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[Criminal Minutes, District Court, Cooke County, 1886-1893]

Description: Ledger from Cooke County, Texas containing the minutes of district court cases. Recorded information is listed by case name and number and includes the trial date and notes on the case.
Date: 1886/1893
Creator: Cooke County (Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Executions Docket, County Court, Cooke County, 1876-1927]

Description: Docket from Cooke County, Texas containing records of executions between July 1876 and December 1927, including names of those executed, dates of judgement and execution, fees owed, and notes on the receipt of fees and return of personal items. There is also an alphabetical listing of court cases and the pages they appear on at the front of the book.
Date: 1876/1927
Creator: Cooke County (Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Pauper Record, Cooke County, 1895-1905]

Description: Ledger from Cooke County, Texas containing a register of allowances for paupers. Recorded information includes names, amount allowed, term, and date issued.
Date: 1895/1905
Creator: Cooke County (Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Sheriff's Fee Book, Cooke County, 1873-1874]

Description: Ledger from Cooke County, Texas, containing a list of fees owed to the sheriff. Information typically includes the service rendered, the indebted party, whether or not the fee was paid, and the amount due.
Date: January 23, 1873
Creator: Cooke County (Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jail Register, Cooke County, 1897-1910]

Description: Ledger from Cooke County, Texas containing a record of prisoners confined in the county jail. Recorded information includes names, age, physical descriptions, dates of confinement, fines, offenses, and names of jailer. The ledger also contains a letter from Cook County Judge J. M. Wright, dated June 21, 1904, regarding his decision in the case of the State of Texas v. [Benye Bawden]. See entry 42 on page 98 of this ledger for more information on the defendant.
Date: 1897/1910
Creator: Cooke County (Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letters of Rev. Dr. Thomas McHutchin Cunningham]

Description: The Rev. Dr. Thomas McHutchin Cunningham (March 22, 1887 - March 3, 1979) wrote these letters to family members from April 14, 1918 to November 28, 1927. The letters detail his life as a minister in Texas and other locations. The letters are written from Stamford, Spur, Eliasville, Sherman, Gainesville, Orange, Boston (Mass.), Richmond (Va.), and Knoxville (Tn.). The letters detail church news, family life, and travel on the S.S. Leviaton in 1927 to visit London, Paris, and Jerusalem.
Date: 1918
Creator: Cunningham, Thomas McHutchin
Partner: Other

Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Cooke County

Description: Directory of the men and women from Cooke County, Texas who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Each person's entry contains their photo, a short biography, and where they served.
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries

Comfort Women in Comfort History

Description: Book about the history of notable women in Comfort, Texas. The book discusses female school teachers, journalists, religious leaders, free thinkers, artists, authors, and other women who made significant contributions to the establishment of the city of Comfort.
Date: 2008
Creator: Stewart, Mike & Stewart, Anne
Partner: Anne and Mike Stewart Collection

Backwoods to Border

Description: Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1943
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

Legends of Texas

Description: Collection of popular Texas legends, including tales about buried treasure, the supernatural, pirates, origins of Texas flowers, and other miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 271.
Date: 1984
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

Oral History Interview with Urban J. Endres, April 4, 1984

Description: Interview with Urban J. Endres, a businessman from Muenster, Texas, about the period of prohibition of alcohol and bootlegging in the United States, his memories of the local option election of 1959, and his experience establishing his own beer distributorship.
Date: April 4, 1984
Creator: McDaniel, Robert Wayne & Endres, Urban J.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with C. S. Turbeville, June 17, 1981

Description: Interview with C. S. Turbeville, one of the founders of Bomber Bait Company in Gainesville, Texas, regarding his family background, upbringing on the farm, connection to business and the stores his family owned, research and testing of baits, fishing tournaments, and involvement in the Chamber of Commerce. (appliance store)
Date: July 17, 1981
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Turbeville, Clarence S.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Ike Walker, September 16, 1981

Description: Transcript of an interview with Ike Walker, one of the founders of Bomber Bait Company in Gainesville, Texas. Walker discusses his family background, his employment as a gasoline retailer and tire repair operator, and his interest in designing fish baits that led to the development of the Bomber Bait Company with Clarence Turbeville in 1945.
Date: September 16, 1981
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Walker, Ike
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Clarence S. Turbeville, June 17, 1981

Description: Transcript of an interview with Clarence S. ("Turby") Turbeville, one of the founders of Bomber Bait Company in Gainesville, Texas. Turbeville discusses his family background, his employment by his father selling appliances, butane gas systems, and sporting goods in Gainesville in 1934, the sale of the butane business in 1944, experimentation with fish baits, and his partnership with Ike Walker in founding Bomber Bait Company. At the end of the interview, a one-page leaflet is inserted that de… more
Date: June 17, 1981
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd & Turbeville, Clarence S.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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