Griffitts (Nellie) AutographBook 1895-1898

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Griffitts (Nellie) AutographBook 1895-1898

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The Nellie Griffitts Autograph Book,1895-1898, contains poems, notes, and signatures from family, friends, teachers, andother acquaintances to Nellie M. Griffitts of Colquitt, Texas. A notable signatureis that of fourteen-year-old Sam Rayburn in April 1896, belonging to a poem to MissGriffitts.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn was born on January 6, 1882, in a rural area of Roane County, Tennessee. At age five, Rayburn, along with his parents and nine siblings, moved to a forty-acre cotton farm in Flag Springs, Texas. One more child was born after the move to Texas, and every member of the family had to do their share to make the farm profitable. Rayburn's interest in government coincided with the family's move, and it has been suggested that his curiosity intensified due to the "great golden...

Griffitts, Nellie M.

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Nellie M. Griffitts lived in Colquitt, Texas, around the turn of the 20th century. From the guide to the Griffitts (Nellie) Autograph Book 2010-112., 1895-1898, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) ...