Thrift Photos
Evelyn & Mildred Thrift
1935
Mildred & Evelyn Thrift - 1948
d/o Spencer & Betty (Combs) Thrift
Nader Thrift
Sunada "Nader" Thrift tending to her flowers. When her brother Spencer died, she moved in with her widowed sister-in-law to help
rear the daughters Evelyn and Mildred. Nader and Betty lived north of Macclenny until the mid 1970's. Aunt Nader spent her life
taking care of others' young'uns including her younger siblings after their father Rufe was killed during the Baxter Rebellion. She
was an excellet fiddler in her youth and played for frolics.
Nader Thrift
Sunada "Nader" Thrift on the porch of her and Betty's home west of the Georgia Rd north of Macclenny. Aunt Nader was
unmarried. She had been proposed to by John "Red" Lauramore, but Mr. Lauramore jilted her and married her sister Minnie. If
there was ever any bitterness about this it was never seen; the sisters were close.
Sunada "Nader" Thrift
While caring for her sick mother and her younger siblings Minnie and Dan, she had the task of claiming and
burying the bullet-riddled body of her father Rufe. She was an observer of all that went on about her and was a generous fountain of
information about county history.
Spencer "Spence" Thrift (1895-1942)
Spencer "Spence" Thrift
L-R: Sunada "Nader" Thrift, Betty (Combs) Thrift, Spencer "Spence" Thrift
children, L-R: Mildred (Thrift) Howe, Evelyn (Thrift) Barber
photo made at Spence and Betty's house at Taylor about 1934
Willa Mae (Thrift) Bass
wife of Vernon Bass
Gary Barber & Dale Thrift - 1954
Thrift - Combs
L-R: Mildred (Thrift) Howe, Betty (Combs) Thrift, Lola (Combs) Croft-Royal-Dopson on Aunt
Betty's 80th birthday. Aunt Betty was among the world's greatest cooks. Thank the Lord she knew nothing of gourmet nouvelle
cuisine. Her greens were the best, and her Georgia cornbread was too good for even the royal family. She and her sister-in-law
Nader did up a mean jelly stackbread too. For the benighted, that's several thin yellow cake layers sliced into two thinner layers
and the the whole stack layered and topped with mayhaw or hog plum jelly (or whatever was available).
1961 - Baker County Centennial Celebration
L-R: Betty (Combs) Thrift, Melissa (Barber) Stuart Adams, Sunada
Thrift
Sina Thrift Hickox (1866-1951), Becky, Maisie, Gerald holding Ken
Cow House Island, Georgia
Sina was dau. of Robert Thomas "Bob" Thrift & Alice V. "Allie" Albritton & wife of David Eugene Hickox
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