A. Personal & Family Collection
Found in 378 Collections and/or Records:
Pressler Family Papers
The collection includes correspondence, tax receipts, bills, and genealogical materials.
Mary Small Fitzgerald Papers
The collection includes correspondence, poems, and biographical and genealogical materials.
Henry Parks Garrison Letters
Levi Henderson Ashcroft Reminiscences
This collection contains the reminiscences of Levi Ashcroft (Ashcraft) concerning life in Louisiana and East Texas from 1838 to 1855, focusing on the Regulator-Moderator War and the lawlessness that plagued the Neutral Ground and Shelby County. Ashcroft recounts the rise and fall of key figures, including Charles W. Jackson and Charles Watt Moorman, the intervention of Sam Houston and the Texas militia, and the eventual restoration of peace in the region.
Emily Hughes Davis Sexton Diary
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
George F. Ingraham Acknowledgement Record
Record of acknowledgments taken by Ingraham, notary public of Nacogdoches County. Shows number, kind and date of instrument, description and location of land, name of original grantee, name and residence of grantor and similar information.
Ernest B. Ford Papers
This collection includes manuscripts and published sheet music, correspondence, biographical materials, and manuscripts of two novels written by Ford.
Edwin W. Gaston, Jr. Papers
This collection consists of correspondence with publishers, biographical material, reviews, newspaper clippings, and galley proofs relating to Gaston's books: The Early Novel of the Southwest (1961), Conrad Richter (1965), and Eugene Manlove Rhodes: Cowboy Chronicler (1967).
George F. Ingraham Letter Book
Blotter copy of letters relating to Ingraham's duties as County Judge and to personal business.
Peyton Forbes Edwards Ledger
Stamped "General Index - Peyton F. Edwards" the ledger serves as an index to Dockets D and E of an unidentified record of judgments. The names included in the index are those of Nacogdoches residents of the period.
Turner Family Papers
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.
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.
Kelsey Harris Douglass Letters
Hazen-Moore-Faires Family Papers
The collection consists of one Civil War letter; correspondence, mostly from Dillard B. Hazen during World War I, including post cards; mostly unidentified photographs and tintypes; newspaper clippings; poll tax receipts; and World War I buttons and mementos. Photocopies of obituaries and cemetery records have been added to help identify family members.
Ida Pritchett Papers
This collection includes programs, photographs, newspaper clippings on SFA and local musical events, and original hand-drawn and printed artwork.
William W. Arnett Reminiscences
These reminiscences are of people and events encountered during Arnett's early years and travels to and in Texas and his life there until 1848. At the end of the volume are some typescripts of letters written in 1879 and 1880 and genealogical material.
Cox-Day Family Papers
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).
Mary Hofmann Papers
The papers include letters to Mary Hofmann concerning her work, a climatological data sheet from 1941, Mary Hofmann's certificate of authority allowing her to make the meteorological reports, and the meteorological records for each month of the years 1900-1944. H. H. Cooper served as weather observer from 1900 to mid-1903 when Mary took over the job.
Price-Burrows Family Papers
The collection consists of photocopies of documents relating to Nacogdoches County land holdings of the Price and Burrows families. Folder 7 is orginal material.

