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A. Personal & Family Collection

 Record Group
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 378 Collections and/or Records:

Pressler Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0054
Abstract

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

Dates: 1875-1978

Mary Small Fitzgerald Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0055
Abstract

The collection includes correspondence, poems, and biographical and genealogical materials.

Dates: 1924-1979

Henry Parks Garrison Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0057
Abstract Typescripts of correspondence between Garrison and family members during his Confederate military service. Includes material on politics, camp conditions, social life, combat, inflation, and family matters.His letters encompass the years of 1860 to 1863 and relate to his family the details of army life, battles he fought during the Civil War, and the hardships suffered by the Confederate troops. The letters convey his hopes for a quick end to the rebellion and that the...
Dates: 1860-1863

Levi Henderson Ashcroft Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: A-0060
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1835-1855; Event: Donated in 1925; Event: Addendum donated in 1943

Emily Hughes Davis Sexton Diary

 Collection
Identifier: A-0061
Abstract

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

George F. Ingraham Acknowledgement Record

 Collection
Identifier: A-0064
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1914-1918

Hubert Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0058
Dates: 1838-1942; Donated in 1971

Ernest B. Ford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0059
Abstract

This collection includes manuscripts and published sheet music, correspondence, biographical materials, and manuscripts of two novels written by Ford.

Dates: 1937-1977

Edwin W. Gaston, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0048
Abstract

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).

Dates: 1946-1977; Event: Donated in 1977

George F. Ingraham Letter Book

 Collection
Identifier: A-0065
Abstract

Blotter copy of letters relating to Ingraham's duties as County Judge and to personal business.

Dates: 1912-1915

Peyton Forbes Edwards Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: A-0066
Abstract

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.

Dates: circa 1873

Turner Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0153
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1857-1876

Stone Fort Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0154
Abstract

Deeds and other documents relating to the ownership of the Stone Fort and the lot on which it stood in downtown Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1841-1901

Kelsey Harris Douglass Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0132
Abstract 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

Hazen-Moore-Faires Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0133
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1861-1980

Ida Pritchett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0134
Abstract

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

Dates: 1923-1953

William W. Arnett Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: A-0142
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1828-1929; Event: Donated in 1957

Cox-Day Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0143
Abstract

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

Mary Hofmann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0144
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1900-1945

Price-Burrows Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0148
Abstract

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