Minor Lee Marston

Son of Rector (1937-1969), The Rev. Lee Marston

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I think my very first job was working for Sam Marvin as a water boy in the Peach Orchard. And I got paid a huge amount of money…$2 a day, and I only had to work from 7:00 to 5:30! So it was more money than I’d ever had in my life. And that’s $0.20 an hour…I can remember the first Sunday I’d been taught to tithe, and I had made… something like…$10, maybe $11, and I didn’t have any change, and I put a dollar in the collection plate. I felt a little funny because it wasn’t quite ten percent, but very close. Anyway, Uncle Payton, at the end of the service asked me about my first job and everything, and then he said, “And Minor Lee, how much money did you put in the plate?” Well, I was very chagrined because I hadn’t put quite ten percent. So I said, “Uncle Payton, I only put a dollar in.” Well, my father was standing there, and he started to laugh. Then he started to roar. And I didn’t know what in the world was going on. And after Uncle Tom had left, I said, “Daddy – what was so funny?” He said, “Minor Lee, you put more in the collection plate than Uncle Peyton did.”