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The Samuel T. Burns Slavery and Civil War documents (1839-1864; 1folder) is made up of a membership application for the Daughters of the Republic of Texas for Mrs. Daisy Cowart, a descendant of Samuel T.Burns. The documents also include correspondence materials on the San Jacinto Museum of History Association. There are also several clippings from local newspapers. Bills of sale account for some slave bought by Samuel T. Burns.

Scope and Contents The collection is divided into five series: Series 1: Personal Correspondence contains letters, postcards, holiday cards, newspaper clippings,invitations, programs, receipts, and photographs. Series 2: Walker County/ Huntsville History includes correspondence, binders and journals of handwritten notes, typed notes, recipes, family trees, newspaper clippings, notes concerning marriage records and land records, census records, and the history of Cincinnati and the Yellow Fever...

Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of two copies of 1899 booklet "Sam Houston Normal Institute: Twenty Succesful Sessions, 1879 to 1899: Historic Huntsville, Its Growth and Progress for Sixty-Two years, from 1837 to 1899: Huntsville as a Trade Center." The booklets are 104 pages long and contain photographs and text about Sam Houston Normal Intitute (SHNI), Huntville, Texas, and the area's prominent idividuals between and 1837-1899. It additionally contains advertisements for Huntsville businesses...

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The materials in this collection are composed of 175 separate issues of the Alumnus Magazine.