Box 2 - Texas History Collection  

T2-10      Hoadley, Irene B. [Evans Library] to Cynthia Rose [Santa Fe, NM].  June 16, 1992. Re:  Donation of Ava Johnson Cox collection.  TLS, 1 leaf, photocopy.

T2-10       Handwritten Inventory of Ava Johnson Cox Collection.   Dated June 1, 1992.

T2-20      Cox, Ava.  Autobiographical history of Ava Johnson Cox.  Dated August, 1988.  Johnson City, Texas.   Typed, 103 leaves in loose leaf notebook.  

T2-30      Resource Paper in Geography by Ava Johnson Cox.   "Pacific Northwest Summer Field Tour, July 18, to August 14, 1957".  S.W.S.T.C., San Marcos, Texas.   Typed, 42 leaves attached  to folder.  Included are maps, climate records, soil classifications, etc.

T2-40      Notebook #1. Handwritten notes on a steno pad by Ava Johnson Cox.  Contains recipes, folk sayings, etc.  Included is typed transcription.  

T2-50      Notebook #2.  Handwritten notes on a steno pad by Ava Johnson Cox.  Contains recipes, historical information on fabric dyes, planting by astrological signs, signs of winter, etc.  Included is typed transcription.  

T2-60      The Courier.  The National Park Service Newsletter,  Vol. 2, No. 6.  April, 1979.  Article on page 14, "LBJ's Sister" re: Ava Johnson Cox.

T2-70      "The Costs of Trailing a Herd to Market" excerpt from The Cattle Trailing Industry.  Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.  

T2-70      Col. Ike T. Pryor's Cattle Trailing Costs by Konrad Kelley, Jr.  Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.  

T2-70      "The Cost of Moving A Herd to Northern Markets" by Col. Ike T. Pryor of San Antonio.  Excerpt from The Trail Drivers of Texas.  1 leaf, photocopied from book.

T2-80      "Numbers of Cattle Driven to Market in the Great Trail Drives" excerpt from The Cattlemen and The Cowboys.  Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.

T2-80      "Cattle Trailed to Kansas and Other Points" excerpt from Cattle Trails of the Prairie.  Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.

T2-90      "Is This Man Tom Johnson Of Blanco and Gillespie Counties?" excerpt from The Trail Drivers of Texas.  Typed, 1 leaf, photocopied from book.

T2-90      "Record of Cattle Passing Caldwell, Kansas, Driven Over the  Old Chisolm Trail, for the Year 1872" excerpt from The Texas Almanac 1873.  Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.  

T2-90      "Corky Cox Introduced Lyndon Johnson During the 1938 Campaign"  historical notes from October 30, 1978.  

T2-100    United States Civil Service Commission Certificate of Training awarded to Ava Johnson Cox for the completion of Conversational Spanish by Correspondence.   Dated December 27, 1977.  

T2-100    United States Civil Service Commission Certificate of Training awarded to Ava J. Cox for the completion of Interpersonal Communications.  Dated January 4, 1978.

T2-110    Handwritten manuscript by Ava Johnson Cox re: Texas history. 1 spiral notebook.  Included is typed transcription.

T2-120    Pioneer Life of Women by Konrad Kelley, Jr.  July 2, 1979.  Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.  

T2-120    Pioneer Life of Young People by Konrad Kelley, Jr.   July 2, 1979.  Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.

T2-120    "Early Schools of Texas" essay written by Ava Johnson  Cox.  February 22, 1978.  Delivered at Interpreters Seminars LBJ NHS.  Typed, 8 leaves, photocopies.

T2-120    "Ex-Slaves Founded Peyton Colony" by Ava Johnson  Cox.  Typed, 5 leaves, photocopies.  

T2-130    "Horace M. Hall's Letters from Gillespie County" excerpt from Southern Historical Quarterly.  6 leaves, photocopied from book.  

T2-140    "Two Austin Women and the Chisolm Trail" article from The Cattleman.  November 1975.  4 leaves, photocopies.

T2-140    "Cattlemen's Wives on the Chisolm Trail, 1871 and After" by Konrad Kelley, Jr.  Typed, 2 leaves, photocopies.  

T2-150    "Johnson Cattle Drives 1870 to 1872" as Reported by Capt. and Hall.  By Konrad Kelley, Jr.  Typed, 2 leaves, photocopies.

T2-150    "Further Notes on the Size of the Johnson Cattle Drives"  by Konrad Kelley, Jr., Park Technician‑Oral History.  June 16, 1977.  Typed, 3 leaves, photocopies.  

T2-150    Various maps showing cattle trails.  7 leaves photocopied from different books.  

T2-160    "Cattle Drives from Blanco County, Johnson's and Others" excerpt from A History of Blanco County.   3 leaves, photocopied from book.

T2-160    Excerpt from Chapter 14 of Great American Cattle Trails by Harry Sinclair Drago.  Re: Women on the Cattle Trails.  3 leaves, photocopied from book.  

T2-170    Excerpt from Conquering Our Great American Plains by Stuart Henry.   Re:  Women on the Cattle Trails.  5 leaves, photocopied from book.  

T2-170    Hitching Poles Interviews by Ava Johnson Cox and Cynthia Ott re: hitching poles in Johnson City, Tx.  Typed, 5 leaves, with handwritten editing.

T2-180    House and Garden magazine.  January, 1983.  Article on page 126 "Lady Bird Johnson's Hidden Family Farmhouse" by Marybeth Weston.  

T2-190    Rinzler, Ralph [Smithsonian Institution, Office of Folklore Programs] to Cynthia Ott [Austin].  May 5, 1981.   TLS, 1 leaf.  

T2-190    Ellsworth, Gretchen Gayle [Smithsonian Institution, Director, Office of Fellowship and Grants] to Cynthia Ott [Austin].  April 16, 1981.  TLS, 1 leaf.

 T2-190   Carmack, Bonnie and George [San Antonio] to Ava Johnson Cox. No date. TLS, 1 leaf. 

T2-200    Caro, Ina Joan [Riverdale, NY] to Ava Johnson Cox.  October 19, 1978.  TLS, 1 leaf.  

T2-200    Corky Cox Introduced Lyndon Johnson During the 1937 Campaign by Konrad Kelley, Jr.  October 30, 1978.

Box 3   Texas History Collection  

T3-10      "Killing and Capturing Buffalo in Texas" by M.A. Withers of Lockhart, Texas.  Excerpt from The Trail Drivers of Texas.  1 leaf, photocopy from book.  

T3-10      "The Ozark Workshop, October 9-12, 1979, A Report by Park Interpreter Ava J. Cox."  Typed, 6 leaves, photocopies. (Included is an additional copy of this manuscript.).

T3-10      Brief resume of Ava Johnson Cox teaching career.  Typed, 1 leaf.  Attached are 5 leaves of handwritten notes.

T3-20      Manuscript of English class essay by Ava Johnson Cox.   Re: her history, life during post-turn-of-the-century Texas. Handwritten, 14 leaves.  Included is typed transcription.  

T3-30      Manuscript of English class essay titled "Character Sketch" by  Ava Johnson Cox.  Re: life during post-turn-of-the-century Texas.  Handwritten, 3 leaves.  Included is typed transcription.  

T3-40      Manuscript titled Indian Legend of the Texas Blue Bonnet by Ava Johnson Cox.  Handwritten, 6 leaves.  Included is typed transcription.  

T3-50      Two sheets of slide photos of Ava Johnson Cox.  In color, a total of 39 photos.

T3-60      A total of 16 photographs of Ava Johnson Cox.   8 are in color, 8 in black and white.  Various sizes.   Miscellaneous settings, such as in front of log cabins, etc.  

T3-70      A total of 8 photographs of various family members including her husband Ohlen Cox, son Corky Cox and cousin Lyndon B. Johnson.  One photo is of a log cabin.  All are in black and white.  Various sizes.  

T3-80      Manuscript, probably for a speech, "The First Junction Schoolhouse."   Handwritten, 1 leaf.  Included is typed transcription.

T3-80      Manuscript, probably for a speech, "Legal Description and Chain of Title, Second Junction School."   Handwritten, 2 leaves.  Included is typed transcription.  

T3-80      Manuscript, probably for a speech, re: education's role in the history of Texas's Independence.   Handwritten, 2 leaves.  Included is typed transcription.

T3-81      Manuscript of English class essay by Ava Johnson Cox, titled "Stealing."   Re:  childhood pranks in post turn of the century Texas.  Handwritten, 3 leaves. Included is typed transcription.

T3-90      Poem "Kindness During Life" by Ava Cox's mother.   Handwritten, 1 leaf.  Included is typed transcription.

T3-90      Manuscript by Ava Johnson Cox "Fun of Being Sick."   Handwritten, 5 leaves.  Included is typed transcription.

T3-100    Manuscript of English essay by Ava Johnson Cox re: political betrayals.  Dated January 13, 1948.Handwritten, 3 leaves.  Included is typed transcription.  

T3-100    Manuscript, probably of a speech, by Ava Johnson Cox, "My First Impression of Death."  Handwritten, 3 leaves. Included is typed transcription.

T3-110    Webb, Melody [United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service] to Cynthia Rose [Santa Fe, NM].  January 22, 1992.  Re: a film documentary "Miss Ava."   TLS, 1 leaf, with original envelope.  Included are two photocopies of this letter.  

T3-120    Johnson, Lady Bird [Stonewall, Texas] to Ava Cox.  May 24, 1983.  TLS, 1 leaf.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-120    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Pastermack [Las Cruces, NM].  September 26, 1983.  ALS, 1 leaf.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-120    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Pastermack [Las Cruces, NM].  January 23, 1984.  ALS, 2 leaves.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-130    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Pastermack [Las Cruces, NM].  September 29, 1983.   ALS, 3 leaves.  Attached is original envelope and newspaper clipping "Happy Day, LBJ."  

T3-130    Waugh, Sr., H.J. & Gene [Austin, TX] to Ava Cox [Johnson City].  September 5, 1983.  ALS, 1 leaf.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-130    Cox, Ava [Johnson City] to Cynthia Ott [Austin, TX].  April 7, 1981.  ALS, 2 leaves.  Attached is original envelope.   

T3-140    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Pastermack [Las Cruces, NM].  September 12, 1983.  ALS, 4 leaves.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-140    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Ott [College Station, TX]. September 11, 1980.   ALS, 7 leaves.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-140    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Ott [Bryan, TX].  February 7, 1980.  ALS, 4 leaves.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-150    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Ott [College Station, TX]. May 2, 1981.  ALS, 1 leaf.  Attached is original envelope and newspaper clipping "Rufus Perry Endures Arrows.  

T3-150    Cox, Ava to Mr. & Mrs. Gene Ott [College Station]. April 18, 1980.  ALS, 1 leaf.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-150    Cox, Ava to Mr. & Mrs. Gene Ott [College Station]. April 11, 1980.  ALS, 2 leaves.  Attached is original envelope. 

T3-160    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Ott [Austin]. April 2, 1991.  ALS, 1 leaf. Attached is original envelope.  

T3-160    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Ott [College Station]. May 27, 1980.   ALS, 1 leaf.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-160    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Ott [Austin]. June 20, 1981.  ALS, 1 leaf, ALS.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-170    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Higginbotham [College  Station].  April 16, 1992.   ALS, 1 leaf.  Attached is original envelope and legal document "Articles of Dissolution" for The Hill County School of Folk Arts, Inc.  

T3-170    Cox, Ava to Cynthia Ott [College Station].  September 13, 1979.  ALS, 4 leaves.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-170    Calvert, Bob [TAMU, College Station] to Ms. Ott [Johnson City].  June 26, 1979.  ALS, 1 leaf.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-180    Cox, Ava [Johnson City] to Cynthia Rose [Austin].  November 4, 1986.  ALS, 1 leaf.  Attached is original envelope.  

T3-180    Cox, Ava to Gene and Cynthia Ott [College Station].  January 14, 1980.   ALS, 3 leaves.  Attached is original envelope and two photocopies of this letter.  

T3-180    Cox, Ava [Johnson Settlement] to Cynthia Ott [College Station].   September 2, 1979.  ALS, 2 leaves.   Attached is original envelope.  

T3-190    Cox, Ava to Cynthia.  No date.  ALS, 1 leaf.  

T3-190    Cox, Ava to Cynthia.  No date.  ALS, 1 leaf.  

T3-190    Cox, Ava to Cynthia.  Dated Tuesday, 8th, 1982.  ALS, 1 leaf.

T3-200    Cox, Ava to Cynthia.  March 29, 1982.  ALS, 1 leaf.  

T3-200    Cox, Ava to Cynthia.  August 30, 1989.  ALS, 3 leaves.

T3-200    Cox, Ava to Cynthia.  No date.  ALS, 1 leaf.  

T3-210    Cox, Ava to Cynthia.  Dated Thursday evening.  ALS, 1 leaf.

 T3-210   Cox, Ava to Cynthia.  Dated Wed. A.M.  ALS, 2 leaves.  

T3-210    Cox, Ava to Cynthia.  Dated Tuesday A.M. 10:30.  ALS, 2 leaves.

T3-220    Cox, Ava [Johnson City] to Cynthia.  September 22, 1979.   ALS, 1 leaf.  

T3-220     Five various envelopes addressed to Cynthia from Ava Cox.

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "Mr. Jack parked his wagon along with the horses" by Catherine Jones and Hattie Coffee.

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection. "Handwork and needlework".

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "Johnson years time of change, Great social progress clouded by promises unfulfilled" by Vaughn David Bornet.

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "Johnson decides against seeking another term" by Vaughn Davis Bornet.  

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "John Jackson commands respect" by Catherine Jones and Hattie Coffee.  

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "National State Parks Mark LBJ's 75th Anniversary".  

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "Goats, sheep introduced by Spanish" from Austin American Statesman, by Jack Maguire.

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "Goose cooks up trouble for Grayson County." by Jack Maguire. 1983.  

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "Sharp mind puts Eisenhower in Denison" by Jack Maguire. 1983.  

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "Kennedy causes taken up by Lyndon Johnson" by Vaughn Davis Bornet.  From Austin-American Statesman. November 25, 1983.  

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "LBJ leap into Vietnam made without a look at options" by Vaughn Davis Bornet.  From Austin American Statesman.  November 26, 1983.  

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "The Texas mood and that existing in nation's capital" by Francis X. Clines.  From Houston Chronicle, May 8, 1980.

T3-230    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  "Women on the Frontier" by Peter S. Prescott.  From Newsweek, March 16, 1981.

 T3-240   Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  Record Courier, May 3, 1984.  Headlines: "May 3 is Ava Johnson Cox and Kittie Clyde Ross Leonard Day."  

T3-240    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  San Antonio Express-News, November 25, 1978.  "LBJ Country, Texas' most appealing countryside visited."  2 copies.  

T3-240    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  Supplement to Ranchland Post Dispatch.  No date. "The First One Hundred Years, A self portrait of Johnson City."  2  copies.  

T3-240    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  Austin-American Statesman, article:  "Village smithy lives under the spreading live oak" by Mike Cox.  

T3-240    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  Ranchland Post Dispatch, Johnson City, Texas.  June 28, 1979.  Headline: "Past present in Ava."  

T3-240    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  Advertising supplement to Ranchland Post Dispatch, Centennial Issue. "Blanco County History" by John  Stribling Moursund.  

T3-240    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  Newspaper "Miracle at Medjugorje." July, 1987.

T3-240    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  The Record Courier, Johnson City, Texas.  November 5,  1981. Front page showing photo of Ava Cox talking to children of Blanco County history.  

T3-240    Newspaper clipping from the Ava Johnson Cox Collection.  Supplement to Houston Chronicle.  July 5, 1978. "The legacy of LBJ's land...".  

Box 4     Texas History Collection  

T4-10      Oral history interview on audio cassette.  Ava Cox, 1979.  Tape #1.  Included is typed transcription.   

T4-20      Oral history interview on audio cassette.  Ava Cox, 1979.  Tape #2.  Included is typed transcription.  

T4-30      Oral history interview on audio cassette.  Visit with Cynthia Ott and Luke Savisky (Photographer).  June 17, 1981.  Included is typed transcription.  

T4-40      Oral history interview on audio cassette.  Ava Cox, Childhood,   September 6, 1981.  Included is typed transcription.  

T4-50      Oral history interview on audio cassette.  Ava Cox, Christmas, December 1982.  Included is typed transcription.  

T4-60      Oral history interview on audio cassette.  Ava Cox, Births and Deaths in Blanco County, September 6, 1984.  Included is typed transcription.      

Box 5   Texas History Collection  

T5-10      Oral history interview on audio cassette.  Ava Cox, Teaching Reading to Colt Petri.  August 7, 1984, in her home.  Included is typed transcription.

T5-20      Oral history interview on audio cassette.   Ava Cox, Childhood (Breakfast) August 6, 1984.  Included is typed  transcription.

T5-30      Oral history interview on audio cassette.  Ava Cox, Childhood, August 6, 1984.  Included is typed transcription.

T5-40      Oral history interview on audio cassette.   Ava Cox, Settlement Site, November 16, 1986.   Included is typed transcription.

T5-50      Oral history interview on audio cassette. Ava Cox, Ava's Ranch at Hayes, Blanco and Travis Counties Corner.  Included is typed transcription.

T5-60      Oral history interview on audio cassette.  Ava Cox, Stubbs Horse Race, no date.  Included is typed transcription.