeple and places.

Dates: Event: Donated circa 2019; 1930-2009
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Whiddon-Lasseter Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0383
Content Description

Love letters from Richard Whiddon and Alice Lasseter. The letters contain day to day life, including people, parties, and church attendance.

Dates: Event: Donated 10/21/2022; 1901-1904
Found in: East Texas Research Center

A. H. Rowell Sr. Family Documents

 Collection
Identifier: A-0385
Scope and Contents

Two scrapbooks have newspaper clippings about the 1853 and 1856 elections. One document lists "Negros lost by Amansipations [emancipation], 1865" signed September 1865 by A.H. Rowell. There is one photo of two African American females.

Dates: Event: Donated 3/2/3023; 1842-1922
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

L. T. Barret Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0274
Scope and Contents The L. T. Barret Collection compliments the more extensive Lyne Taliaferro Barret Papers (A-5) by adding new documentation of L. T. Barret’s mercantile and farming pursuits, military service, masonry, and community service. While the collection consists primarily of bills, receipts and promissory notes issued and received by L. T. Barret and Thomas Jefferson Johnson, there is also business, family, military, and personal correspondence, advertising, slave contracts and legal documents. ...
Dates: 1839-1966
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Hulie W. Freeze Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0241
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Freeze's correspondences to various newspaper editor and his friend Agi Maier, as well as his unpublished manuscript on the Kennedy assassination.

Dates: 1908-1955
Found in: East Texas Research Center

R. C. McCrary WWII Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0156
Scope and Contents

This collection includes service documents, personal papers, and a diary in which McCrary kept details of bombing missions in Europe which he took part in from May to September, 1944. There are also aerial photographs from bombing raids into Germany.

Dates: 1941-1945
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Meador Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0188
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a marriage license, warranty deed, and middle school report cards from Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1906-1911, 1983; Event: Donated 6/23/1982; Event: Addendum donated 10/8/1990
Found in: East Texas Research Center

U.S.S. Stephen F. Austin Merchant Marine Ship Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0225
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photocopies of the U.S.S. Stephen F. Austin's logbooks as well as newspaper articles, photographs and correspondence pertaining to the vessel.

Dates: Event: Donated in 1996
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Gribble Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0264
Dates: 1870-1989
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Thad Sitton Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0268
Dates: 1931-1985
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Pitts Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0269
Scope and Contents

This collection contains documents ranging from German and U.S. newspaper clippings and newspapers to photographs of historic Nacogdoches landmarks such as the Stone Fort.

Dates: 1800-1989
Found in: East Texas Research Center

A. A. Nelson Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0272
Scope and Contents

The letters in this collection document A. A. Nelson II and Mattie Langston’s courtship and early marriage between 1895 to 1899 and provide a perspective of life in Nacogdoches in the late 19th century.

Dates: 1894-1899
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Lelia Berryman Crain Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0276
Dates: 1860-1924; Event: Donated 10/4/2011; Event: Addendum donated 2/19/2020
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Ellen Landers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0275
Scope and Contents While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1791-2006
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Thomas Jefferson Word Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0163
Arrangement This collection consists of three series arranged across two boxes and one oversized bundle. Series 1: Mississippi (Box 1)     Subseries 1: Personal Materials 1837-1872 – Correspondence, receipts, and personal estate documents in separate folders and in chronological order.     Subseries 2: Professional Legal Papers 1840-1871 – Correspondents and legal cases in separate folders and in...
Dates: 1834-1911
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Lita Mayberry Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0259
Scope and Contents The collection includes photographs collected during Mrs. Lita Mayberry's years as a school teacher and of her family life. Many of the earlier pictures are in the form of postcards. Subjects include students, family, and friends, many of whom are unnamed. Mayberry taught at least at Centerville, Hudson Grade, Hudson Elementary, Herty School, East Ward School, and Kurth Elementary School. In looking at the series of photographs, one sees the progression of time in clothing, quality of...
Dates: 1912-1961; Event: Donated in 2009
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Stephen W. Blount Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0260
Dates: 1831-1908
Found in: East Texas Research Center

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