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| COLLECTION INFORMATION | TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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Size: 516 items, 6 boxes (3 linear feet) Acquisition: Gift, 1970 Access: Open for research Processed by: Pam Palmer, 1982 |
Missoura Garrett was born March 22, 1869 in Shelby County, Texas. She attended various schools including Keachi College in 1886-1887 and taught in several East Texas towns during the late 1880's and early 1890's, including Center and Garrison. In 1895 she married William F. Price who operated a coal and oil business first in Logansport, Louisiana, then in Garrison. By the time she married she had changed the spelling of her first name to "Missoura" and used this form consistently for the rest of her life.
The Prices lived in a house at 304 Mound Street in Nacogdoches. When it burned in the 1920's, it was rebuilt by Dietrich Rulfs. His drawings for rebuilding and materials specifications are included in the collection. Mrs. Price ran a boarding house in that location from the 1920's to 1940's.
Mrs. Price was active in women's organizations, especially the Cum Concilio Club of which she was president and a member for fifty years.
("Missoura Garrett Price Papers." East Texas Research Center. Ralph W. Steen Library. Stephen F. Austin State University).
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 & 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.
[A-27]
BOX 1
Folder 1: William F. Price - Correspondence re: Garrison Coal and Oil Company, 1919-1921. 9 items.
Folder 2: William F. Price - Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1920-1932. 6 items.
Folder 3: William F. Price - Financial Papers, 1919. 10 items.
Folder 4: William F. Price - Financial Papers [bank statement and checks], 1919-20, 1933. 44 items.
Folder 5: William F. Price - Garrison Coal and Oil Company Leases, 1919 1920. 8 items.
Folder 6: William F. Price - tax receipts for E1 Paso County, 1917. 4 items.
Folder 7: William F. Price - Litigations, 1921-1925. 6 items.
Folder 8: William F. Price - Shelby Co. deed, 1898 and Lignite Company Papers, 1924. 5 items.
Folder 9: William F. Price - stray envelopes. n.d. 4 items.
Folder 10: Oil and Gas Legal Papers (not W. F. Price), 1918-1921. 2 items.
Folder 11: Correspondence from Missoura Price, 1884-1933. 5 items.
Folder 12: Correspondence to Missoura Price from Mary Price [daughter], n.d. 4 items.
Folder 13: Letters of recommendation for Mary and Mintie Price, 1914 1920. 7 items.
Folder 14: Correspondence to Missoura Price from Laura Blount Williams [granddaughter], 1938. 7 items.
Folder 15: Correspondence to Missoura Price from Dick [nephew], 1936, 1942. 2 items.
Folder 16: Correspondence to Missoura Price from Etta [sister], 1941. 2 items.
Folder 17: Correspondence to Missoura Price from Robert [nephew], 1941 1943. 3 items.
Folder 18: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie Price Williams [daughter], 1918-1919. 2 items.
Folder 19: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Jan. - May 1938. 6 items.
Folder 20: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, June - July S. 1938. 5 items.
Folder 21: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, July 11 - Aug. 18, 1938. 5 items.
Folder 22: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Aug. 22 - Sept. 14, 1938. 5 items.
BOX 2
Folder 1: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Sept. 16 - Oct. 15, 1938. 5 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Oct. 19 - Nov. 16, 1938. 5 items.
Folder 3: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Nov. 23, 1938 - Jan. 23, 1939. 5 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Jan. 24 - Feb. 22, 1939. 4 items.
Folder 5: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Feb. 1939 [beginning of letter missing] - Oct. 2, 1939. 2 newspaper clippings on Alma Cluck [opera star]. 6 items.
Folder 6: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Oct. 8 [about forced airplane landing in Guatemala] - Nov. 17, 1939. 6 items.
Folder 7: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Nov. 27 - Dec. 31, 1939. 5 items.
Folder 8: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Jan. - Feb. 13, 1940. 5 items.
Folder 9: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Feb. 25 - Mar. 27, 1940. 5 items.
Folder 10: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Apr. 1 - May 1, 1940. 5 items.
Folder 11: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, May 29 - Sept. 1, 1940. 5 items.
Folder 12: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Sept. 14 - 29, 1940. 4 items.
Folder 13: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Oct. 6 - Nov. 3, 1940. 5 items.
Folder 14: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, Nov. 10 - Dec. 3, 1940. 4 items.
Folder 15: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, n.d. and fragments. 5 items.
Folder 16: Correspondence to Missoura from Mintie, stray envelopes. 13 items.
Folder 17: Correspondence to Missoura from relatives, 1925-1945. 7 items.
Folder 18: Correspondence and Affidavit re: Santa Anna silver, 1936-1937. 4 items.
Folder 19: Correspondence re: Genealogy [Garrett and Truitt families], 1927 - Mar. 1929. 8 items.
Folder 20: Correspondence re: Genealogy [Garrett and Truitt families], April 1929 - 1932. 8 items.
Folder 21: Correspondence we: Genealogy [Garrett and Truitt families], 1935 1936. 8 items.
Folder 22: Correspondence re: Genealogy [Garrett and Truitt families!, 1937 1938, n.d. 6 items.
BOX 3
Folder 1: Correspondence and shipping receipts re: monument for Texana Whitaker, 1932. 5 items.
Folder 2: Correspondence to Missoura, miscellaneous personal, 1895-1935. 6 items.
Folder 3: Correspondence to Missoura, miscellaneous personal, 1937-1940. 6 items.
Folder 4: Correspondence to Missoura, miscellaneous personal, 1944-1946. 7 items.
Folder 5: Miscellaneous business correspondence to Missoura, 1918-1937. 7 items.
Folder 6: Miscellaneous business correspondence to Missoura, 1940-1943. 13 items.
Folder 7: Correspondence not to or from Missoura, 1929, n.d. 2 items.
Folder 8: Stray envelopes and stamps. 16 items.
Folder 9: Correspondence - Stone Fort postcard and block [?] print card, n.d. 2 items.
Folder 10: Cum Concilio Club - Correspondence, 1943 and n.d. 3 items.
Folder 11: Cum Concilio Club - Missoura's 50th anniversary as a member. Tribute and cards from gifts, 1945. 13 items.
Folder 12: Cum Concilio Club - Beautification of Nacogdoches, 1928. 1 item.
Folder 13: Cum Concilio Club - Yearbooks, 1900-1910. 11 items.
Folder 14: Cum Concilio Club - Yearbooks, 1910-1921. 10 items.
Folder 15: Cum Concilio Club - Yearbooks, 1921-1932. 11 items.
Folder 16: Cum Concilio Club - Yearbooks, 1933-1946. 13 items.
BOX 4
Folder 1: Writings - Autobiographical Reminiscences I, n.d. 1 item.
Folder 2: Writings - Autobiographical Reminiscences II, n.d. 1 item.
Folder 3: Writings - "What Nacogdoches Needs," n.d. 2 items.
Folder 4: Writings - George W. Truitt, n.d. 2 items.
Folder 5: Writings - draft of theme on Romeo and Juliet, n.d. 1 item.
Folder 6: Writings - English theme on Kipling and Gandhi, cat 1932. 1 item.
Folder 7: Writings - History theme on Mahatma Gandhi with newspaper clipping, ca. 1932. 2 items.
Folder 8: Writings - Theme on Vachel Lindsey, n.d. 1 item
Folder 9: Speech to Texas Division of Daughters of the Confederacy, n.d. 1 item.
Folder 10: Short writings, n.d. 2 items.
Folder 11: Notes on the career of C. B. Williams [son-in-law], n.d. 1 item.
Folder 12: Notes on Children's Literature [cont. in next 2 folders]. n.d.
Folder 13: Notes on Children's Literature, cont.
Folder 14: Notes on Children's Literature, cont.
Folder 15: Notes on History of Education, n.d. 1 item.
BOX 5
Folder 1: Notes for a tour of Nacogdoches, n.d. 1 item.
Folder 2: Notes on Regulators and Moderators [Shelby Co., 1840's], n.d. 2 items.
Folder 3: Notes on early Texas history, n.d. 3 items.
Folder 4: Notebook - household and Miscellaneous Notes, 1933. 1 item.
Folder 5: Notebooks - Household, Inventory of Possessions, 1925, 1943 1947, n.d. 3 items.
Folder 6: Notebook - Household Accounts, 1943-1947. 1 item.
Folder 7: Notebook - Books recommended by teacher, Miss Harrison, 1899. 1 item.
Folder 8: Household Notes - Includes notes on boarders, 1925-1941. 1 item [was in looseleaf notebook].
Folder 9: Autobiographical Notes for 1885-1892. 1 item.
Folder 10: Miscellaneous Notes, n.d. 11 items.
Folder 11: Miscellaneous Notes, ca. 1945 [Contest entries and essay on war]. 1 item.
BOX 6
Folder 1: Miscellaneous notes on women and World War II, 1944. 1 item.
Folder 2: Announcements - marriage, graduation, death, 1895-1946. 10 items.
Folder 3: Travel, 1935, n.d. 5 items.
Folder 4: Miscellaneous Pamphlets, 1931-1936. 8 items.
Folder 5: Photographs, 1898-1934. 5 items
Folder 6: Photographs and negatives of felling of a tree near 310 Mound [house which is now location of Cason-Monk Funeral Home is in background], n.d. 13 items.
Folder 7: Postcards and unidentified photographs, 1909-1910, n.d. 7 items.
Folder 8: Wallpaper samples from Mintie's house in Columbia [?], Christmas gift cards, small woven mat, n.d. 10 items.
Folder 9: Techniques for winning contests [was in ring binder], n.d. 1 item.
Folder 10: Miscellaneous, 1940, n.d. 7 items.
Bundle 1
1. Hand-drawn plans for rebuilding the Price House in the 1920's [by Dietrich Rulfs]:
a. First Floor.
b. Second Floor.
c. Southside elevation.
d. Front elevation and stairs.
2. Specifications of rebuilding a burned residence owned by W. F. Price .... by Dietrich Rulfs, Architect, Nacogdoches.
3. Map of the Price & Sturdevant Addition in the City of Nacogdoches, n.d. [on blue print paper].
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