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[Transcript: Memoir of Cornelia Garner]
Transcript of handwritten notes written by Cornelia Garner describing what she remembers of moving to Texas as a child, living on a farm in Navarro County, managing a ranch and making cloth during the Civil War, and various other details that she remembered. There are notes and annotations added to the end for clarification.
Date:
2019
Creator:
Treadwell, Cornelia Evelyn Garner
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Frontier Times, Volume 1, Number 3, December 1923
Magazine containing stories and articles about frontier history, border tragedy, and pioneer achievement. Included are articles about the colonists of Navarro and Denton counties, reminiscences of a Texas Ranger, the capture of Cynthia Ann Parker, and James R. Moss, a pioneer Llano citizen.
Date:
December 1923
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Petroleum.
This report contains information about the petroleum industry in the state of Texas, including chapters on the history, nature and origin of the resource, as well as oil and gas-bearing formations. The index begins on page 93.
Date:
July 1900
Creator:
Phillips, William Battle
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas
This book gives an overview of each of the six counties including history, important statistics and facts, and biographies of central figures. According to the title page, it contains "a History of this Important Section of the Great State of Texas, from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospects; also Biographical Mention of Many of the Pioneers and Prominent Citizens of the Present Time, and Full-page Portraits of the most Eminent Men of this Section."
Date:
1893
Creator:
Lewis Publishing Company
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Matthew "Dutch" Oualline]
Photograph of Matthew Waters "Dutch" Oualline standing in front of a large shed-like building. Large columns can be seen in the distance. Dutch was born on April 12, 1906, in Montgomery County, Texas. He died on January 30, 1965, in Olney, Texas. He is the great uncle of Sandra Person Wyche.
Date:
1935~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties.
This book gives an overview of the twelve Blackland Counties of Texas in alphabetical order. For each county, a brief description of the geographic and agricultural characteristics is given as well as statistics on population and county income. Additionally, a geological description of the Black Prairie Region gives more specific aspects of the area and the soil compositions and a final chapter discusses the property market of the area.
Date:
1895
Creator:
Crawford, Wilbur F. & [Moore, Monta J.]
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest
This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date:
1896
Creator:
Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Memoir of Cornelia Garner]
Handwritten notes written by Cornelia Garner describing what she remembers of moving to Texas as a child, living on a farm in Navarro County, managing a ranch and making cloth during the Civil War, and various other details that she remembered. There are sketches at the end that appear to be properties, labeled with names.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Treadwell, Cornelia Evelyn Garner
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History