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the altar Guild ever since the 20's and I am still doing that. And, in the early days, of course we didn't have near as many services as we do now and the -- I said we miss Mary Palms and we have lived with-lr. and Mrs. Lee was the main one about the altar Guild and she told everybody what to do and so forth and I helped her. Later on -- and oh, Ms. Virginia McLaughflin was also active with us, and then we didn't buy flowers, we went around and cut flowers out of people's yard or they would tell us we could have them for service on Sunday. There wasn't any purchase of flowers or anything like that and later one different ones joined the altar Guild. It is just wonderful that there are so many. Of course, I don't remember any -- very few dates. I mean, that way, but it was many, many years before we even had a little parish house there separate from the church and Mr. Bartholomew made that possible for us to get it -- buy it and help -- I should say, they called it for a long time the Bartholomew House and it served many purposes and the Young People's Service League, of which my youngest sister was very active in, oh they had plays and things like that there. They were coached by Israel Fogdon and then of course later on they bought the property and I think it was 1965 when we built something -- a real addition. I don't know what else you want. Dougherty: Who married you there? Thomson: Uh? Dougherty: Who married you? Which? Thomson: Beverly Boyd. Dougherty: What was Austin like when you were young? What schools did you go to? Thomson: I don't know what to say about that. We just did everything. Anything and everything. It was just a small town that we all grew up in. Dougherty: You knew everybody?. Thomson: Knew everybody. Dougherty: What school did you go to? Thomson: Uh? Dougherty: What school did you go to?
Dougherty, Mary Ann & Thomson, Margaret Drake.Oral History Interview with Margaret (Peggy) Drake Thomson, April 16, 1984,
text,
April 16, 1984;
Austin, Texas.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth201199/m1/2/:
accessed April 23, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting St. David’s Episcopal Church.
