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Box 2

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Newspaper clippings (25 items), 1942-1959

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings from the 'Daily Sentinel', of Johnnie May Sparks Wyres column "Thinking out Loud"; clippings about topics of historic interest; articles about Old North Church; and clippings concerning members of the Sparks family.

Dates: 1942-1959

Newspaper clippings (17 items), 1952-1959

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings; Old North Church; homecoming program (1959); announcements; list of early pastors; a peg hit, "Old North Church"; essays by Johnnie May Sparks Wyres; and petition by descendants of Isaac Reed to have his body removed to Old North Church cemetery.

Dates: 1952-1959

Advertisement, programs and brochures (7 items), 1940-1956

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Nacogdoches Sanitarium advertisement; program for historical evening at Nacogdoches High School auditorium; invitation to commissioning of the USS Alamo and to presentation of portrait to the Texas Senate; and brochures for Washington-on-the-Brazos, State Capitol building and State Democratic committee.

Dates: 1940-1956

Newspaper clippings and program (7 items), 1955-1956

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings about the Sons of the Republic of Texas and the Knights of San Jacinto; and program of investiture service and dinner for the SRT and the KSJ.

Dates: 1955-1956

Dedications, programs, yearbook and newspaper clippings (34 items), 1951-1957

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Programs for memorial services and dedications of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas; 1951 yearbook of the Anson Jones Chapter, Mt. Pleasant; and newspaper clippings concerning statewide activities of the DRT.

Dates: 1951-1957

Sparks family history correspondence of Johnnie May Sparks Wyres (19 items), 1943-1957

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates: 1943-1957

Genealogical materials of the Sparks family (42 items), 1957-1958

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates: 1957-1958

Sparks family obituary notices and marriage announcements (newspaper clippings, 9 items), 1935-1971

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates: 1935-1971

Photographs (21 items), 1907-1956

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Photographs of some Sparks family members (many unidentified); Nacogdoches postcards of a historical elm tree, the Old Stone Fort and the downtown about period of World War I; and a postcard of the Vernis Fulmer Quartet with Dick Fairchild.

Dates: 1907-1956

Notebooks (3 items)

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

A grocery story ledger with charges to Nacogdoches citizens (1939); a notebook with notations pertaining to Texas land ownership; and a notebook with recipes and formulas for various ailments.

Dates: 1901-1971

Partial manuscript of an unpublished book, 'Love Finds a Way', by Nonie Lelah Jackson (1 item), 1904

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates: 1904

Coin purse of Commercial Guaranty State Bank, Nacogdoches, Texas, containing envelope with a button in it (1 item)

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates: 1901-1971

Newspaper clippings, programs, genelogical information on Sparks family, and information about Nacogdoches, 1901-1971

 Box — Box: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates: 1901-1971