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  Evelyn & Mildred Thrift

Evelyn & Mildred Thrift
1935

 Mildred & Evelyn Thrift

Mildred & Evelyn Thrift - 1948
d/o Spencer & Betty (Combs) Thrift

 Nader 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

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.

  Nader Thrift

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

Spencer "Spence" Thrift (1895-1942)

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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

Willa Mae (Thrift) Bass
wife of Vernon Bass

 Gary Barber & Dale Thrift

Gary Barber & Dale Thrift - 1954

 Thrift - Combs

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).

  Betty Combs Thrift, Melissa Barber, Sunada Thrift
1961 - Baker County Centennial Celebration
L-R: Betty (Combs) Thrift, Melissa (Barber) Stuart Adams, Sunada Thrift

  Sina Thrift Hickox
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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