The Henry Jefferson Boltz family papers primarily consist of documents and photographs related to the personal and professional lives of the Boltz family. Henry Jefferson Boltz’s life history details his activities as an itinerant minister in North Louisiana for the Louisiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. This features his accounts of traveling and working in rural North Louisiana during the late 19th century. Also included are items related to Emma Dubose, the African-American housekeeper who worked for the Boltz family in Shreveport during the 1930s. The materials about memorial homes relate to the 1983 dedication of the Bannerman Memorial Home and the Rev. and Mrs. H. J. Boltz Memorial Home in Bossier City, Louisiana.