A. Personal & Family Collection

Classification

Identifier: A

Staff Only

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:

Laney Garrett Reed Letters

Collection

Identifier: A-0211

Dates: 1945

Found in: East Texas Research Center

J. E. Ray Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0270

Scope and Contents

The main item in this collection is a 15-page scrapbook given to Mrs. James Oscar Ray and H. T. Muckleroy by Aldrich Nelson Walker. The scrapbook contains photographs from the 1920s of family members, friends, and old Nacogdoches, including but not limited to: Stone's Mill, Christ Church, local schools, Arnold Street, Main Street Pharmacy, a Tyler Fire Truck, Main Street, Scouting, and Y.M.C.A. Small Gymnasium. Also in this collection are a photograph of James Oscar Ray and an old check.

Dates: 1920-1930

Found in: East Texas Research Center

C. Smith Ramsey Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0028

Scope and Contents

The Ramsey Collection consists chiefly of correspondence relating to some of Ramsey's experiences.

Dates: 1921-1967

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Ben Ramsey Speech

Collection

Identifier: A-0113

Scope and Contents

Speech delivered at the dedication of the Lyne Taliaferro Barret Memorial, Stephen F. Austin State University campus, by Ben Ramsey, the San Augustine, Texas, politician.

Dates: 9/30/1966

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Ida Pritchett Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0134

Scope and Contents

This collection includes programs, photographs, newspaper clippings on SFA and local musical events, and original hand-drawn and printed artwork.

Dates: 1923-1953

Found in: East Texas Research Center

William Hall Price Letters

Collection

Identifier: A-0190

Scope and Contents

Letters to Elijah, A. G. and William Hall Price.

Dates: 1860-1904

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Travis Price Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0185

Scope and Contents This collection is primarily a pictorial history of the U.S.S. Mobile, 1943-1945. It is 156 pages long and has hundreds of black and white photographs showing all aspects of the ship's participation in World War II. There are photographs of the men in each of their onboard duty departments (supply, navigation, communication, engineering, etc.)as well as candid images of them participating in sporting and club activities. The book has photogrpahs illustrating the Mobile's participation in...

Dates: 1945-1946

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Price-Burrows Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0148

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of photocopies of documents relating to Nacogdoches County land holdings of the Price and Burrows families. Folder 7 is orginal material.

Dates: 1872-1917

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Pressler Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0054

Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence, tax receipts, bills, and genealogical materials.

Dates: 1875-1978

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Holloway Lee Power Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0093

Scope and Contents

The collection contains agricultural, mathematical, and personal notes; religious meditations; correspondence; and a few legal and business papers. There are also some papers of one of Power's sons, Holloway Bunyan Power, born in 1834 in Alabama. He also was a farmer, and upon his father's death on November 6, 1866, he succeeded him as a preacher for Bethany Baptist Church. Some of the records of the church are included with this collection.

Dates: 1842-1978

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Clarice F. Pollard Collection

Collection — Box 1

Identifier: A-0223

Scope and Contents The scrapbook is predominantly and structured around a 21-page typescript entitled "A Khaki WAAC in the Lone Star State." Pollard supplemented the text with caricatures and cartoons, an issue from the class newsletter, the program to a variety show put on by her class, a copy of her transcript, and her class’ graduation program. Pollard includes photographs (originals and photocopies) of her herself, friends and classmates in uniform and in and around...

Dates: 1943-1989

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Ruth Terry Preston Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0238

Scope and Contents

Genealogical research on the Terry family

Dates: -

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Mary (Mollie) Evelyn Moore Davis Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: A-0098

Scope and Contents The Mollie Moore Davis Scrapbook contains a series of newspaper articles written shortly after her arrival in New Orleans and originally published in the Picayune under the series title "Keren-happuch and I." She describes the streets, shops, churches, and points of interest of the city as well as the people she encounters and events such as Mardi Gras and Christmas. The scrapbook was compiled by the author for a friend, A. H. Wilkins, who was a schoolbook...

Dates: 1885; Event: Donated in 1944

Found in: East Texas Research Center

William R. Davis Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0047

Scope and Contents The main document in this collection is an unpublished manuscript by William R. Davis entitled "The Foundation of Texas Culture." It traces the development of elementary, high school, black, and college education in Texas from the Republic to the 1950s. The manuscript has chapters on Texas culture (art, music, literature, and folklore) and a bibliography of Texana. The rest of the collection (which were transferred from the SFA Biography Files) consists of several articles, newspaper...

Dates: 1929-1955

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Day Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0234

Scope and Contents

Photographs of mostly Nacogdoches schools and people.

Dates: 1899-1940s; Event: Donated in 2004

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Kelsey Harris Douglass Letters

Collection

Identifier: A-0132

Scope and Contents The collection includes seven letters written by Kelsey H. Douglass to his wife Minerva while he was a member of Congress in Houston. The letters are mostly concerned with getting things done at home during Kelsey's absence. These letters were laminated with the intent of preserving them. Unfortunately the lamination is starting to turn darker in color. There are also two letters from Minerva Douglass' aunt and uncle, Jesse and Mary Childress Benton. One letter was written from Nachitoches,...

Dates: 1837-1840, 1987; Event: Donated in 1988

Found in: East Texas Research Center

William A. Droddy Diary

Collection

Identifier: A-0072

Scope and Contents Droddy’s diary begins on May 17th, 1846 at Little Cow Creek in Jasper (now Newton) County. From there, he goes to muster in Jasper, but having missed the company, fellows them to Bevilport. From there, they take a boat down the Neches River to Beaumont, and from there, they travel to Galveston, Port Isabel, then up the Rio Grande as far north as Camargo. It concludes September 2nd, 1846. The diary relates mainly camp experiences: hunting, gambling, singing, drinking, election of...

Dates: 1823-1891

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Marylois Dunn Papers

Collection

Identifier: A-0106

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of manuscripts; galley proofs; correspondence from editors, friends, and fans; reviews; newspaper clippings; and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1967-1975, 1982

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Easley-Thornton Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: A-0245

Scope and Contents

The majority of the collection consists of both the Easley and Thornton family photos from 1900-1937. A few interesting photos include those of the newly built Canton Court House in 1937. This collection also contains a blank marriage license, personal letters, and postcards.

Dates: 1900-1937; Event: Donated in 2007

Found in: East Texas Research Center

Benjamin Franklin Duren Common Book

Collection

Identifier: A-0189

Scope and Contents

Most of the book contains lyrics to songs and medical remedies of the time. The year listed in the finding aid is the year that it was written in the book by B. F. Duren, with the exception of 1884 and 1889 which was written in by Mollie Duren.

Dates: 1853-1889; Event: Donated in 1995

Found in: East Texas Research Center