Descriptive Summary
McCelvey, Martha Jane
McHenry, William P.
McCelvey-Calhoun-McHenry
Family Papers
1839-1978Materials
are in English
93-137
7 in.;
manuscript, photographs, and family
bible.
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin
The
McCelvey-Calhoun-McHenry Family Papers consist of correspondence, business and
financial documents, printed and genealogical materials, a family bible,
photographs, and newspaper clippings relating to the McCelvey, Calhoun, Ansley,
Hearst, Park, and McHenry families of Texas and South Carolina,
1839-1978.
Biographical NoteThe principal creators of this collections
are William P. McHenry (born in Mobile, Alabama; died in Hickory Creek, Texas,
1841-1887) and Martha Jane McCelvey (born in the Abbeville District, South
Carolina; died in Crockett, Texas, 1845-1917). McHenry joined the Confederate
States Army in 1861 and served in Company A, 2nd Texas Calvary along the Texas
border. He was discharged at the end of the war and signed an amnesty oath on
July 29, 1865.
William P. McHenry and Martha Jane McCelvey were married
on August 10, 1865 in a double ceremony with Martha's sister Elizabeth Anne,
who married John Ansley. McHenry and Ansley operated the Hickory Creek
Plantation thereafter. McHenry and McCelvey had nine children. The Ansley
family later moved to Portland, Oregon, where John Ansley worked in the
newspaper business.
A descendant of William P. McHenry and Martha Jane
McCelvey, identified as Mrs. S. J. Park, sponsored the launching of the S. S.
Thomas Eakins by the Houston Shipbuilding Corporation in 1944.
Scope and ContentsThe McCelvey-Calhoun-McHenry Family
Papers consist of correspondence, business and financial documents, printed and
genealogical materials, a family bible, photographs, and newspaper clippings
relating to the McCelvey, Calhoun, Ansley, Hearst, Park, and McHenry families
of Texas and South Carolina, 1839-1978. The bulk of the correspondence is
between William P. McHenry and Martha Jane (Miss Mattie) McCelvey prior to
their marriage in 1865, while McHenry was stationed on the Texas border with
Company A, 2nd Texas Calvary. The family bible chronicles their marriage in
1865 until the last entry in 1958. The business records relate to William P.
McHenry and his brother-in-law John Ansley.
A small portion of the
collection concerns the ships of the Houston Shipbuliding Corporation of
Houston, Texas, 1942-1945 and 1962.
Preferred CitationMcCelvey-Calhoun-McHenry Family Papers,
1839-1978, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Subjects (Persons)
McCelvey, Martha
Jane
McHenry, William
P.
Places
Hickory Creek
Plantation
Detailed Description of the Papers
Inventory
2.325/A91d
Correspondence
2.325/A91d
McCelvey Family and McHenry Family,
1839-1888, 1907-1917, 1945
2.325/A91d
Martha Jane McCelvey to William P. McHenry,
1860-1865
2.325/A91d
William P. McHenry to Martha Jane McCelvey,
1860-1865
2.325/A91d
Hickory Creek Plantation
2.325/A91d
Correspondence and business records, William P. McHenry
and John Ansley,
1865-1884
2.325/A91d
Envelopes
2.325/D13b
W.P. McHenry
2.325/D13b
Account with J.C. Wooters,
March-September 1869
2.325/D13b
Certificate naming W.P. McHenry Trustee of the Cedar
Point White School Community, No. 31, Houston County, Texas,
1877
2.325/D13b
Houston Shipbuildling Corporation
2.325/D13b
Lists of ships
2.325/D13b
Program for the launching of the S. S. McHenry, Austin,
Texas,
November 26, 1943
2.325/D13b
Program for the presentation of the Award of Merit by
the U. S. Maritime Commission,
November 1942
2.325/A91d
Ships, S. S. Thomas Eakins and S. S. Sam Houston,
1942-1962
3S49.1
Photographs
3S49.1
Three black and white photographs of the S. S. Thomas
Eakins, Houston Shipbuilding Corporation,
ca. 1942
4L881
Family bible
2.325/A91d
Genealogical information
2.325/A91d
Materials from the family bible
2.325/A91d
Family history documents