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Description of Series
Inventory
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A Guide to the Lawhon Family Papers, 1832-1959
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Creator: |
Lawhon Family |
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Title: |
Lawhon Family
Papers |
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Dates: |
1832-1959 |
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Abstract: |
Photocopied articles,
pamphlets and notes, newspapers and newspaper clippings document the history of
the Lawhon and Gardner families, particularly the life of Marmaduke Gardner and
the origins of the Universalist Church in Texas. |
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Accession No.: |
65-33; 67-112; 71-62; 72-114 |
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Extent: |
2 inches |
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Language: |
Materials
are written in English. |
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Repository: |
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin |
David E. Lawhon (1811-1884) was born in
Tennessee, then moved to Texas from Louisiana in 1835 with his brother, Dr.
John C. Lawhon. David Lawhon was a soldier, judge and printer. He published the
Nacogdoches newspaper Texian and Emigrant’s Guide
from 1835 to 1836, as well as war proclamations and legal blanks. After the
Texas Revolution, he married Nancy Carr, and they had six children.
Marmaduke Gardner (1812-1879) was a pioneer Universalist minister in
Texas. Born in South Carolina, he moved to Texas in 1854 and subsequently
organized the first Universalist Society in Texas at Smith Springs, now Lawhon
Springs.
David Lawhon’s son, John Carr Lawhon, married Marmaduke
Gardner’s daughter, Ellen, in 1868. John Carr Lawhon was ordained as a
Universalist minister by Gardner in 1878.
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Photocopied articles, pamphlets and
notes, newspapers and newspaper clippings document the history of the Lawhon
and Gardner families, particularly the life of Marmaduke Gardner and the
origins of the Universalist Church in Texas. Portions of the articles and
clippings pertain to David E. Lawhon, Nancy Carr Lawhon, John Carr Lawhon, and
Ellen Gardner Lawhon. The collection also contains an original 1877 bill of
sale for cattle signed by John C. Lawhon and an 1832 scripture commentary book
owned by David E. Lawhon.
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Access Restrictions
Unrestricted access.
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Subjects (Persons) |
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Lawhon, David E., 1811-1884 |
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Gardner, Marmaduke,
1812-1879 |
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Lawhon Family Papers, 1832-1959, Center
for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.
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"Memorandum book with copies of sermons of the Reverend
Marmaduke Gardner (1812-1879), Pioneer Universalist Minister in Texas,"
photocopies, 1852-1857 |
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Photocopies of scrapbook articles: |
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Clippings regarding Gardner, Lawhon and Carr family
history |
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Poems |
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“The Texas Volunteers,” Nacogdoches,
November 1, 1835 |
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“New Yankee Doodle,” printed by David E. Lawhon,
Nacogdoches,
undated |
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Clipping of article: “Universalism in Texas,” photocopy,
from The Christian Leader, publication of the
Universalist Fellowship,
October 22, 1838 |
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Pamphlet: "The Universalist Church and Texas," photocopy,
by Stanley Manning,
circa 1923 |
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Selected pages from “Family Annals of the Lawhon-Gardner
Family,” by Mrs. Martin J. Lide, Jr., photocopy |
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Book: The Daily Scripture
Commentary. New York: Francis S. Wiggins, 1832. “A family relic taken
from the library of D. E. Lawhon by J. C. Lawhon this December 31, 1879.” Book
also signed by Sam Lawhon, Elgin, Texas, December 19, 1914. |
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Bill of sale for cattle, J. C. Lawhon,
December 24, 1877 |
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Newspapers |
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Universalist Herald,
Notasulga, Alabama; Columbia, South Carolina; and Atlanta, Georgia |
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July 1, 1877 |
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September 1, 1878 |
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June 15, 1879 |
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January 15, 1884 |
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April 15, 1884 |
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June 1, 1918 |
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The Arkansas Pilot,
(Universalist), Little Rock, Arkansas,
October 1907 |
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Newspaper clippings |
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Political advertisement, W. H. Joiner,
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Marmaduke Gardner and David E. Lawhon,
undated |
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Obituaries |
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Thomas J. Lawhon,
1932 |
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John E. Lawhon,
1930 |
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Ned Lawhon, Elgin
Courier,
August 22, 1932 |
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Poems: “New Yankee Doodle” and “The Texas Volunteers,”
printed items, written in Nacogdoches by order of the Chairman of the Committee
of Vigilance and Safety,
November 1, 1835 |
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