Slaughter, Allie D. (Alice Donohoo), Papers, 1891-1947 and undated

Creator: Slaughter, Allie D. (Alice Donohoo)

Collection #: S 928.1

Language: English

Biographical Sketch

Daugher-in-law of C. C. Slaughter, Alice Louise Donohoo (Allie D.) was the wife of George Morgan Slaughter, with whom she had three children.

Born in 1837 in Sabine County, Texas, Christopher Columbus (C. C.) established a frontier ranch in Palo Pinto County, Texas, in 1857 with his father, George Webb Slaughter, and his brothers. During the Civil War, C. C. served in the frontier militia and in the Texas Rangers. Afterwards, he drove cattle over the Chisholm Trail and later moved operations to West Texas where, by 1905, he owned 40,000 cattle and controlled over one million acres. Before his death in 1919, he had founded the American National Bank of Dallas (1884), and confounded the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (1877), the Texas Baptist Education Commission (1897) and the Baylor Hospital of Dallas, Texas (1904).

Scope and Contents

The collection concerns Slaughter estate matters, including Allie's children inheritance, correspondence from her grandsons, and her correspondence after the death of George M. Slaughter. Also includes scrapbook material, news clippings, and memorabilia.

Access Restrictions

Open for Research

Related Material

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:

++Ira Byrd oral history interview [sound recording], 1969

++Hiley Thompson Boyd, Jr. oral history interview [sound recording], 1970

++Nettie Hyatt and Joe Bridges oral history interview [sound recording], 1975

++Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jennings oral history interview [sound recording], 1973

++Mrs. M. C. Linsey oral history interview [sound recording], 1975

++Lynn County (Tex.), Photographs, 1900-1950

++Ralph McWhorter oral history interview [sound recording], 1979

++Mrs. J. F. Reeves oral history interview [sound recording], 1970s

++Jot Smyth oral history interview [sound recording], 1959

Preferred Citation

Allie D. Slaughter Papers, 1891-1947 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Accession Information

Gift, 1976

Processing Information

Abel Ramirez, 2000

Additional Sources

++Murrah, David J. "C. C. Slaughter, Rancher, Banker, Baptist." Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981

++Murrah, David J. "A Cattle Kingdom on Texas' Last Frontier: C. C. Slaughter's Lazy S Ranch." Thesis (M. A.)--Texas Tech University, 1970.

Collection Inventory

Box #1

Manuscript Files

• Folder 1, Correspondence: George M. Slaughter III, 1941-1946
• Folder 2, Correspondence: Personal - Don Slaughter, 1944-1945
• Folder 3, Correspondence: Personal - Miscellaneous, 1945
• Folder 4, Correspondence: Business, 1906-1921
• Folder 5, Financial Doucments, 1891-1945
• Folder 6, Legal Documents, 1920
• Folder 7, Newspaper clippings, 1942-1947
• Folder 8, Printed Material, 1904-1941
• Folder 9, Scrapbook, 1937-1947
• Folder 10, Scrapbook Material, 1898-1947 and undated
• Folder 11, Memorabilia - Writing tools and dice, undated