Mrs. W. Stanley Crawford
Date: 1869-06-20
Creator: D.S. Randolph
Description: Photograph of Mrs. W. Stanley Randolph. Written on the back of the photo, "June 20th, 1869. Also included is a calling card with her name printed on it and the address 1514 Eleventh Street, Wichita Falls, Texas. Handwritten on the back of the calling card, "Little gifts I send to-day, telling of remembrances true, would that they could fully say all the good I wish for you."
Holding Partner: Log Cabin Village
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Collage: Flag of Texas Hunters, Two men and a Woman during the Civil War period
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: [Collage of the Flag of Texas Hunters and Marshall Guards surrounded by portraits of two men, one in Confederate uniform and a woman depicted during the Civil War period.] Newspaper clipping information: "The [Texas Hunters and Marshall Guards] flag is the handiwork of a group of young ladies of Marshall and Harrison County and was presented to the Texas Hunters and Marshall Guards on the occasion of their entry into the conflict."
Holding Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38277/
"General Laws of the Ninth Legislature of the State of Texas"
Date: 1862
Creator: unknown
Description: Laws of Texas
Holding Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth31592/
"Standing Committees of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas" (1875)
Date: 1875
Creator: unknown
Description: Standing Committees of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas
Holding Partner: Star of the Republic Museum
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth31833/
Letter to Mary Jones, [1867]
Date: [1867]
Creator: Field, Joseph E.
Description: Copy of a letter to Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas, from Joseph E. Field.
Holding Partner: University of Houston Libraries' Special Collections
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2611/
Letters to Mary Jones's son, undated [10 items]
Date: unknown
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Description: 10 undated letters from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Holding Partner: University of Houston Libraries' Special Collections
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2621/
Parts of Letters - 2 Items
Date: unknown
Creator: Jones, Mary Smith McCrory
Description: Parts of letters from Mary Jones, wife of the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Holding Partner: University of Houston Libraries' Special Collections
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2620/
Confederate tax receipts for Mary Jones, signed in 1864
Date: 1864-12-06
Creator: unknown
Description: Receipts documenting ad valorem tax and soldiers' fund tax on ad valorem tax and agriculture for 1864. Includes estimate of tithes due from Mrs. Jones on corn and fodder.
Holding Partner: University of Houston Libraries' Special Collections
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[John H Reagan and Confederate States Loan]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: John H. Reagan served in many political roles during his lifetime, including: Probate Judge in Henderson County Texas from 1846 - 1847, Representative in the Texas Legislature from 1847-1848, District Judge in Texas from 1852-1857, U.S. Congressman from Texas from 1857-1861, Representative from the Texas Provisional Congress Confederate States of America in 1861, Postmaster General of the Confederacy from 1861-1865, Secretary of the Treasury of the Confederacy in 1865, Delegate to the Convention Framing the Constitution of Texas in 1874-75, once again as U.S. Congressman from Texas from 1875-1887, Senator from Texas in the U.S. Congress from 1887-1891, and last but not least, Chairman of the Railroad Commission in Texas from 1891-1902. He was also among the original commissioners that organized the Texas State Historical Association. He died in March 1905 in Anderson County Texas and is buried in the East Hill section of the Palestine City Cemetery. The certificate is one of the certificates he issued while serving as Postmaster General of the Confederacy. It assigns John Caudle as Postmaster of the Union Mills Post Office, located in Havanna County, Virginia.
Holding Partner: Palestine Public Library
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14498/
[600 Block S. May - Dilley's Iron Foundry]
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: Illinois-native George Mansfield Dilley, the prominent railroad-building contractor who played an instrumental role in the expansion of railroads throughout Texas and the South, established this foundry in 1873, one year after the railroad arrived in Palestine. The George M. Dilley & Son Foundry, located adjacent to the I&GN tracks, at one time contained more than ten buildings. The enterprise manufactured some farm equipment and machinery, but its primary output was gray iron and brass castings for Texas railroads. The elder Dilley moved to Dallas in the 1880s, but the foundry continued to be run by his son, George Edward Dilley – one of Palestine’s most prominent citizens of the late 19th century. G.E. Dilley continued operations at the foundry until his death in 1932; his son Clarence V. Dilley then took over until his own death five years later. In the mid-1930s, the plant had an average payroll of about twenty thousand dollars, for a workforce of twenty to twenty-five men. The foundry ceased operations in the late 1930s. All that remains today are the frame office building, the nearby brick brass furnace building, and a lengthy iron fence which borders the property and faces May Street (which local historians ...
Holding Partner: Palestine Public Library
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