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Texas Millennium Book: The Way Things Used to Be (open access)

Texas Millennium Book: The Way Things Used to Be

A collection of reminiscences, each preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author.
Date: 1999
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan, 1942- & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Family Secrets (open access)

Texas Family Secrets

Collection of stories by forty local writers describing family histories and anecdotes in the Grayson County, Texas area. Each story is preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author.
Date: 1997
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grayson County Reminiscences: The First 150 Years, 1846-1996 (open access)

Grayson County Reminiscences: The First 150 Years, 1846-1996

Collection of stories by forty-two local writers describing family histories and anecdotes in the Grayson County, Texas area. Each story is preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author.
Date: 1996
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan
System: The Portal to Texas History
More Texas Family Secrets (open access)

More Texas Family Secrets

A collection of reminiscences, each preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author.
Date: 2003
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Memories of Wartime Wanderings: What I Did in World War II (open access)

Memories of Wartime Wanderings: What I Did in World War II

Personal memoirs of Ann van Wynen Tomas about her time in the U.S. Foreign Service during World War II, serving in South Africa and later at the Dutch Government in Exile, in London.
Date: 2013
Creator: Thomas, Ann van Wynen & Lincecum, Jerry Bryan, 1942-
System: The Portal to Texas History
Twenty Years of Telling Our Stories (open access)

Twenty Years of Telling Our Stories

Compilation of personal anecdotes and reminiscences collected from people living in or around Grayson, Texas with biographical information for each person. A cumulative index (volumes 1-6, 10) starts on page 131.
Date: 2010
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan, 1942- & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
First-Born, Middle Child, Caboose: Stories about birth order and family relationships (open access)

First-Born, Middle Child, Caboose: Stories about birth order and family relationships

Compilation of personal anecdotes and reminiscences about topics related to family relationships, collected from people living in or around Grayson, Texas. It includes biographical information for each person. A cumulative index (volumes 1-6) starts on page 135.
Date: 2007
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan, 1942- & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
How to Write Your Life Story (open access)

How to Write Your Life Story

Guide to writing autobiographical stories or family memoirs providing a series of themed prompts and exercises, with a brief example of each type of anecdote.
Date: 2014
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan, 1942- & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Family Food Tales and Recipes (open access)

Family Food Tales and Recipes

Compilation of personal anecdotes and reminiscences about topics related in some way to food, collected from people living in or around Grayson, Texas. It includes biographical information for each person and some of the stories include recipes. A cumulative index (volumes 1-6, 9, and 12) starts on page 103.
Date: 2012
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan, 1942- & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Contemplating Cancer: Stories of Life, Love, Laughter and Loss (open access)

Contemplating Cancer: Stories of Life, Love, Laughter and Loss

Compilation of personal anecdotes and reminiscences collected from people living in or around Grayson, Texas with biographical information for each person. This volume contains stories from people whose lives have been affected in some way by cancer.
Date: 2008
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan, 1942- & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Worley's Sherman City Directory, 1950 (open access)

Worley's Sherman City Directory, 1950

The directory for Sherman, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; also a Buyers' Guide and a Complete Classified Business Directory." General index is on page 7; index to advertisers starts on page 8.
Date: 1950
Creator: John F. Worley Directory Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Clock and the Storyteller: Memoirs of Shirley Clark (open access)

The Clock and the Storyteller: Memoirs of Shirley Clark

Book of collected autobiographical anecdotes of Shirley Clark about her family and life in Texas as part of a humanities project at Austin College.
Date: 2009
Creator: Clark, Shirley; Lincecum, Jerry Bryan & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
R. L. Polk & Co.'s Sherman City Directory, 1912-1913 (open access)

R. L. Polk & Co.'s Sherman City Directory, 1912-1913

The directory for Sherman, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "a complete alphabetical list of business firms and private citizens; a miscellaneous directory of city and county officials, churches, public and private schools, banks, asylums, hospitals and homes, commercial bodies, secret societies, street and avenue guide, etc., etc., etc. Also a Complete Classified Business Directory and Numerical Street Directory." Indexes to content and advertisers are on the page following the title page.
Date: 1912
Creator: R.L. Polk & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History
R. L. Polk & Co.'s Sherman City Directory, 1918 (open access)

R. L. Polk & Co.'s Sherman City Directory, 1918

The directory for Sherman, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "a complete alphabetical list of business firms and private citizens; a miscellaneous directory of city and county officials, churches, public and private schools, banks, asylums, hospitals, commercial bodies, secret societies, street and avenue guide, etc., etc., etc. Also a Complete Classified Business Directory (The Buyers' Guide) and Numerical Street Directory." Indexes to content and advertisers are on the pages following page 6.
Date: 1918
Creator: R.L. Polk & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Polk's Sherman City Directory, 1923 (open access)

Polk's Sherman City Directory, 1923

The directory for Sherman, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "an alphabetical list of business firms and private citizens; a miscellaneous directory of city and county officials, churches, public and private schools, banks, asylums, hospitals, commercial bodies, secret societies, street and avenue guide, and a complete Classified Business Directory, The Buyers' Guide." Index to content is on page 13; index to advertisers starts on page 14.
Date: 1923
Creator: R.L. Polk & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History
R. L. Polk & Co's. Sherman City Directory, 1925 (open access)

R. L. Polk & Co's. Sherman City Directory, 1925

The directory for Sherman, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "a Complete Alphabetical List of Business Firms and Private Citizens; A Miscellaneous Directory of City and County Officials, Churches, Public and Private Schools, Banks. Asylums, Hospitals and Homes, Commercial Bodies, Secret Societies, Street and Avenue Guide, and Numerical Street Directory. Also a complete Classified Business Directory and a Buyers' Guide." Index to content is on page 8; index to advertisers starts on page 9.
Date: 1925
Creator: R.L. Polk & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Worley's Sherman City Directory, 1935 (open access)

Worley's Sherman City Directory, 1935

The directory for Sherman, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; also a Buyers' Guide and a Complete Classified Business Directory." General index is on page 7; index to advertisers is on page 8.
Date: 1935
Creator: John F. Worley Directory Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Worley's Sherman City Directory, 1947-8 (open access)

Worley's Sherman City Directory, 1947-8

The directory for Sherman, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; also a Buyers' Guide and a Complete Classified Business Directory." General index is on page 7; index to advertisers starts on page 8.
Date: 1948
Creator: John F. Worley Directory Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History
History and Business Guide of Sherman and Grayson County, Texas (open access)

History and Business Guide of Sherman and Grayson County, Texas

This text gives an overview of the histories of Grayson County, Texas and of the county seat, Sherman touching on government, business, religion, organizations, and other aspects of life. The book also contains advertisements from local businesses.
Date: 1940
Creator: Anderson, Ed. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
History and Business Guide of Sherman, Denison, and Grayson County, Texas (open access)

History and Business Guide of Sherman, Denison, and Grayson County, Texas

This text gives an overview of the histories of Grayson County, Texas and the cities Sherman and Denison, touching on government, business, religion, organizations, and other aspects of life. The book also contains advertisements from local businesses.
Date: 1948
Creator: Anderson, Ed. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Memories of the 20th Century: Stories by Eleanor Monroe (open access)

Memories of the 20th Century: Stories by Eleanor Monroe

Collection of stand-alone autobiographical anecdotes written by Eleanor Monroe about her family and life in Sherman, Texas.
Date: 2009
Creator: Monroe, Eleanor; Lincecum, Jerry Bryan & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remembering School Days (open access)

Remembering School Days

A collection of reminiscences, each preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author.
Date: 2005
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Grayson County Reminiscences: The First 150 Years, 1846-1996 (open access)

Grayson County Reminiscences: The First 150 Years, 1846-1996

Collection of stories by forty-two local writers describing family histories and anecdotes in the Grayson County, Texas area. Each story is preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author.
Date: 2017
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Memories of the 20th Century: Stories by Eleanor Monroe (open access)

Memories of the 20th Century: Stories by Eleanor Monroe

Collection of stand-alone autobiographical anecdotes written by Eleanor Monroe about her family and life in Sherman, Texas.
Date: 2017
Creator: Monroe, Eleanor; Lincecum, Jerry Bryan & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History