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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:

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

East Texas Railroads and Locomotives Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0080
Scope and Contents A collection of materials compiled from various sources concerning many of the railroad lines which have operated in East Texas. Included in the collection are an original first mortgage bond of the Houston East and West Texas Railway Company, the Articles of Incorporation of the Red River, Sabine and Western Railway Company, a subscription list for a proposed line of the Texas and New Orleans Railway Company through Nacogdoches, correspondence relating to the history of the Moscow, Camden...
Dates: 1853-1985

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

Ernest B. Ford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0059
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1937-1977

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

John (Jack) A. Forman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0125
Scope and Contents This collection contains a 37-page typescript narrative by Jack Forman of his World War II memories, papers and certificates providing a record of his military service, and documents which trace the 17-month march through Europe of his unit, Battery "A" of the 110th Gun Battalion. There are 200 photos and a number of negatives of war scenes in Europe, as well as a 48-star U. S. flag, foreign currency, and some war maps. The collection is missing four photographs, one...
Dates: 1910-2000

Joseph E. Mayfield Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0088
Scope and Contents

Chiefly the writings of the physician and Civil War veteran of Nacogdoches on various aspects of the early history of Nacogdoches, most of which were published in his column "Nacogdoches Traditions" in the Daily Sentinel.

Dates: 1921-1924

Ardath Mayhar Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0100
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of manuscripts, galley proofs, and correspondence with publishers, editors, and writers, including most notably science fiction/fantasy writer, Andre Norton. Ardath recycles scrap paper from various sources in her work.

Dates: 1955-1999

Archie P. McDonald Research Collection on Freemasonry

 Collection
Identifier: A-0077
Scope and Contents

This collection represents some of the materials used in the research for 'By Early Candlelight' and includes notes, articles and pamphlets on freemasonry in Texas, the United States, and abroad and Dr. McDonald's original typescript for his book.

Dates: Event: Manuscript donated circa 1966; Event: Pamphlets donated 7/24/1969

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

Archie P. McDonald Manuscript of Adolphus Sterne Diary, 1838-1851

 Collection
Identifier: A-0109
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of McDonald's draft manuscript, including chapter notes, to HURRAH FOR TEXAS! THE DIARY OF ADOLPHUS STERNE 1838-1851, published by Texian Press in 1969. The manuscript does not include the index or bibliography printed in the published version.

Dates: c.1968

McPhail-Hartgraves Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0029
Scope and Contents

Collection contains genealogical research mostly pertaining to the Earnest, Gaston, Hamilton, and Killion families. Includes Bible owned by Mary V. Hartgraves Bible.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1968-1994

Gladys Hardeman Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0069
Scope and Contents "The First Oil Well in Texas and the Southwest" gives an account of the drilling at Oil Springs by Lyne Taliaferro Barret in 1866. The paper includes a description of the drilling techniques and tells of negotiations for financial backing. "Peter Ellis Bean--Man with a Story" is a biographical sketch of Bean. "The History of Melrose" gives family histories of the Hardeman, Mast, Walling, Hall, and other families residing...
Dates: Event: Donated between 1957-1965

Benjamin Rush Milam Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: A-0084
Scope and Contents

Copy of an unpublished typescript manuscript by Mrs. M. B. Milam which consists of materials relating to Benjamin Rush Milam. Included is a memorial address to the Texas Legislature by James Milam, a biographical sketch by Dr. C. C. Graham, extracts from published works, and genealogical information on the Milam family.

Dates: Event: Donated 9/1/1945

Gregory Townsend Bedell Moore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0129
Scope and Contents SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF GREGORY BEDELL MOORE, compiled by Mrs. Bedell Moore [his daughter-in-law?] consists of photocopies of two volumes of handwritten narratives with photographs, clippings, and church programs interspersed. The volumes contain information about Moore's family, businesses, activities in the Episcopal Church, and philanthropic organizations. The volume HENRY J. LUTCHER AND G. BEDELL MOORE'S TRIP TO TEXAS 1877 contains details of their journey from Williamsport, PA...
Dates: Event: Donated 3/18/1983; Event: Addendum donated 5/5/1987

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

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

Gribble Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0264
Dates: 1870-1989

Thad Sitton Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0268
Dates: 1931-1985

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