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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 376 Collections and/or Records:

Richard S. Orton Collection

 File
Identifier: A-0369
Abstract 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

Jesse D. Mixon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0354
Abstract

World War 1 and World War 2 maps and a World War 1 roster book.

Dates: Event: Donated 4/22/2013; 1919-1945

Lelia Berryman Crain Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0276
Dates: 1860-1924; Event: Donated 10/4/2011; Event: Addendum donated 2/19/2020

Jewel and Josie Pack Atkinson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0348
Abstract

The majority of the collection are letters, postcards, and photographs associated with Josie Pack Wilson Atkinson.

Dates: 1873-1963

Shady Grove Community

 Collection
Identifier: A-0338
Abstract

The collection contains two photographs of the Shady Grove school, one Woodman of the World Camp record book from 1930, and one directory of names and phone numbers from the 1950s.

Dates: 1900s-1950s

Robbie Choate Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0358
Abstract

The collection consists of one Nacogdoches High School Scrapbook, letters and some educational related material.

Dates: 1929-1933; Event: Donated 1/13/2020

Stephen W. Blount Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0260
Dates: 1831-1908

Lenvill B. Martin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0283
Abstract

This collection consists of minutes, programs, maps, and photographs pertaining to Nacogdoches County schools in the mid twentieth-century. There are also promissory notes, tax receipts, deeds, and receipt books for Lenvill B. Martin and his ancestors.

Dates: Event: Donated 8/9/2011

Lois Foster Blount Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0107
Abstract The Lois Foster Blount Papers consist primarily of historical research materials documenting early Texas history, the Texas Revolution, and the Republic of Texas, with a significant focus on Thomas J. Rusk. The collection includes correspondence, genealogical and biographical research files, notes from manuscript and published sources, translations and calendars of archival records, legal and land documents, and manuscripts of historical writings and pageants. Subjects represented include...
Dates: 1923 - 1982; Event: Donated in 1982

Denard Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0314
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of photographs from the turn of the 20th century, but also includes death notices and correspondence.

Dates: Event: Donated 8/25/2016

Williams Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0339
Abstract

The bulk of the collection is genealogical information on the Williams and Bickley families. The Journal has an autobiography written by S. R. Williams along with biographical information about members of his family.

Dates: 1900-1981

Ingraham-Tucker Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0330
Content Description

The bulk of the collection consists of letters between Francis H. Tucker ("Hal") and his wife Elcee Rosina Ingraham Tucker ("Rosa"); and Ingraham family land records and tax statements for property in Angelina and Cherokee counties. There are also a few letters from family, friends, and business associates. Other materials in the collection include telegrams, wedding invitations, and a locket of Rosa Tucker's hair in one of her letters to her husband.

Dates: 1887-1935

James D. Strickland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0379
Abstract

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

Flores-Patterson Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0335
Abstract

Photographs (18); postcards (12); funeral notice and obituary of Fred W. Harlacher; and genealogical research (photocopies of pedigree charts, family trees, notes, and photographs) on the Flores and Patterson families

Dates: 1910-1943

Paul Overall WWII Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0226
Abstract

The collection consists of the photographs taken by Overall from the liberation of a World War II concentration camp and his honorable discharge certificate.

Dates: 1946; Event: Donated 9/21/1992

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

Madison G. Whitaker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0045
Abstract

Included in these papers are deeds, survey plats, indentures, field notes, land grants, receipts, promissory notes, a limited amount of personal and business correspondence, and estate papers of Madison G. Whitaker. Also included are some genealogical materials on the Fitts and Whitaker families.

Dates: 1839-1915

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

World War 1 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0381
Dates: Event: Donated 3/29/2023; circa 1919

A. H. Rowell Sr. Family Documents

 Collection
Identifier: A-0385
Abstract

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