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[Transcript of announcement from George Poindexter naming Thomas Torrance as Chief Justice of Amite County Court, November 9, 1821] (open access)

[Transcript of announcement from George Poindexter naming Thomas Torrance as Chief Justice of Amite County Court, November 9, 1821]

Copy of transcript for an announcement from Mississippi Governor, George Poindexter, naming Thomas Torrance as Chief Justice of Amite County Court.
Date: November 9, 1821
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Margaret McDowell]

Photograph of Margaret Stribling Sleeper, née McDowell. She is an elderly woman clad in austere clothing and is wearing a lace bonnet in her hair. On the back of the photo is a sticker with the text, "Margaret McDowell 1793-1864." The portrait hung in a descendant's home in Waco, Texas for many years.
Date: unknown
Creator: Willis, John Todd
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Margaret McDowell Sleeper]

Photograph of Margaret McDowell Stribling Sleeper, an elderly woman wearing austere black clothing and a bonnet. According to handwritten notes on the back of the photo, she was the wife of Gideon Sleeper, the mother of Gardner Southworth Sleeper, and the grandmother of Nannie Sleeper Evans.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History