T. Gillette Tilford Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection includes essays, pamphlets, two speeches, and three scrapbooks containing Tilford's "Out of My Mind" columns written for the Sunday Sentinel,1979-1981.
Dates
- Creation: 1957-1983
Language of Materials
The collection is in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
Biographical or Historical Information
T. Gillette Tilford, son of Tilden and Rowena Mettenheimer Tilford, was born July 2, 1902, in Houston, Texas. Tilford was married to Jewel Norwood Tilford, who died in 1983. For a number of years, Tilford wrote a column for the Sunday Sentinel entitled "Out of My Mind." He was the first president of the Bonita Grocery Company and owned the Nacogdoches County Lumber Company. He was also a member of the Mensa Society. Tilford died in Nacogdoches on August 15, 1989.
(Obituary, "Gillette T. Tilford." Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel 16 August 1989, p. A6).
Extent
0.50 Cubic Feet
Arrangement
This collection is described in three folders and three bound scrapbooks housed in a clamshell box.
Subject
- Title
- Guide to the T. Gillette Tilford Collection
- Author
- Natasha McClanahan
- Date
- 1992
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the East Texas Research Center Repository