[Criminal Docket District Court, Cooke County, 1887-1897] (open access)

[Criminal Docket District Court, Cooke County, 1887-1897]

Ledger from Cooke County, Texas, containing criminal docket information that includes attorney names, the names of parties involved, offenses, witnesses, and orders made.
Date: 1887-10~
Creator: Cooke County (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Criminal Docket, District Court, Cooke County, 1887-1908] (open access)

[Criminal Docket, District Court, Cooke County, 1887-1908]

Ledger from Cooke County, Texas containing a list of convicted criminals from the district courts. The entries list contains information on the convicts names, offenses, date of filing, and their sentences.
Date: 1887/1908
Creator: Cooke County (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Laura Jernigan to Henry Moore, March 27. 1887 (open access)

[Letter from Laura Jernigan to Henry Moore, March 27. 1887

Letter from Laura Jernigan discusses how well her garden is doing and talks about her children going to the new schoolhouse in Cannon. The family is boarding the teacher and they are getting along well. There is a new jail in town. The town has a new paper, the Educational Journal, and the debate and literary society recently debated the subject of how prohibition would benefit the state of Texas. Includes original envelope.
Date: March 27, 1887
Creator: Jernigan, Laura
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Laura Jernigan to Henry Moore, September 26. 1887] (open access)

[Letter from Laura Jernigan to Henry Moore, September 26. 1887]

Letter from Laura Jernigan to Henry Moore talks about family news, and work that is done around their farm. Mentions how well some of the cousins and how much "flesh" they have gained. Apparently she doesn't like Texas. She says that even though Texas is, "a nasty filthy hateful" place it agrees with some. Includes original envelope.
Date: September 26, 1887
Creator: Jernigan, Laura
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Charleston Payne to Charles B. Moore, November 10, 1887] (open access)

[Letter from Charleston Payne to Charles B. Moore, November 10, 1887]

Letter from Charleston Payne to Charles B. Moore giving news of his family and discussing religious matters and philosophizing about the future as a "dark and forbidding" place. Includes original envelope that is from the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway.
Date: November 22, 1887
Creator: Payne, Charleston
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Postcard from John Wallace, February 25, 1887]

Bettie Stewart died. He mentions that everyone is doing well.
Date: February 25, 1887
Creator: Wallace, John
Object Type: Postcard
System: The UNT Digital Library
Memories of Martha Elizabeth Gibson Anglin (open access)

Memories of Martha Elizabeth Gibson Anglin

A transcript of a 1963 oral history with Martha Elizabeth Anglin (née Gibson), recalling her childhood in Alabama, her family's move to Texas in 1895, and her marriage and life on a farm in Commerce, Texas. Footnotes are provided to add context to the narrative.
Date: 1887/1963
Creator: Anglin, Michael W.; Anglin, Reba; Barnett, Robert & Barnett, Patricia
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of Dallas County, Texas : from 1837 to 1887 (open access)

History of Dallas County, Texas : from 1837 to 1887

A history of the settlement and political organization of Dallas County as well as altercations between Anglo-American settlers and the indigenous American Indians of the region.
Date: 1887
Creator: Brown, John Henry
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Drink and the drink question : a discriminating license the true policy ; prohibition a fraud and failure. (open access)

Drink and the drink question : a discriminating license the true policy ; prohibition a fraud and failure.

Anti-prohibition booklet arising from the Anti-Prohibition State Convention held in Dallas, 1887.
Date: 1887
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History