Charles Brightwell Collection
Scope and Contents
The materials in this collection consist of business receipts for the sale of cotton bales, several religious publications, World War 2 ration books, and minutes from two Primitive Baptist Association meetings.
Dates
- Creation: 1893-1940s
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research.
Full Extent
0.05 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection consists of papers collected across three generations of the Brightwell family from 1890 to 1942. Items include church minutes from the 1890s, cotton seed receipts purchased in Longview, Texas, four World War II ration books from Walter Jesse Brightwell’s household, and a ledger page from William Peter Brightwell in 1902.
Arrangement
This colletion consists of 28 items described in one folder and housed with other collections in a clamshell box.
Bibliography
Charles Wilson Brightwell, United States Census 1860, FamilySearch [subscription database] Online at: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YYF-3SGY?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AKZXT-W2D&cc=1968530&lang=en (accessed July 1, 20260.
Walter Jessie Brightwell, Draft Registrations, FamilySearch [subscription database], Online at: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9YYF-3SGY?view=index&personArk=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AKZXT-W2D&cc=1968530&lang=en (accessed July 1, 2026).
- Title
- Guide to the Charles Brightwell Collection
- Author
- Hannah Bledsoe
- Date
- 2026
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the East Texas Research Center Repository
