Typescript manuscript of Jesse Sumpter's memoir, as dictated to Harry Warren. The memoir describes Sumpter's experiences in the Mexican War, and as one of the first settlers of Eagle Pass, Texas. Warren was an amateur historian, and deposited copies of the manuscript at several libraries, including the University of Texas in Austin. The memoir was edited and annotated by Ben E. Pingenot for the Encino Press in 1969, and published under the title "Paso Del Aguila: a Chronicle of Frontier Days on the Texas Border."

Typed manuscript by R.L. Cartwright, "The Earliest American History of Texas," 1931.

Typescript copy of original manuscript memoirs by John Beldon Billingsley (1830-1904).

Typescript manuscript of the Autobiography of Andrew Davis (1827-1906).

"The Saga of Our Ancestry: Being a Series of Sketches o the Lives of Pioneer Texans, Written for the Information and Pleasure of their Descendants by Maud Boyce Farrar, Waxahachie, Texas, 1934."

Contents:

1. Rebecca Horton Boyce
2. Mahaly, the slave woman
3. Little Dog Penny
4. The Aldredge Family
5. Elizabeth Aldredge Boyce
6. W.A. Boyce
7. Nancy Owen Smith
8. Hans Smith
9. Lelia Smith Farrar
10. Education of Her Children
11. S.B. Farrar
12. Genealogical Tables