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Early Swedish Settlers

Description: Historical survey of the history of Swedish communities in McCulloch County, especially the East Sweden area and Soldiers Waterhole historic marker. This report contains compiled stories, correspondence, and tables.
Date: 1971/1972
Creator: McCulloch County Historical Survey Committee
Partner: McCulloch County Historical Commission

[Historic Marker Application: Old Rock Baptist Church]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Old Rock Baptist Church, in Lytle, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: 1971
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

[Historic Marker Application: F. Cornelius House]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the F. Cornelius House, in Midfield, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: April 8, 1971
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

[Historic Marker Application: Rountree Rock House]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Rountree Rock House, in Beeville, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: 1971
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

A History Of Dickens County: Ranches and Rolling Plains

Description: This book discusses the history of Dickens County, Texas. The Table of Contents breaks the book into eight portions: The Beginnings, Education, Churches, Businesses, Ranches, Farming, Miscellaneous, Family Histories. An index to family histories is on the pages after the table of contents and before the first section.
Date: 1971
Creator: Arrington, Fred
Partner: UNT Libraries

Alpine, The Last Frontier Land

Description: Research paper written by Delia Jurado about the history of Alpine, Texas. The paper covers Alpine from the time it was formed in 1882 as Murphyville until the 1930s. Also covered are the history of Sul Ross State University and its namesake, Lawrence Sullivan Ross. This paper was written in 1971 as a research project for a class at Marfa High School.
Date: December 13, 1971
Creator: Jurado, Delia
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Oral History Interview with James W. Stroud, August 6, 1971

Description: Interview with James Stroud, who was an employee of the Dallas Cotton Exchange and Home Owners Loan Corporation, from Dallas, Texas. Stroud recounts his experience during the Great Depression and New Deal era in the DFW area, including his father's meat processing business, the beginnings of HOLC in Dallas, the kind's of people they assisted, the terms for HOLC loans, government finance, and his opinions of Franklin Roosevelt.
Date: August 6, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stroud, James W.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Historic Marker Application: Lockhart Plantation]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Lockhart Plantation, in Independence, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: November 30, 1971
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

Oral History Interview with L. DeWitt Hale, June 24, 1971

Description: Interview with Democratic attorney L. DeWitt Hale, a member of the Texas House of Representatives from Corpus Christi, Texas. In the interview, Hale discusses his experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-second Legislature. He also share his thoughts on many issues that include revenue bills, corporate profits tax, the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, legislative ethics, the "Dirty Thirty", appropriations, redistricting, and personal legisl… more
Date: June 24, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hale, L. DeWitt
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Emory M. Spencer, September 30, 1971

Description: Interview with attorney Emory M. Spencer. The interview includes Spencer's personal experiences about being an attorney. Spencer talks about the development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas 1920-71, cotton farming, Irish settlers and the Ku Klux Klan, gambling, the development of the Aransas County Airport, oil exploration, housing subdivisions, the Coastal Bend Regional Planning Commission, hurricanes, agriculture, property values, and prominent citizens of the county.
Date: September 30, 1971
Creator: Stephens, A. Ray & Spencer, Emory M.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

[Funeral Program for Josephine Sampson]

Description: Funeral program for Mrs. Josephine Sampson, born October 24, 1923. The funeral was held Saturday, April 3, 1971 at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church, officiated by Rev. Rufus Wilson. Funeral arrangements were made through Carter-Taylor Mortuary, Inc. and he was buried in Meadowlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: April 3, 1971
Partner: San Antonio Public Library

[Funeral Program for Tommie A. Morrison, May 25, 1971]

Description: Funeral program for Brother Tommie A. Morrison, born October 25, 1911 and died May 21, 1971. The funeral was held May 25, 1971 at Greater Mt. Olive Baptist Church. Funeral arrangements were made through Sutton-Sutton Mortuary and he was buried in Gates of Heaven Memorial Gardens in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: May 25, 1971
Partner: San Antonio Public Library

Oral History Interview with Frank A. Hoke, November 24, 1971

Description: Interview with Frank A. Hoke, banker and attorney. The interview includes Hoke's personal experiences about being an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Hoke talks about mortgage buying, loan amortization, insurance, home improvements, accounting procedures, politics and patronage, taxes and appraising, foreclosures, and loan servicing.
Date: November 24, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Hoke, Frank A.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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