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A. Personal & Family Collection

 Record Group
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 378 Collections and/or Records:

Elizabeth Brown Ebaugh Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0364
Content Description

Research material on Jacksonville and Cherokee County, Texas

Dates: Event: Donated 10/21/2020; 1890-1969
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Richard and Ruth Muckelroy Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0365
Content Description

Letters, photographs, postcards, military manuals, masonic booklets, cookbooks, and other ephemera.

Dates: Event: Donated 8/8/2016 by the First United Methodist Church of Nacogdoches; 1921-2002
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Smelley-Whitmire Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0366
Content Description

Fox hunting information and genealogy books

Dates: Event: Addendum donated 8/19/2014; 1953-2010
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Richard S. Orton Collection

 File
Identifier: A-0369
Scope and Contents The Richard S. Orton Collection consists of the photographs from two exhibits created by Orton and a series of 16 oral history interviews about African Americans in Nacogdoches County. The photographs capture authentic interactions between teachers and school children at several schools in Austin (1986-1990) and scenes of faith, family and life at Upshaw family reunions at County Line, an African American freedom colony in Nacogdoches County (1988-1998). The exhibit label text which appeared...
Dates: Event: Donated 10/9/2008
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Grimes-Koonce Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0371
Content Description

The bulk of the collection consists of family photographs and funeral books.

Dates: Event: Donated 10/23/2020
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Emeline Risinger and Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0367
Content Description

Family materials for the Smelley, Whitmire, Swink, and Risinger families, including letters, postcards, photographs, negatives, and genealogical research.

Dates: Donated 4/26/2019
Found in: East Texas Research Center

N. Campbell Cox Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-372
Content Description

Scrapbooks, post cards and photographs

Dates: Event: Donated 7/26/2012
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Cox Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0388
Scope and Contents The Cox Family Collection offers an insight into the city of Nacogdoches from 1895 to 2021.The Navarro Cox Tire Co. is featured prominently in the collection through photographs and annotations written on the back that detail the history of the company. Peggy Cox’s correspondence provides the history of historic sites around Nacogdoches such as the restoration of the Durst-Taylor House and the construction of “The Treaty” statue. Nacogdoches civic organizations documented in the collection...
Dates: Event: Donated 6/30/2025
Found in: East Texas Research Center

The D. L. and Rosa Hancock Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0375
Content Description

World War 1 letters, house ledger, and clothing associated with D. L. Hancock and Rosa Peterson.

Dates: Event: Donated 8/3/2021; 1918-2021
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Hardy Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0373
Content Description

The collection contains 1954 letters from Charles Hardy to his wife Joyce, 1960's letters from Agnes Campbell (Joyce's step-mother) to Joyce, photographs of Charles Hardy's family, and biographical materials on Charles and Joyce Campbell Hardy.

Dates: Event: Donated 6/7/2021
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Charles Truett and Patsy Wainwright Parrish Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0378
Content Description

This collection consist of correspondence from family and friends to Patsy as well as her husband and children. It also contains christmas cards, wedding invites and mulitple thank you cards to the family. It contains photos, art work and school work from her children and students Patsy had over the years. The collection also consist of many miscellaneous momentos she has collected during her lifetime.

Dates: 1963-1990; Event: Donated 2014
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Hamilton and Mary Nichols Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0376
Content Description The collection consists of a letter written by Mary Louise Fant concerning a pamphlet about racial integration by one T. G. Tilford, a magnetic record disc with unkown audio, several pieces of World War One memorabilia including position maps, a regiment book, a souvenir folder. and a song booklet. There are also forty-eight postcards addressed to various people, two postcard books from France, seven tintype photographs, two large photographs, and twelve World War One souvenir photographs....
Dates: Event: Donate 10/25/2021; 1899-1963
Found in: East Texas Research Center

Marvin T. Powers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0374
Dates: Donated 4/26/2021
Found in: East Texas Research Center

James D. Strickland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0379
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of folders containing memorabilia from James Strickland while he was in the navy.

Dates: Event: Donated 10/18/2021 ; Event: 1938-1959
Found in: East Texas Research Center

World War 1 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0381
Dates: Event: Donated 3/29/2023; circa 1919
Found in: East Texas Research Center

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

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