A Guide to the Nettie Barrell Doscher More Papers, 1895-1982.

Biographical Note

Journalist Nettie Barrell Doscher More (1922-1990), daughter of Maynette Shearn and Jurgen Henry Doscher, was born in Houston, Texas. After graduating from The Hockaday School in Dallas (1939), she married John Gresham More, with whom she had one daughter, Maynette Shearn More. She wrote weekly articles published in the Austin Citizen about REACT, a volunteer community organization that provides emergency assistance to the community through CB radio communication.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, postcards, scrapbooks, and photographs compose the Nettie Barrell Doscher More Papers, 1895-1982, documenting More’s life and the history of the Doscher and Shearn families of Houston, Texas. Letters to More from family members, a grade school scrapbook, and a correspondence with Cadet Rolfe Jones (1939) shed light on More’s youth. Numerous scrapbooks document Maynette Shearn’s college years (1915-1916) and the Shearn family from the late 19th century to World War II. Photographs depict members of the Doscher and Shearn families. Newspaper articles written by More describe the weekly achievements of REACT, an Austin community organization of CB radio emergency responders. The collection also includes postcards, and an abstract of title (1906) for a lot of land in the town of Sweetwater, Texas.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Nettie Barrell Doscher More Papers, 1895-1982, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

Detailed Description of the Papers