A. Personal & Family Collection
Classification
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:
James Taylor Lacey Acknowledgement Books
Collection
Identifier: A-0067
Scope and Contents
The James Taylor Lacey Acknowledgement Books consists of three volumes of personal papers documenting Lacey’s work as a notary public in Rusk County, Texas, ranging from the years 1899 to 1939. The collection primarily contains records of notary acknowledgments relating to land transactions, deeds, powers of attorney, oil and gas leases, and vendor releases. This collection provides insight into the legal and administrative role Lacey filled in his daily life.
Dates:
1899-1933
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Clarence P. Harris Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: A-0244
Scope and Contents
The collection contains papers, letters and medical diplomas belonging to Clarence P. Harris and his family.
Dates:
Event: Donated 11/19/2007
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Cora Mast Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0182
Scope and Contents
The Cora Mast Research Collection provides researchers with four items. Folder 1 contains two letters, one written by Cora Mast to her sister Leona Mast on September 9, 1905, and one to her brother Oscar Mast on October 17, 1894, a poem written by Cora Mast, and a marriage certificate between Kit Patton and Cora Mast, January 9th, 1887. Researchers interested in Cora Mast, her husband, Kit Patton, or her brother Oscar Mast and her sister Leona Mast will find this collection potentially...
Dates:
1887, 1894, 1905
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
World War 1, 169th Aero Squadron Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0224
Scope and Contents
History of the unit, original roster and reunion materials.
Dates:
1918-1976; Event: Donated 8/29/1996
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
Thomas E. Broughton Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0361
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of one specialty made leather bound album. The title page is inscribed with “Dedicated to our Dear Commander 1st Ltn. Thomas E. Broughton in kind remembrance. Officers and guards of the 8599 Lab. Serv. Co.” Pins inside the album include a Kotwica and other Polish military pins.
Dates:
Event: Donated 4/4/2016
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Cheryl Keneaster Nelson Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0324
Scope and Contents
The Cheryl Keneaster Nelson Collection offers an insight into music that was popular in the first half Twentieth Century in America, specifically in Texas and the area around Houston, via a collection of piano sheet music published in America between 1909 and 1976. (Very few pieces after the mid-fifties.) Music styles represented are varied, including a number of romantic ballads, ragtime and blues, patriotic songs, novelty pieces, and a wide variety of dance pieces such as waltzes and...
Dates:
1909-1984
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
Nettie E. Marshall Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0352
Scope and Contents
The Nettie E. Marshall Collections offer insight into the personal life of retired school teacher Nettie E. Marshall shortly after the death of her husband Frank P. Marshall. The collection features a photograph of Nettie E. Marshall and a Texas Teacher’s Daily Register from Mrs. Marshall’s classroom from the academic year 1918-1919 where she took role daily. The collection also features a photograph of Nettie E. Marshall and husband Frank P. Marshall alongside his obituary publicizing his...
Dates:
Event: Donated September 2015
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Laney Garrett Reed Letters
Collection
Identifier: A-0211
Scope and Contents
The Laney Garrett Reed Letters Collection offers an insight into the life of a U.S. WWII soldier stationed across France and Germany in 1945. The letters featured in the collection are correspondence between Laney Garret Reed, U.S. soldier, and his mother Ruby Alice Miller Reed. Laney Garret Reed’s correspondence provides insight into the compensation, housing, and duties of a WWII soldier in 1945. Reed was stationed in Normandy and Marseille, France and Wiensbaden, near Frankfurt, and...
Dates:
1945
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Helen Elizabeth Ames Coulter Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0325
Scope and Contents
The Helen Elizabeth Ames Coulter Collection offers an insight into music that was popular in the first half Twentieth Century in America, via a collection of piano sheet music published in America between 1890 and 1960. Music styles represented are varied, including a number of romantic ballads ,marches, and a wide variety of dance pieces such as waltzes and foxtrots. The years around The World Wars are well represented with a variety of patriotic pieces. Particularly well represented are...
Dates:
1910-1970
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
Robbie Choate Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0358
Content Description
The collection consists of one Nacogdoches High School Scrapbook, letters and some educational related material.
Dates:
1929-1933; Event: Donated 1/13/2020
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
Gerron S. Hite Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0377
Content Description
The Gerron S. Hite Collection provides researchers with three boxes and one oversized container with material pertaining to cemeteries, mostly in Texas. Box one contains a collection of cemetery related material requests, monument bill of sale, headstone contracts, documents, field notes, and deeds from various Texas cemeteries dated 1893 to 1929. This material would be useful for researchers interested in the contracts and processes of internment in the late 18th to early 19th century. Box...
Dates:
Donated 7/16/2021
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
William Hall Price Letters
Collection
Identifier: A-0190
Scope and Contents
The William Hall Price Letters collection features one box with three folders. This collection features family correspondences from the Price family spanning from 1871 to 1904. Folder one contains family letters from 1860 to 1869 featuring communications featuring the following individuals: Eliza T. Hall, Kate G. Foster, A.G. Price, W.H. Thacker, Elijah Price, and Sue Smith. Folder two contains family letters from 1871 to 1899 featuring various communications featuring the following...
Dates:
1860-1904
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
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
Parks-Whitehead Collection
Collection
Identifier: A-0297
Scope and Contents
The Parks-Whitehead Collection is a very small collection and consists of four folders. Folder 1 has six postcards featuring scenes from various cities across the United States, including San Antonio, Texas, Kansas City, Missouri, Topeka, Kansas, and Chicago, Illinois. One simply reads “All Good Wishes” and another, “Easter Greetings.” Folder 2 has a total of four letters to Leonard Whitehead, two (1946 and 1947) from his brother in law Joseph Farr Parks, one (1944) from his brother in law...
Dates:
1890-1947
Found in:
East Texas Research Center