Andrew Birdsall Briscoe family papers, 1851-1919.

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Andrew Birdsall Briscoe family papers, 1851-1919.

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Correspondence, financial documents, and printed materials document the family of Andrew Birdsall Briscoe. Correspondence received by Briscoe concerns business related to land held by the children of Andrew Briscoe or is from relatives. A letter from Mary to her parents reveals a homesick girl away at school. A letter written by Briscoe to his Cousin Lucie while stationed in northern Georgia in 1864 is a discourse on love, sentimentality, and marriage. Four letters received by Birdsall Parmenas Briscoe were written while he was on duty in France in World War I. The bulk of the envelopes, 23 of 25, were sent to Birdsall Parmenas and returned as undeliverable. Statements of account and receipts from Thomas R. Franklin, Dry Goods, in Houston comprise the bulk of the financial documents. Printed materials consist of an invitation and admission ticket to the K.K. Soiree in 1867.

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Briscoe, Andrew Birdsall, 1841-1912

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Andrew Birdsall Briscoe "Brits" was born in Harrisburg, Texas, in 1841, the second son of Andrew Briscoe and Mary Jane Harris. After his father's death in 1849, he lived with his mother and siblings for a time on his grandfather's plantation near Port Gibson, Mississippi. In 1852 Mary Jane and her children returned to Texas, living in Anderson, Galveston, and Harrisburg. During the Civil War, Briscoe saw action as a member of Terry's Texas Rangers. In 1871 he married Annie Payne and they had fou...

Windsor, Mary Payne Briscoe, b. 1874

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Briscoe, Birdsall Parmenas, 1876-1971

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Thomas R. Franklin Dry Goods

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