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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:

J. E. Ray Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0270
Abstract

The main item in this collection is a 15-page scrapbook given to Mrs. James Oscar Ray and H. T. Muckleroy by Aldrich Nelson Walker. The scrapbook contains photographs from the 1920s of family members, friends, and old Nacogdoches, including but not limited to: Stone's Mill, Christ Church, local schools, Arnold Street, Main Street Pharmacy, a Tyler Fire Truck, Main Street, Scouting, and Y.M.C.A. Small Gymnasium. Also in this collection are a photograph of James Oscar Ray and an old check.

Dates: 1920-1930

Lita Mayberry Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0259
Abstract The collection includes photographs collected during Mrs. Lita Mayberry's years as a school teacher and of her family life. Many of the earlier pictures are in the form of postcards. Subjects include students, family, and friends, many of whom are unnamed. Mayberry taught at least at Centerville, Hudson Grade, Hudson Elementary, Herty School, East Ward School, and Kurth Elementary School. In looking at the series of photographs, one sees the progression of time in clothing, quality of...
Dates: 1912-1961; Event: Donated in 2009

Ruth Terry Preston Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0238
Abstract

Genealogical research on the Terry family

Dates: -

Thomas E. Broughton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0361
Abstract

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

Atkinson-Fall Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0333
Abstract

This collection consists of materials from the Atkinson and Fall families of Chireno, Texas. The bulk of the materials are land records (deeds, deeds of trust and warranty deeds), but there are also some business receipts, tax receipts, and a poem.

Dates: Event: Donated 7/16/2019; 1849-1917

Stockwell Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0214
Abstract

This collection consists of three World War II ration booklets from Harrison Lee Stockwell Sr. and Harrison Lee Stockwell Jr. In addition, there are two newsletters from the Women’s army Corps in Nacogdoches, Texas and the Army Air Corps at Myitkyina in Burma detailing musical performances and international headlines.

Dates: 1942-1945

Loftin-Brooks Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0322
Scope and Contents These documents note the progression of land sales within one family from the time of the mid-1820s under the Mexican Government, to the Republic of Texas, the State of Texas, through to World War I. This collection provides an overview about the value and social status of owning land and the careful recording of the land sales in county records. Prominent Texas personages include Peter Ellis Bean, Henry Raguet, Thomas Rusk, Hayden H. Edwards, and Jose Mariana Acosta, governor of Coahuila...
Dates: Event: Donated 2/13/2018

Marigold Creamery Records

 Collection
Identifier: A-0193
Abstract

An account ledger for Nacogdoches business Marigold Creamery and a Nacogdoches County Resolution honoring H. H. Cooper.

Dates: 1913-1917, 1934

William Felix Gigliotti Railroad Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: A-0014
Abstract

Abstract: The William Felix Gigliotti Railroad Scrapbooks consist of 20 scrapbooks compiled by William Felix Gigliotti (1893–1958), containing newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and other materials documenting railroads in the United States and Canada. The collection provides valuable information on twentieth-century railroad operations, transportation history, and public interest in the rail industry.

Dates: 1893-1958

John Forbes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0063
Abstract

The collection contains legal papers, correspondence, business papers, Republic of Texas Army Commissary Records, and biographical and genealogical material on Forbes. There is a transcript of the David G. Burnet treason trial and papers relating to Sam Houston, David Crockett, and Andrew Jackson.

See Separated Materials for two volumes of transcripts of the Forbes vs. Labadie trial that include detailed testimony on the Battle of San Jacinto.

Dates: 1836-1963

Herrera Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0015
Abstract

The Herrera Family Papers document the history of a longstanding Hispanic family in Nacogdoches County, Texas, from the nineteenth through the twentieth century. Materials include an original 1871 land grant signed by Governor Richard B. Hubbard, deeds, photographs, account books, and family records that trace the Herrera family's land ownership, community connections, and multigenerational presence in East Texas.

Dates: 1877-1965

Haden Edwards Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0037
Abstract

These papers are a collection from several sources. Part of them were given to the ETRC by the Old Stone Fort, others were found among the Nacogdoches County Court House Records, and the rest were already a part of the East Texas Research Center's vertical file collection. They have been combined so that they will be in a more useable and convenient form.

Dates: 1831-1969

Charles S. Taylor Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0031
Abstract

Correspondence, invoices, tax receipts, field notes, deeds, powers of attorney, and other legal documents, Confederate warrants, notes, and orders for food to be supplied to Confederate soldiers' families, and genealogical material on the Taylor and Ruoff (Ruff, Roff) families of Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1810-1930

Holloway Lee Power Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0093
Abstract

The collection contains agricultural, mathematical, and personal notes; religious meditations; correspondence; and a few legal and business papers. There are also some papers of one of Power's sons, Holloway Bunyan Power, born in 1834 in Alabama. He also was a farmer, and upon his father's death on November 6, 1866, he succeeded him as a preacher for Bethany Baptist Church. Some of the records of the church are included with this collection.

Dates: 1842-1978

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

Francis Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0049
Abstract

Original letters; autobiographical, religious and creative writing manuscripts; business and legal documents of Francis Wilson and other Wilson family members.

Dates: 1839-1935

Henson-Harlacher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0295
Abstract

The bulk of this collection consists of two accounting ledgers and invoices for Henson and Harlacher, Draymen; and Fred W. Harlacher, Grading and Heavy Hauling. The collection also includes family photographs and correspondence.

Dates: 1888-1959

Orton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0023
Abstract

The letters and business papers included in the Orton Family Papers concern mostly the Sidney Maury Orton family. In addition, many letters concern the Mt. Enterprise Male and Female Academy, where Sidney and Louisa's children attended school. Many of the letters in the collection have typed transcripts.

Dates: 1833-1889

Marylois Dunn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0106
Abstract

The collection consists of manuscripts; galley proofs; correspondence from editors, friends, and fans; reviews; newspaper clippings; and other memorabilia.

Dates: 1967-1975, 1982

Emma Haltom Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: A-0199
Abstract

The scrapbook is predominantly poetry and short stories clipped from the 'The Henderson Times' around the turn of the century (1890s-1900s). The newspaper clippings are glued onto an older 1880-1881 account book.

Dates: 1880-1881