DRT Library
Vol. 2, No. 3/4
Spring/Summer 2005
Maverick family papers presented to DRT Library
Members of the Partain family gathered to celebrate the life of Samuel Augustus Maverick with the donation of his
family papers to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library on March 24. Pictured are: Dr. Brett Lawton,
holding daughter Lilly Catherine, and wife Laura Partain Lawton with daughter Annabelle Laura, from Orlando
Florida; Laura Maverick Meadows Partain, donor, and husband Jack Partain, Jr., San Antonio; and Conor and Mary
Emma Partain Civins, Dallas.
Samuel Augustus Maverick felt such strong connections with the Alamo that he built his home at the corner of
what is now Alamo Plaza and Houston Street where the Gibbs Building stands. To honor that intense connection,
Maverick descendant and San Antonio resident Laura Maverick Meadows Partain presented Maverick’s printed
copy of the Texas Declaration of Independence and other family papers to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Library at the Alamo in a short ceremony in the library on the Alamo grounds Thursday, March 24, 2005.
Library Committee Chairman Frances Pryor expressed her appreciation to Mrs. Partain for committing these
historical documents to the care of the DRT Library where they will be made available to scholars as part of the
library’s research collection.
Alamo Committee Chairman Madge Roberts said, “The donation could not have been more timely, as we are
celebrating 100 years of the custodianship of the Alamo by the Daughters. Currently we are working to renovate
the exhibit in the Long Barrack and these documents are relevant to the story we are trying to tell.” Alamo
historian Bruce Winders said, “Maverick is important to the Alamo’s history, to San Antonio’s history, and to the
history of Texas. Many use the term ‘maverick’ never realizing that it originated with Samuel Maverick’s open
range, unbranded cattle.”
Mrs. Partain hopes that Texans will view these historical documents and reflect on the great heritage left by
their ancestors – not that of fame or of wealth, but of character. Pioneer surgeon and civic leader Dr. George
Cupples termed Samuel Maverick’s heritage that “of a just, an upright and a conscientious man, of one who never
compromised with his convictions, who never bowed the knee to expedience. His name has long been a synonym
for honor, integrity and truth."
Focus on the Collections:
The Samuel Augustus Maverick Family Papers
The library’s sources on Samuel A. Maverick and his family gained an important addition with the donation of
family papers by descendant Laura Maverick Meadows Partain. Samuel Augustus Maverick was a signer of the
Texas Declaration of Independence, an early Texas land magnate, a legislator, and a leading citizen of the Republic
and State of Texas. He arrived in San Antonio just before the siege of Bexar and participated in the attack ending
the siege. In February 1836, he was elected as one of the two delegates from the Alamo garrison to the convention
that framed and issued the declaration on March 1, 1836, at Washington-on-the-Brazos. He left the Alamo on
March 2 and arrived at the convention on March 5. His copy of the Texas Declaration of Independence has the
following words, in his own hand, “This was printed on 2d. March which was the 1st day of the sitting of the
Convention: Consequently those members who came in afterwards have their names to the Declaration, but not to
this printed copy.” The names of those arriving later, his included, were noted by Maverick on the document.
Of the 1000 copies of the declaration printed in March 1836, only about thirteen are known to have survived.
Twelve original copies were listed by W. Thomas Taylor in Texfake, 1991. Three were known to be in private
collections, none of which were the Maverick copy, and nine at public institutions: four at the University of Texas
at Austin (the Austin family papers, the Vandale Collection, the Maury Maverick, Sr., papers, and one from an
unknown source); the Mirabeau B. Lamar papers at the Texas State Library; the University of Texas at Arlington;
the Streeter Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University; the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University;
and one given in 1979 to the Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library at the Alamo by New York Congressman
Hamilton Fish, Jr.
Other items donated by Mrs. Partain are documents relating to Samuel Maverick’s incarceration in Perote
prison, where he was held following an 1842 Mexican Army invasion of Texas, including a pass issued upon his
release and a manuscript map showing his route from Mexico City to Veracruz; a bound volume recording several
decades of land transactions; Samuel Maverick’s certificates of election as Mayor of San Antonio and Chief Justice
of Bexar County; and a correspondence copy book and an account book, both belonging to William Harvey
Maverick, one of Samuel Maverick’s sons.
The latest donation adds to other bodies of family letters and documents, the law library of Samuel Maverick’s
grandson, U.S. Congressman and San Antonio mayor Maury Maverick, letters of granddaughter Lucy Maverick,
and research papers of great-grandson Maury Maverick, Jr.
DRT Library
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The Ewing Halsell Foundation funds
initial phase of fire suppression system
Support received from The Joan and Herb Kelleher Foundation
and the DRT Native Texan License Plate Fund will go toward the second phase.
The DRT Library Committee is pleased to announce the receipt of $50,000 from The Ewing Halsell
Foundation to implement phase I of the installation of a new fire suppression system to protect the
valuable contents of the library from fire and water damage.
The initial phase will install a gas suppression system inside the vault area and a highly sensitive
smoke and fire detection system, which will alert security before significant damage can be done, in the
main library, support offices, vault, and Alamo Hall. The second phase, for which funding is still being
sought, will extend the gas fire suppression system to the main library and support offices. Both phases
will be completed by the end of 2005. The Joan and Herb Kelleher Foundation has given $5,000 toward
the system and the DRT Board of Management has allocated $10,000 from the DRT Native Texan
License Plate Fund. Simplex Grinnell, San Antonio, will install the Novec 1230 system. The library is
currently protected by a Halon 1301 system installed in the 1970’s.
Sally Senzell Isaacs wins the June Franklin Naylor Award
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library
Committee is pleased to announce that the first annual June
Franklin Naylor Award for the Best Book for Children on
Texas History is awarded to Sally Senzell Isaacs, Oradell,
New Jersey, for her book Cattle Trails and Cowboys, 18401890, published in 2004 by Heinemann Library, Chicago,
as part of the American Adventure series.
The presentation was made by Madge Thornall
Roberts, Naylor Committee Chairman, in Midland, Texas,
at the 114th Annual Convention of the Daughters of the
Republic of Texas.
Sally Isaacs grew up in Evansville, Indiana, and
graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana,
with a major in American history and sociology. She has
written over 30 children’s books on American history
topics and enjoys researching historical periods and
retelling the stories for children. Cattle Trails and
Cowboys paints a picture of life on the frontier and the
hardships endured by cowboys as well as how they spent
their leisure time.
In making the presentation, which Mrs. Roberts said
was a unanimous choice by the judges, she commented,
“This is a beautiful book in design and content. . . . It is
very fitting that the first Naylor award goes to a book
which deals with history that took place in this part of
Texas.” Mrs. Naylor, for whom the award is named, was a
former schoolteacher and long-time resident of Odessa, and
she served as President General of the Daughters of the
Republic of Texas, Inc., from 1989-1991.
The June Franklin Naylor Award for the Best Book for
Children on Texas History, endowed by the family of June
Franklin Naylor and sponsored by the Daughters of the
Republic of Texas Library, is given annually to the
author/illustrator of the most distinguished book for
DRT Library
children and young adults, grades K-12, that accurately
portrays the history of Texas, whether fiction or nonfiction.
A three-member panel of judges comprised of historians,
educators, and librarians judge the entries. The 2004-05
Committee included its chairman Madge Thornall Roberts,
author, historian, and Alamo Committee Chairman; Dr.
Richard Bruce Winders, Historian/Curator at the Alamo;
and Lucie Olson, independent library consultant
The chairman of the 2005 committee is historian Dora
Guerra who is assisted by library consultant Lucie Olson
and educator Lucy Podmore.
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The Summerfield G. Roberts Foundation supports
DRT Texas History Forums
The Summerfield G. Roberts Foundation announced grant funding in the amount of $4,000 for the support of
current and future history forums held by the DRT Library on the grounds of the Alamo in Alamo Hall.
The DRT Library, under the auspices of the DRT Historian General, sponsors two Texas history forums each
year, one in February and one in October. Current Historian General is Madge Thornall Roberts.
The next scheduled forum is Friday, October 21, and the topic is Preserving the Alamo in celebration of the
DRT’s 100th anniversary of custodianship this year and the opening of the new Long Barrack exhibit.
Winner of the Kate Broocks Bates
Award Announced
Recipients of the Kate Broocks Bates Award for
Historical Research were Jerry Thompson and Lawrence T.
Jones, III for Civil War and the Revolution on the Rio
Grande Frontier.
Other titles nominated were: Texas after the Civil
War: The Struggle of Reconstruction by Carl H.
Moneyhon; The Strange Career of Bilingual Education in
Texas 1836-1981 by Carlos Kevin Blanton; Sea of Mud:
The Retreat of the Mexican Army after San Jacinto, an
Archeological Investigation by Gregg J. Dimmick; I Would
Rather Sleep in Texas by Mary Margaret McAllen
Amberson; New Orleans and the Texas Revolution by
Edward L. Miller; Sleuthing the Alamo by James Crisp;
The African Texans by Alwyn Barr; The Asian Texans by
Marilyn Dell Brady; The European Texans by Allan
Kownslar; The Texas Indians by David La Vere; The
Mexican Texans by Phyllis McKenzie; Inventing Texas by
Laura McLemore; The Indian Texans by James
Smallwood.
Dr. Patrick Carroll, Texas A&M University at Corpus
Christi, was chairman. Committee members were: Dr.
Richard Francaviglia, UT-Arlington, and Dr. Emilio
Zamora, UT-Austin.
Established in May of 1976 by Mrs. Kate Harding
Bates Parker and Mrs. Clara Elisabeth Bates Nisbet
honoring their mother, Mrs. Kate Broocks Arnall Bates, a
Real Daughter and dedicated member of the DRT, the
administration of the fund was transferred by the DRT in
1985 to the Texas State Historical Association.
Family History Seminar Set for August 13
The DRT Library and the Texana/ Genealogy
Department of the San Antonio Public Library are cohosting a family history seminar – Preserving Your
Family History – on Saturday, August 13, from 9 a.m. to
3:15 p.m. at the Central Library Auditorium, 600 Soledad,
San Antonio.
No registration fees will be charged, but registration is
recommended so that sufficient handouts will be available.
Speakers include Mary Margaret Amberson,
Genealogical Research for South Texans: The
Complexities of Borderland Origins; Laurie Jasinski,
Down the Old Backroads: One Family’s Role in the
Recreation History of the Texas Hill Country; Ed Miller,
DRT Library
Piecing your Family’s History Together with Proper
Documentation; and Peter Myers, Preparing to Interview a
Loved One.
To register, call (210) 207-2500 or e-mail
genealogydesk@sanantonio.gov . Registrations may be
mailed to: Texana/Genealogy Department, San Antonio
Public Library, 600 Soledad, San Antonio, Texas 78205.
For more information, call the Texana/Genealogy
Department at (210) 207-2500 or the DRT Library at (210)
225-1071.
Conference presenters, left to right: Dr. Félix D. Almaráz, Jr.,
Miguel González Quiroga, Dr. Richard Bruce Winders, moderator,
Dr. Joseph E. Chance, and Dr. Stanley C. Green.
Bi-National Conference held at the
Menger Hotel
The Texas Revolution on the Rio Grande was discussed and areas not yet fully explored were highlighted
during the recent bi-national conference hosted by the
Alamo and the DRT Library at the Menger Hotel, March
24-25, 2005. An evening reception at the Alamo preceded
the conference where a special exhibit of Samuel
Maverick’s papers, owned by the DRT Library, were
displayed.
Speakers and their topics were: Miguel González
Quiroga, Nuevo Leon in the Texas Revolution; Dr. Stanley
C. Green, The Texas Revolution and the Rio Grande
Border; Dr. Joseph E. Chance, José Maria Carvajal and
the Struggle for Texas Independence; and Dr. Félix D.
Almaráz, Jr., Santa Anna and His Generals. Dr. Richard
Bruce Winders, Historian and Curator of the Alamo, was
the moderator.
For a copy of the conference proceedings, please email Elaine Davis at edavis@drtl.org for ordering
instructions.
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Texana Treasures
Gifts received November 1, 2004 through May 31, 2005
Special thanks to Laura Maverick Meadows Partain and her family for their generous gift of the Maverick family
documents; to the Ewing Halsell Foundation for their gift of $55,000 toward the library’s fire suppression
system; to Cece Cheever for her very generous support of the library’s endowment fund; to the Joan and Herb
Kelleher Foundation for their gift of $5,000 and to the DRT Board of Management for their gift through the
DRT Native Texan License Plate Fund of $10,000 toward the fire suppression system.
General Contributions:
John D. Weiss
Encino, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Bob Steakley
Odessa, TX
Marie Beth Jones
Angleton, TX
Walter W. McMahan, Jr.
Denver, CO
Cassianne Booth
Williamsburg, VA
Mrs. M. Lee Schmitt
Colorado Springs, CO
Sultanas de Bejar
San Antonio, TX
Toly Kojev
Seattle, WA
Sharon Wolff
Boerne, TX
Sandra Jensen
Williams, AZ
Marc L. McLemore
Beaumont, TX
Mr. & Mrs. Coty Woolf
Lubbock, TX
General Chapter Contributions:
Robert Henry Chapter, DRT
Houston, TX
Sam Houston Chapter, DRT
Belton, TX
Jane Wells Woods Chapter, DRT,
Burnet, TX
John Tilley Edwards Chapter, DRT
Longview, TX
Village of Salado Chapter, DRT
Salado, TX
Fort Concho Chapter, DRT
San Angelo, TX
Bluebonnet Branch Chapter, DRT
League City, TX
Miss Ima Hogg Chapter, DRT
Stafford, TX
William Barret Travis Chapter, DRT
Austin, TX
Comanche Peak Chapter, DRT
Granbury, TX
DRT Library
Clara Driscoll Chapter, DRT
Corpus Christi, TX
Austin’s Ranging Company, DRT
New Braunfels, TX
Honorary Contributions:
Mr. & Mrs. Billy Price
In honor of Bob and Carol Steakley
Sharon Wolff
Corinne Staacke
Ruby Jones
Laura Beavers
Tookie Walthall
Rosemarie Gregory
In honor of
Jeannette Phinney
Gaylon E. Bohon
In honor of
DRT Library Employees
Memorial Gifts:
Gifts in memory of Dr. Carlos Bazan, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Van Cleave & Sons
Mrs. Gloria X. Gregory
Virginia de la Zerda
Mr. & Mrs. Bob Cravy
In memory of Past Presidents General
Wanda Arnold and Mary Alice
O’Dowd
Gifts in memory of George Newton Perez
Laura Beavers
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Van Cleave
Joan Headley
Rosemarie Gregory
Patricia Edens Norton
In memory of Allison Cassens
Gifts in memory of Sally Cheever
Lillian Padgitt Morris
CeCe Cheever
Gifts in memory of Peggy Dotson Dibrell
Bruce & Allison Gates
Hal & Jeanette Atkinson
Joseph & Elizabeth Casseb
The McMurray Family
Marjorie Hardy
Spring/Summer 2005
Silber & Associates
Akin, Doherty, Klein & Feuge, P.C.
William & Mary Ann Hollingshead
Dorothy A. Eckert
Loa R. Straw
L.K. Groesbeeck
Richard Tinsman
Tinsman, Scott & Sciano, Inc.
Jo Beth Ward
Mary Carmack
Josephine C. & John H. Sherner
Dorothy Pennino
Mrs. Jane W. Adair
June Eubank
Dr. Jane Knapik
Dr. & Mrs. James W. Yancy
Anna H. Hartman
Joseph & Holly Dibrell
Mary E. Dibrell
Dr. Jane Knapik
In memory of David Richard Anderson
Laura T. Beavers
In memory of
Major General Kenneth D. Orr
Dr. Dick Penner
In memory of Roy L. and Anita Penner
Gifts in memory of Buella McManus
Mrs. Raymond M. Wood
Frances Brookshier
Rosemarie Gregory
Gifts in memory of Col. Louis E. Herrick
Neva G. Curoe
Rosemarie Gregory
Shirley Burnett
Anita D. Hamrick
Gifts in memory of Pat McKelvy
Patsy Edwards
Nell McFadin
Rosemarie Gregory
Sharon Wolff
Gifts in memory of Josephine Briggs
Claire Lillie
Rosemarie Gregory
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Texana Treasures Continued:
Gifts in memory of Charles J. Long
Ms. Amory Oliver
Dora Guerra
Sally Koch
Cecilia Steinfeldt
Judy Rowe Koehl
Frank, Sandra & Charles Hood
Laura Beavers
In memory of Vivian Rudisill
Rosemarie Gregory
In memory of
Floyd Edward “Pete” Bryant
Charles & Shari Jane Pugh Sits
In memory of
Lavonia Wigley Williams
Shirley Burnett
In memory of Katie Lou Mundine
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Harney
In memory of Benedict Bluntzer
and Travis Peeler
D. Harold & Roberta Byrd
In memory of Robert S. Morris
Joyce M. Berkebile
In memory of Pat Dahl
N. Janet James
In memory of
Lily May Morriss Overton
DRT Chapter Memorials:
Texas Star Chapter, DRT
In memory of Olga E. Jones Vaughn
Alamo Couriers Chapter, DRT
In memory of George Newton Perez
Jane Wells Woods Chapter, DRT
In memory of June Zimmerman
Ima Hogg Chapter, DRT
In memory of John Stansell
and James Frances
Robert Henry Chapter, DRT
In memory of Josephine Briggs
Frances Cooke Van Zandt Chapter,
DRT
In memory of Frances Clements Lapp,
Bertha Brown Knifong, Mrs. Rudene
Latham, and Camilla B. Thompson
Stenson-Simpson Chapter, DRT
In memory of Katie Lou Mundine
Welcome W. Chandler Chapter, DRT
In memory of Elzina Prigmore Welch
and Joe Frank Welch
DRT Chapter Honorary
Contributions:
Caddel-Smith Chapter, DRT
In honor of Pat McKelvy
New Kentucky Chapter, DRT
In honor of Alamo Heroes Day
DRT Library
Adopt-A-Journal Donations:
Naylor Award, and Jane Wilkinson Long,
Texas Pioneer by Neila Skinner Petrick
Phantom Dinner Fundraiser:
Enchanted Lion Books: The Alamo,
February 23-March 6, 1936 by Mark
Stewart (2 copies)
Frances Cooke Van Zandt Chapter
Stenson-Simpson Chapter, DRT
Janette Morgan
Betty Burr
Marilyn Thurman
Raymond M. Wood
June Franklin Naylor Acquisition
Fund:
Edward and Valerie Riefenstahl
In memory of June Franklin Naylor
Brett and Donald Kronenberger
In memory of June Franklin Naylor
Bearing Point Charitable Foundation
Matching gifts of Edward & Valerie
Riefenstahl
Grants:
The Ewing Halsell Foundation
DRT Native License Plate Fund
Joan and Herb Kelleher Charitable
Foundation
The Summerfield G. Roberts
Foundation
Major James A. Earl: The Newtons of
Bexar by James A. Earl
Climpson Clapp: Three Jumbo postcards;
miscellaneous photos; air view of San
Antonio, Texas; The Alamo
Jane Brough Benson: The Holmgreens
and the Alamo Iron Works by Jane Brough
Benson
Martha Utterback: Tales from the
Southwest Courtroom by James E. Barlow
Alain Billieres: La bataille de San
Jacinto by Alain Billieres
Oxford University Press: Sleuthing the
Alamo by James E. Crisp
Dan Gelo: Comanche vocabulary
In Kind Donations:
Lone Star Stories: The Story of the
Alamo by Bill Hughes
Material Donations:
Holiday House: A Picture Book of Davy
Crockett by David A. Adler
World Post Technologies
Amanda Hurst Ochse: An Immigrant
Miller Picks Texas: The Letters of Carl
Hilmar Guenther and The Family of Carl
Hilmar Guenther and Dorothea Pape
Guenther
Dorothy and Bill B. Dareing: The Pages
of Time : A History of the Steer-Dareing
Family, 1645-2003 by Bill B. Dareing,
given in memory of Dr. Carlos Bazan, Jr.
Sharon Moore Wolff: Tales of Bad Men,
Bad Women and Bad Places by C. F.
Eckhardt
Maverick Publishing : The Spanish
Acequias of San Antonio by I. Waynne
Cox (complimentary copy)
Bonnie (Jett) Miller: Memoirs of Mrs.
Ruth Clarinda (Kuykendall) Jett and
History of the Kuykendall Family by
George Benson Kuykendall
Carl Peterson: Now’s the Day and
Now’s the Hour by Carl Peterson
Adrienne and Jerome Weynand: San
Antonio College : In the Beginning, 19251956 by Jerome F. Weynand and A Texas
Pioneer by August Santleben
Heinemann Library: Cattle Trails and
Cowboys by Sally Senzell Isaacs (2
copies), winner of the 2004 June Franklin
Naylor Award
Pelican Publishing: Too Tall Thomas
Rides the Grub Line by James Rice,
Honorable Mention, 2004 June Franklin
Spring/Summer 2005
Alamo Mission Chapter: History of the
Alamo Mission Chapter of the Daughters
of the Republic of Texas by Beth Walker
Suzanne and Dwight Albert Sharpe: My
Earliest Ancestor: Felix Benedict Dixon by
Dwight Albert Sharpe
Center for Archaeological Research,
UTSA, San Antonio: Archaeological
Survey for the Proposed Salado Creek
Hike and Bike Trail, City of San Antonio,
Bexar County, Texas by Jason D. Weston,
et al.
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Texana Treasures Continued:
Elaine Milam Vetter, Historian General,
Daughters of the Republic of Texas,
Inc.: Jonathan Cochran Pool, Republic of
Texas Patriot, 1806-1886 by Mary Gail
Cowan Leming and A True Texas Family
by Rose Hill Ward (2005 Mamie Wynne
Cox Award)
Mr. & Mrs. Robert H. Thonhoff: Karnes
County: The First 150 Years, given in
memory of Mrs. Elodia G. Perez
Castro Colonies Heritage Association:
Tales Told and Retold: A Collection of
Fact, Fiction and Folklore by Castro
Colonies Heritage Association Folklore
Committee
Carl Peterson, Darach Recordings:
Scotland Remembers the Alamo (2 CD set)
by Carl Peterson
Dr. Bruce Winders: Texas Declaration of
Independence, facsimile print
Mrs. Jane Grubb Creel: Families of
Coryell County, Texas
Texas A&M University Press: New
Orleans and the Texas Revolution by
Edward L. Miller
San Antonio Country Club: A History of
the San Antonio Country Club, 1904-2004
by Carol S. Canty
Eleanor Harris: August Watkins Harris
papers, additions
Thelma Morgan: San Jacinto
Descendants Records, additions
Jack Jackson: White Comanche by Jack
Jackson
Dr. Marian Martinello: The Search for
Emma’s Story by Marion L. Martinello
with Ophelia Nidsen Weinheimer
Frances Pryor, Chairman, DRT Library
Committee: Sam Bass & Gang by Rick
Miller, Wooden Ships from Texas: A World
War I Saga by Richard W. Bricker, The
Roy Bedichek Family Letters selected by
Jane Gracy Bedichek, Big Ben Country:
Land of the Unexpected by Kenneth
Ragsdale, Alamo Heights by Scott Zesch,
DRT Library
The Texas Overland Expedition of 1863 by
Richard Lowe, Border Conflict: Villistas,
Carrancistas and the Punitive Expedition,
1915-1920 by Joseph A. Stout, Jr., Travels
with Joe: The Life Story of a Historian
from Texas, 1917-1993 by David G.
McComb, The Texas Red River Country:
The Official Surveys of the Headwaters,
1876 by T. Lindsay Baker, Captain L.H.
McNelly – Texas Ranger: The Life and
Times of a Fighting Man by Chuck
Parsons and Marianne E. Hall Little, A
Light in the Prairie: Temple Emanu-El of
Dallas 1872-1997 by Gerry Cristol,
Fugitives from Justice: A Notebook of
Texas Ranger Sergeant James B. Gillett by
James B. Gillett, Between the Cracks of
History: Essays on Teaching and
Illustrating Folklore by Francis E.
Abernethy, The 50 + Best Books on Texas
by A.C. Green, The Legend Begins: The
Texas Rangers, 1823-1845 by Frederick
Wilkins, Giant Country: Essays on Texas
by Don Graham, A Breed so Rare: The
Life of J.R. Parten, Liberal Texas Oil Man,
1896-1992 by Don E. Carleton and Billy
Rose Presents…Casa Manana by Jan
Jones
Robert H. Thonhoff: Panna Maria
Sesquicentennial, December 11th
Anniversary Program
Joe Carroll Rust: Historic Bexar County:
An Illustrated History by Joe Carroll Rust
(complimentary copy)
Laura Maverick Graves Avery: The
Memoirs of Mary Maverick
Vince Phillips: The TXWOCO, 1927 and
The Daedalian, 1934
Ricky Groos: Fred C. Groos memoir,
miscellaneous photocopies
Allen G. Hatley: The First Texas Legion
by Allen G. Hatley
Dr. Félix D. Almaráz, Jr.: Tejano Epic:
Essays in Honor of Felix D. Almaraz, Jr.
Ed Atwood: The Edward Steves Family:
A Study in Historical Perspective by E.W.
Atwood
Ned Anthony Huthmacher: One
Domingo Morning: The Story of Alamo
Joe by Ned Anthony Huthmacher
Spring/Summer 2005
Oxford University Press: Sleuthing the
Alamo by James E. Crisp (Complimentary
Copy)
Dr. Mavis Kelsey, Sr.: Engraved prints
of Texas, 1554-1900 by Mavis P. Kelsey,
Sr. and Robin Brandt Hutchison
(complimentary copy)
Ira Lott: Six Historical “Colored
People’s” Cemeteries in San Antonio,
Texas
A first grade student from Keystone School
in San Antonio takes his first look through
a stereopticon.
Fred and Elaine Davis: MexicanAmerican War (500 microfiche) and How
to Draw Texas’s Sights and Symbols by
Aileen Weintraub
Dr. Byron Howard: Physicians Caring
for Texans since 1853, copies 1 & 2, Texas
Medicine, copies 1 & 2, by Texas Medical
Association, given in honor of Helen
Burleson Kelso
Dora Elizondo Guerra: Now Hiring and
Styling Jim Crow both by Julia Kirk
Blackwelder
Helen Burleson Kelso: A Journey
through Texas by Frederic Law Olmsted
George Farias, Borderlands Bookstore:
The Mexican Republic: The First Decade
1823-1832 by Stanley C. Green
Ben Milam Chapter, DRT, Temple,
Texas: A Proud Heritage: History of the
Ben Milam DRT Chapter and Stories of
our Patriot Ancestors
Dr. Brooks D. Anderson, II: San
Antonio Downtown (2005 in-depth guide)
by Brooks D. Anderson, II (complimentary
copy)
DRT Headquarters: Founders and
Patriots of the Republic of Texas Book VII
by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas
(2 copies)
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Texana Treasures Continued:
Bright Sky Press: Assault: The Crippled
Champion by Marjorie Hodgson Parker,
Honorable mention, 2004 June Franklin
Naylor Award
Henry Holt: My Father’s Summers: A
Daughter’s Memoir by Kathi Appelt, and
The Truth About Sparrows by Marian
Hale, Nominees for 2004 June Franklin
Naylor Award
Donald E. Child: Mayflower
Descendants in the State of Texas and their
Lineages, Volumes III and IV
Amandina Galan Sifuentes:
Descendants of Tomas Galan
Lois E. Welch, Chaplain General, DRT:
Deceased Member Report 2003-2004 and
Deceased Member Report 2004-2005
Martha Utterback: From a Watery
Grave by James E. Bruseth and Toni P.
Turner; Art Lives in West Texas by Conny
McDonald Martin, both given in memory
of Charles J. Long
Olive Brewster: Photograph, Bonham
School, Grade 6, ca. 1900
Carl Lasher: Study Pursuant to PL 89284 (Hemisfair)
Thelma Morgan: San Jacinto
Descendants records (photocopies)
Osprey Publishing: The Texas War of
Independence 1835-1836 by Alan C.
Huffines (complimentary copy)
William Conaway, Jr.: The Battle of San
Jacinto by Major-General Sam Houston
with Col. Pedro Delgado and The Alamo:
The Cradle of Texas Liberty with a
Description of San Antonio by Jonathan
Bowman
Shelly Smith Harrell: Battle of Flowers
Poster by Shelly Smith Harrell
Jeffrey & Jerilyn Blanchard: Moses Lee
(1817-71) and His Family by Cooper K.
Ragan
Sally Senzell Isaacs: Picture the Past:
Life at the Alamo by Sally Senzell Isaacs
Sue Snyder: Gifford E. White papers
Jean Sitterle: Daughters of the Republic
of Texas Handbook for Members-at-large
Sally Senzell Isaacs autographs books at
the DRT Convention in Midland.
Personnel News:
Debra Bryant joined
the staff in January as
part-time reference
librarian. Debra is
proficient in French and
Spanish.
Assistant Director
Martha Utterback celebrated 25 years of
service with the library on June 30.
Librarian Leslie Stapleton attended the
University of North Texas Library
Buildings course, May 23-27.
Research assistant Amy Canon attended
the Society of Southwest Archivists’
Annual Conference in Baton Rouge, May
24-27.
Archivist Warren Stricker gave the
presentation “The Changing Face of the
Alamo” to the Society of Mayflower
Descendants, the Sons of the Republic of
Texas, the Alamo Couriers Chapter, DRT,
and the employees at the Alamo.
Robert E. Hollmann: David Crockett by
Robert E. Hollmann, Nominee for 2005
June Franklin Naylor Award (two copies)
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DRT Chapters support Library’s
operating endowment
In September 2004, all DRT chapters were
invited to provide financial support for the
Library’s Parker Endowment Fund, which
provides money for general library operations,
by giving $100. Participating chapters received a
photographic print, suitable for framing, of the
Texas Declaration of Independence given to the
library in 1979 by New York Congressman
Hamilton Fish, Jr., in the name of his wife, Billy
Lasater Fish.
The Texas Star Chapter, Houston, led
all of the others with their donation of
$500. Chapters supporting this project
were:
Alamo Couriers Chapter, San Antonio
Alamo Heroes Chapter, San Antonio
Alamo Mission Chapter, San Antonio
Baron de Bastrop Chapter, Bastrop
Caddel-Smith Chapter, Uvalde
Charles Calvin McCoy Chapter,
Arlington
Charles S. Taylor Chapter, Dallas
Collin McKinney Chapter, Plano
Cradle of Texas Chapter, Freeport
Dr. Richard Fox Brenham Chapter,
Brenham
Dr. Wilhelm Keidel Chapter,
Fredericksburg
El Paso Rio Grande Chapter, El Paso
Ferdinand Lindheimber Chapter, New
Braunfels
Fort Boggy Chapter, Marquez
Frances Cooke Van Zandt Chapter,
Fort Worth
Franklin Hardin Chapter, Liberty
General James Smith Chapter, Lubbock
George Washington Stell Chapter, Paris
George Webb Slaughter Chapter,
Mineral Wells
James Bowie Chapter, Texarkana
James Butler Bonham Chapter, Dallas
John Floyd Gilbert Chapter, Livingston
John Tilley Edwards Chapter,
Longview
Judge Nathaniel Hart Davis Chapter,
Montgomery
Mary Ann Lawhon Chapter, Dallas
New Kentucky Chapter, SpringTomball
President Houston Chapter, Huntsville
Reuben Hornsby Chapter, Austin
San Jacinto Chapter, Houston
Seth Hurin Bates Chapter, Kingwood
Sidney Sherman Chapter, Galveston
Solomon Bostick Chapter, Sherman
St enson-Simpson Chapter, Rockport
Texana Chapter, Edna
Texas Star Chapter, Houston
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President General Mary Walker welcomes guests.
Past Presidents General Martha Rash, Gail Loving Barnes,
Virginia Gregory Van Cleave, Mary Kathryn Spiller Briggs,
and Tookie Walthall chat with Texas Secretary of State
Roger Williams, guest speaker, following the ceremony.
Artist George Nelson unveils two paintings
for the renovated Long Barrack exhibit.
114th Annual Convention ~ Midland, Texas ~May 11-13, 2005
Library Director Elaine Davis is shown at the library’s sales table where she visited with DRT members during the 114th
Annual Convention in Midland. Peggy Condron, Texana Chapter, DRT, Edna, purchased the framed print The Alamo
History Tree by Jane Felts Mauldin in the library’s silent auction. Not shown are LaDelle Zielinski, Abishai Mercer
Dickson Chapter, Seguin, who acquired the framed Maverick Declaration of Independence at silent auction, and Carol
Glover Nichols, Alamo Heroes Chapter, San Antonio, who won the silver star pendant.
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