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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:

Frank P. Hathcock Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0346
Content Description The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by Frank P. Hathcock.While each of Frank’s letters contains unique details or observations, they also convey principal themes born from his wartime service. Some are tied to his hopes for a productive life after the war, many recall the pleasures of home, others are anchored in his daily experiences, and a few capture his thoughts for lasting peace to overcome causes of global conflict.Frank never ended a letter...
Dates: 1942-1945

Berry Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0344
Content Description

Most of the collection centers around the 1951 Army Security Agency ROTC Summer Camp. Vernon was an editor on the pictorial book created to document their expereinces. Many of the photographs have detailed descriptions on the back, including ones that were not added to the book.

Dates: 1899-1956

D.A. Orviss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0345
Content Description

Most of the collection are letters about his business, there are two letters from his cousin Harriet Ellen Shawn living in Maine.

Dates: 1856-1880

Val Henry Sharp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0347
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of three items, a 1917 “Exemption from Service” certificate, a drawing of a dogtrot house, and a Harris county “Abstract for Title”.

Dates: 1912-1917

Jewel and Josie Pack Atkinson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0348
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1873-1963

R. A. Ewing Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0349
Content Description

Cherokee Co. records pertaining to R. A. Ewing: deeds and land papers related to Ironton, heirship affidavits, Ewing family genealogy, information on Boggy Creek and Carey Lake, and an oversize map of north part of the county

Dates: Event: Donated 5/23/2019; 1878-1958

Frank La Forge Sheet Music

 Collection
Identifier: A-0350
Content Description

1 piece of sheet music "Souvenir de Vienne”

Dates: 1911

Mary Clark Recipe

 Collection
Identifier: A-0353
Scope and Contents

One recipe for eascakes.

Dates: 1880-1940

Jesse D. Mixon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0354
Content Description

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

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

Joel C. and Alice A. Ford Crain Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0355
Scope and Contents

The collection contains five photographs from the 1920s of Caddo Lake General Store, J. C. Crain Grocery & Market, and Johnson Brothers Ranch. Postcard of T & P Hospital in Marshall, Texas. Nacogdoches, Texas Fredonia Hotel, postcard, newspaper clipping and advertisement.

Dates: Event: Donated 8/15/2017; 1920-1961

Von Bibber's Rock poem

 Collection
Identifier: A-0356
Scope and Contents

The collection is one poem.

Dates: 1892

R. B. Martin World War II Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0357
Content Description

The bulk of the collection are letters that Roy Martin wrote to Pat Justice (Salena Justice) in 1943.

Dates: 1943-1946; Event: Donated 9/20/2011

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

Summers Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0359
Content Description

The collection is mostly deed records and ledgers for rent and cash. Of interest is some WWI photographs and menus from the steamship Abangarez.

Dates: 1860-1988; Event: Donated 1/13/2020

Davidson Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0360
Scope and Contents

The collection mostly consist of genealogical information on the Davidson and allied families.

Dates: Event: Donated 1/18/2017

Turlington Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0362
Content Description

Family photographs, baby books, teaching certificates, letters, particularly re: Marguerite Pierce Turlington, Margaret Elma Turlington Randolph (sister-in-law) and William West Randolph (nephew); receipts from Rusk Co. businesses; papers on the organization and management of the Harmony Hill Cemetery Association; invoices and checks for Marguerite P. Turlington's donations to the First Baptist Church of Tatum; and royalty checks and estate planning documents for Marguerite P. Turlington.

Dates: Event: Donated 10/18/2018; 1861-1998

Russell F. "Jack" Moore and Eva Simpson Moore Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0363
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of five series Cherokee County Historical Commission files on hisotrical markers and correspondence, research files on various topics, material from schools Jack worked at, personal material, and material from Dr. J.W. Moore.

Dates: Event: Donated 10/21/2020; 1851-1999

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

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

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