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Box 5

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Business, land and legal papers, and Civil War documents, 1830-1927

 Box — Box: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The McFarland-Russell family papers consist of personal and business correspondence, legal and business papers, Confederacy related items, materials related to the history of Orange, Texas, and a large amount of material of personal and genealogical interest produced and collected by members of these two East Texas families.

Dates: 1830-1927

Correspondence - Matters including bills due for payment; orders for materials; and suits brought (originals, transcriptions, photocopies), 1859-1912

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The McFarland-Russell family papers consist of personal and business correspondence, legal and business papers, Confederacy related items, materials related to the history of Orange, Texas, and a large amount of material of personal and genealogical interest produced and collected by members of these two East Texas families.

Dates: 1859-1912

Business papers - Tax receipts; receipts for newspaper subscriptions, recording fee; freight shipped on a steamer; lists of merchandise bought; McFarland business card; stage departures; New Mexico Military Institute receipts; and doctor's bill, receipt for casket, digging a grave, cement, and sand, and contract for grave marker for Kate McFarland Russell's death (originals and photocopies) , 1856-1927

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The McFarland-Russell family papers consist of personal and business correspondence, legal and business papers, Confederacy related items, materials related to the history of Orange, Texas, and a large amount of material of personal and genealogical interest produced and collected by members of these two East Texas families.

Dates: 1856-1927

Land and legal papers - Oath for mail carriers; estate record for P. P. Henderson; estate sale of Henry B. Force; power-of-attorney from Cecile Russell to R. E. Russell; duties of a chief justice; partnership agreement between T. S. McFarland and S. P. McFarland; and merchant's licensed claim against an estate (originals and photocopies) , 1830-1903

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The McFarland-Russell family papers consist of personal and business correspondence, legal and business papers, Confederacy related items, materials related to the history of Orange, Texas, and a large amount of material of personal and genealogical interest produced and collected by members of these two East Texas families.

Dates: 1830-1903

Civil War - Receipts for payment; directives; correspondence about mail routes; official business correspondence of Confederate postmaster at Orange R. B. Russell; and examples of Confederate Treasury notes and bonds (originals and photocopies), 1861-1864

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The McFarland-Russell family papers consist of personal and business correspondence, legal and business papers, Confederacy related items, materials related to the history of Orange, Texas, and a large amount of material of personal and genealogical interest produced and collected by members of these two East Texas families.

Dates: 1861-1864