Monday, October 26, 2015

Austin History Center Donation

It's been a long time since our last meeting.  The weather has changed to a cool, crisp and breezy time  and there is something brewing at the Homestead.

On October 14, 2015, my husband Brian and I made an official Donation to the Austin History Center to increase the data on the large John McCain and Martha Gault Family.  The Gault Family file now includes:
The Well Branch Homestead current brochure,
2010 Memo of a Gault Gathering at Wells Branch Homestead with a history of Split Rail Fence Quilt; also, pictures taken by Claudia Keith and my understanding of the event,
Chapter V of Book on Gault Family from the Revolutionary War;
A file on the Gault Slaves with a Nelson Merrill Account; mention Martha Mays slave to J. M. Gault;
The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame file on Manny Gault; information on James A. Sikes; 
Gault School of Archaeological Research letter, brochure, business card; 2014 Austin-American Statesman newspaper article of Gault Artifacts
 Pictures:
J.F. Gault 1818
W.A. Gault, MD
Thomas Smith Gault Family
Sons of Benjamin Taylor Gault
1900+ or- McNeil School Picture 1940
Edward Gault, owner of Owl Club

Processing Archivist, Molly Hults shared with us a new resource for research through the Austin-American Statesman  I found my grandfather Hayward Thompson, The Blindfold Wizard who demonstrated his strange skill in 1923 of driving blindfolded through the streets of Austin.

http://www.austinlibrary.com:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/hnpaustinamericanstatesman/?accountid=7451


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