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Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-264 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-264

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Parker County Commissioners Court is authorized to hire an employee to perform purchasing duties in the absence of a purchasing agent appointed pursuant to section 262.011 of the Local Government Code, and related questions.
Date: August 7, 2000
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7500 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-7500

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Under the given facts, can the Sheriff of Parker County legally live in the living quarters in the county jail, provided for the jailer of the county, receiving thereby free rent, utilities and groceries?
Date: December 21, 1946
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1450 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1450

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Duty of the County Clerk to record deaths and births occurring in Parker County within or without the City of Weatherford.
Date: April 30, 1952
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1396 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-1396

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the Frank White farm, which has been designated by the Hood-Parker Soil Conservation District as an experimental farm, is exempt from ad valorem taxes under stated facts.
Date: July 25, 1962
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt from Doughty, Slover & Culwell] (open access)

[Receipt from Doughty, Slover & Culwell]

Invoice from Doughty, Slover & Culwell in Weatherford, Texas for the account of Ollie Tucker documenting items bought April-June the previous year including thread, fabric, lace, and embroidery supplies. The invoice from January 1, 1904 is marked as paid on the 12th.
Date: January 12, 1904
Creator: Doughty, Slover & Culwell
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Castle of Memories (open access)

A Castle of Memories

A poem titled "A Castle of Memories," written by T. H. Gatlin, Weatherford, Texas. Religious poem/song recounting the life, once fair, of a homeless man, found with a worn Bible in his hands gone home to "A Mansion not made with hands", a smile on his face that "seemed to whisper of God's Grace". He implores the Youth to let the Bible guide their lives. The reverse side includes a printed advertisement "Complements…Of American Beauty Flour and Your friend, Virgil O. Stamps."
Date: unknown
Creator: Gatlin, T. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
My Old Uncle (open access)

My Old Uncle

A political poem/song titled "My Old Uncle," by T. H. Gatlin, Weatherford, Texas. Political poem/song displaying his gratefull allegiance to the U. S. A. touting liberty, that "Uncle" is a friend to both the wealthy and the poor and "never tries to dictate to us how we shall worship God". The lyrics proclaim "we owe a debt of gratitude" that can never be repaid, yet they are amid "ungrateful" citizens criticizing the Government such as those "Who would swap our form of Government, For One they don't even know. Some even praise the dictators--".
Date: unknown
Creator: Gatlin, T. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Texas HSJ 111 Honoring Thomas Franklin Grisham] (open access)

[Texas HSJ 111 Honoring Thomas Franklin Grisham]

Texas House Simple Resolution # 111 written by Truett Latimer honoring the life and career of Thomas Franklin Grisham.
Date: Spring 1954
Creator: Latimer, Truett
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Steve Wingo, February 25, 1993

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Steve Wingo from Weatherford, Texas concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Wingo worked at camps in Fort Worth, Texas (Company 1816) and Lubbock, Texas (Company 3820).
Date: February 25, 1993
Creator: O'Day, Buckley & Wingo, Steve
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Muster Roll: 21st Texas Volunteer Infantry] (open access)

[Muster Roll: 21st Texas Volunteer Infantry]

Revised muster roll for the 21st Texas Volunteer Infantry of the Confederate Army. This contains the names of the officers and the enlisted men who were a part of the company, as well as their fates.
Date: January 1, 1921
Creator: Cox, James C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter to Hartsford Howard from D.H. Sesk, October 8 1874] (open access)

[Letter to Hartsford Howard from D.H. Sesk, October 8 1874]

Letter from D.H. Sesk to Hartsford Howard. The letter is dated October 8, 1874.
Date: October 8, 1874
Creator: Sesk, D.H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Trading Card: Penitentiary Hollow] (open access)

[Trading Card: Penitentiary Hollow]

Trading card issued as part of the Geocache Challenge program for Lake Mineral Wells State Park, depicting a natural path in between two sandstone walls, in a forest. The back of the card contains information about the forest and the trees of the area.
Date: 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - August 31, 1943] (open access)

[Selective Service System Itinerary for T. N. Carswell - August 31, 1943]

An itinerary for T. N. Carswell, Clerical Audit Supervisor, Travel Order No. 2 for work in District 9-A performed between August 3, 1943 and August 31, 1943.
Date: August 31, 1943
Creator: Carswell, T. N. (Thomas Norwood)
System: The Portal to Texas History
[My Trust, by T. H. Gatlin] (open access)

[My Trust, by T. H. Gatlin]

A document titled "My Trust," written by T. H. Gatlin, Weatherford, Texas. The document is a religious poem/song advising that his faith in God his Father should be as his little boy's faith in him, his father. He notes that the inspiration came "From an actual happening and experience".
Date: unknown
Creator: Gatlin, T. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Sam Bass True Episode (open access)

A Sam Bass True Episode

A religious poem/song titled "A Sam Bass True Episode," written by T. H. Gatlin, Weatherford, Texas. Religious poem/song recounting an episode out of the life of an Old West outlaw named Sam Bass which suggested he had a compassionate heart theorizing that God might extend mercy to Bass at Judgement Day.
Date: unknown
Creator: Gatlin, T. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Workshop invitation from the Texas Historical Commission] (open access)

[Workshop invitation from the Texas Historical Commission]

Email from the Texas Historical Commission (THC) inviting recipients to workshops in Big Spring, Weatherford, and Mount Vernon to increase tourism in relation to the Historic Bankhead Highway.
Date: 2015
Creator: Garner, April
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mary Kemp, Parker County cemetery saver, County historian (open access)

Mary Kemp, Parker County cemetery saver, County historian

Research on Mary Kemp compiled for an article about interesting Texans that was published in the September 2013 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2013-09~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
THC heritage tourism historic Bankhead Highway initiative (open access)

THC heritage tourism historic Bankhead Highway initiative

Document containing information about events included in the Texas Historical Commission's Bankhead Highways heritage tourism initiative.
Date: 2015~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
"People" feature for September 2013 (open access)

"People" feature for September 2013

List of individuals to be included in an article about interesting Texans that was published in the September 2013 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2013-09~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interesting Texans (open access)

Interesting Texans

Document containing the concept for an article about interesting Texans that was published in the September 2013 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2013-09~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texans Extraordinaire (open access)

Texans Extraordinaire

Text for an article about interesting Texans that was published in the September 2013 issue of Texas Highways magazine.
Date: 2013-09~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Glenn G. Morgan, February 17, 2005 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Glenn G. Morgan, February 17, 2005

Interview with Glenn G. Morgan of Weatherford, Texas, who is a veteran of the United States Navy. In the interview, Mr. Morgan talks about his time before the war as well as his military training, travels, life on and the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and his survival at sea.
Date: February 17, 2005
Creator: Morris, Cork & Morgan, Glenn G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Marvin Lee Dunlap, April 26, 2018 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Marvin Lee Dunlap, April 26, 2018

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Marvin Lee Dunlap. He discusses his family and childhood growing up during the Great Depression and what led him to join the US Navy. He describes his experiences in bootcamp and fighting in the Pacific Theatre on the USS Duluth during World War Two.
Date: April 26, 2018
Creator: Dunlap, Marvin Lee & Misenhimer, Richard
System: The Portal to Texas History