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Box 1

 Container

Contains 435 Results:

Letter from Texas Black Land Mortgage Co. to Mrs. R. W. Gillespie regarding loan interest, 10/1/1903

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 16
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 10/1/1903

Letter from Jno. W. Richardson, Virginia Land Office, with a true copy of 6/21/1784 land grant to Philip Richard Francis Lee, 9/12/1907

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 9/12/1907

Letter from J. F. Battle to A. B. Terry, 11/27/1909

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 18
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 11/27/1909

Inventory of Household Goods, 8/17/1916

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 19
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 8/17/1916

Letter from B. N. Beezley to Annie H. Terry, Mineola, regarding construction of a house, 12/16/1916

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 20
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 12/16/1916

Letter from Dallas Press Brick Co. to Mrs. L. H. Calloway, 10/4/1919

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 21
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 10/4/1919

Letter from Slay, Simon & Smith to C. W. Vickery, 11/15/1919

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 11/15/1919

Mineral Deed in Wood County, Texas from H. L. Lott to Mrs. Annie H. Terry, 5/8/1931

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 23
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 5/8/1931

8.5” x 11” map of landownership in Wood County, Texas, 1942

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1942

Letter to daughter (5 pages)

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1791-2006

Obituaries – John Hodges Drake (1859); Robert T. Flewellen (partial); and Jimmie W. Shelton

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 26
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1791-2006

Newspaper clippings - noting the marriage of Susan Beatty and Dr. Robert Dorsey in 1822; and about John Ross Key

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 27
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1791-2006

Calling card of Mr. Henry Stanbery

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 28
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1791-2006

Note

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 29
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1791-2006

Organizational note for collection

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 30
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1791-2006

25 Envelopes

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19, Item: 31
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1791-2006

Two pages (handwritten transcription) from the Cary family bible

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9, Item: 25
Scope and Contents From the File:

Note: See Bundle 1 for 5/14/1906 Newspaper Obituary of Frances Caroline Flewellen Cary written by J. H. Landers; and an Obituary (handwritten copy) of George Cary

Dates: 1791-2006

Two pages (photocopy) from the Cary family bible (recto); Deed (photocopy) conveying a plantation purchased by J. J. Cary in 1848 to James Thweatt (original in Folder 7) (verso), 10/18/1854 (verso)

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9, Item: 26
Scope and Contents From the File:

Note: See Bundle 1 for 5/14/1906 Newspaper Obituary of Frances Caroline Flewellen Cary written by J. H. Landers; and an Obituary (handwritten copy) of George Cary

Dates: 10/18/1854 (verso)

Family correspondence

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection: While ostensibly a genealogical collection detailing Ellen Landers’s ancestry going back more than 6 generations, the Ellen Landers Collection also offers valuable insight into topics such as the interstate slave trade, antebellum politics in Georgia, the 1856 Democratic National Convention, secession, and 1880s courtship etiquette. The majority of historical documents are correspondence to and from family and friends, but there are also bills and receipts, dance invitations, and one month...
Dates: 1791-2006

James W. Shelton documents

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Note: See Bundle 1 for 6/20/1863 Rusk County, Texas Deed from M. D. Eaton to James W. Shelton; and 7/2/1864 Letter from John James (cotton agent) to James W. Shelton

Dates: 1791-2006