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Collection
Identifier: A-0171
Scope and Contents
The papers in this collection consist of original documents and letters and other materials collected and produced by Jimmie Willis Hanks (granddaughter of J. T. Bogard) of Center, Texas and Irene Bogard Winton of Beaumont, Texas, while working on family history. Family lines researched include those of Hanks, Bogard, Burleson, Miller, Hartsfield, Barfield, and Shipp. There is a small amount of material on the Key and Hyde families. Mrs. Hanks incorporated the files of Mrs. Winton into hers...
Dates:
1774-1900; Event: Donated in 1995
Collection
Identifier: A-0271
Scope and Contents
The collection contains family photographs, legal documents, store ledgers and scrapbooks.
Dates:
Event: Donated 11/11/2010
Collection
Identifier: A-0168
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of original documents and research materials collected by Mary Martha Hackney on the Ingraham family of Nacogdoches County, the Blount family of San Augustine County, the Gough family, and other families connected to them, including the B. F. Prices, Landons and Tuckers. The collection contains photocopies, carbons, typescripts, and original manuscript materials.
Dates:
1763-1994
Collection
Identifier: A-0273
Scope and Contents
The research collection has a wide range of materials--correspondence, maps, negatives, photographic prints, pedigree charts, research for Sanders’s publications, as well as a few of those publications—concerning the families and places of East Texas. The majority of negatives and prints are photographs of other photographs or documents. Several prints, especially those of a 1928 lynching at the Center Courthouse, are particularly graphic.
There are several oversize documents in the...
Dates:
1833-1978
Collection
Identifier: A-0036
Scope and Contents
Day books, account books and bills from J. M. Cartwright's store in Nat, Texas from which he peddled into other East Texas towns. Also includes tax receipts, correspondence, and business advertisements, genealogical material concerning Lewis, Campbell and Radley families. The bulk of the collection covers the period of the 1870s through the 1890s.
Dates:
1858-1931; Event: Donated in 1978
Collection
Identifier: A-0085
Scope and Contents
Typescript of the diary (actually reminiscences) of the Nacogdoches native's experiences in the Civil War and later as a sheep rancher in Laredo, Texas (1841-1908). Genealogical data on the Kirkpatrick family is also included.
Dates:
1908
Collection
Identifier: A-0116
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of typescript copies of Civil War letters between John C. Birdwell and wife Adaline Birdwell. A farmer, John Birdwell included instructions for running the farm in his absence. Her letters report the progress of crops and livestock. Both recount their hardships during the war as well as news of family and friends. John C. Birdwell describes Confederate camp conditions depicting disease epidemics, food, music, gambling, funerals, weather, and ragged condition of the...
Dates:
1862; Event: Donated in 1960
Collection
Identifier: A-0063
Scope and Contents
The collection contains legal papers, correspondence, business papers, Republic of Texas Army Commissary Records, and biographical and genealogical material on Forbes. There is a transcript of the David G. Burnet treason trial and papers relating to Sam Houston, David Crockett, and Andrew Jackson.
See Separated Materials for two volumes of transcripts of the Forbes vs. Labadie trial that include detailed testimony on the Battle of San...
Dates:
1836-1963
Collection
Identifier: A-0276
Dates:
1860-1924; Event: Donated 10/4/2011; Event: Addendum donated 2/19/2020
Collection
Identifier: A-0107
Scope and Contents
The Lois Foster Blount Papers consist mostly of historical research materials with an emphasis on early Texas history, the Texas Revolution, and the Republic of Texas. About a fourth of the collection pertains to Thomas J. Rusk. Included are correspondence, biographical and genealogical materials, notes and excerpts from manuscript and printed sources, calendars and translations of some Bexar and Nacogdoches Archives. Also included are copies of legal papers and land papers, manuscripts of...
Dates:
221 BCE-1980; Event: Donated in 1982
Collection
Identifier: A-0045
Scope and Contents
Included in these papers are deeds, survey plats, indentures, field notes, land grants, receipts, promissory notes, a limited amount of personal and business correspondence, and estate papers of Madison G. Whitaker. Also included are some genealogical materials on the Fitts and Whitaker families.
Dates:
1839-1915
Collection
Identifier: A-0090
Scope and Contents
The reminiscence are broken up into short half-page to a page entries and poems about Mrs. Boone's life. This volume is a photocopy made in 1967 from the family copy in possession of Mrs. Anne P. Shaw, Longview, Texas.
Table of Contents
MY STORY (Dear Children, I think I will sit down awhile), 1
DAVIS FAMILY (A little of your family tree), 2
OUR FAMILY TREE (A Major up in Washington fixed our family tree), 2
Chart of Families, 3
The Davis Family...
Dates:
1952
Collection
Identifier: A-0055
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, poems, and biographical and genealogical materials.
Dates:
1924-1979
Collection
Identifier: A-0310
Collection
Identifier: A-0019
Scope and Contents
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:
1832-1950
Collection
Identifier: A-0029
Scope and Contents
Collection contains genealogical research mostly pertaining to the Earnest, Gaston, Hamilton, and Killion families. Includes Bible owned by Mary V. Hartgraves Bible.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1968-1994
Collection
Identifier: A-0135
Scope and Contents
The bible records (1830-1974) include births, deaths, and marriages of the Lanford, Yandle, Jimmerson, Wright, and Rodgers families of Henderson, Rusk County, Texas.
Dates:
1853
Collection
Identifier: A-0027
Scope and Contents
The collection includes business and personal correspondence, especially from Missoura's daughter Mintie who lived in Mexico and Columbia while her husband worked for the Texas Company (now Texaco). Other items of note are corporate records of the Garrison Coal and Oil Company, and correspondence on the genealogy of the Truitt and Garrett families. The collection also contains Mrs. Price's household notebooks and other writings, photographs, and personal memorabilia.
Dates:
1884-1947
Collection
Identifier: B-0054
Scope and Contents
With the purpose of sharing ideas and methods in family research, the society collects information on Nacogdoches County and surrounding areas to compile and preserve. The collection includes minutes, yearbooks, membership directories, scrapbooks, financial records, semi-annual publications, and miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1976-2007
Collection
Identifier: A-0328
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection consists of family letters and photographs for Neill family of Shelby County, Texas. The collection includes scholastic records (class notes, assigments, a diploma), genealogical materials (bible pages, newspaper clippings, obituaries), and financial records (account books, receipts, checks), as well as more than a dozen short stories written by Lela (Rhodes)Neill.
Pedigree chart of frequently mentioned family members
[1] Elias Mitchel...
Dates:
Event: Donated 5/27/2016
