Butler County AlArchives Obituaries.....Thetford, Ever Norris March 15, 1958
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“Signs of the Times” Primitive Baptist Periodical, July 1958 Issue

EVER NORRIS THETFORD – Butler Co., Ala.
	Mrs. Ever Norris Thetford was born at Greenville, Ala., on Nov. 22, 1872, and
died from this old world of sin and sorrow on Mar. 15, 1958, making this little
portion of her life nearly 85-1/2 years.  Her body was buried at Riverdale
Cemetery in Columbus, Ga., where she lived for the past 60 years, but her spirit
was born from above so it has gone back to God Who gave it.
	Sister Thetford was the daughter of Y. C. and Fannie Lloyd Norris, who preceded
her departure by many years.  She was the granddaughter of Benjamin Lloyd who
compiled “The “Lloyd Hymnal,” a precious book that the people of God have read
and sung praises and adorations from for many decades.  She was reared in a
Primitive Baptist home, and it was a heritage that she cherished. 
	She had six sisters and two brothers who survived her.  They are Mrs. Kate
Alston, Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. H. P. Rodgers, Panama City, Fla.; Mrs. Patti Dean,
Phoenix City, Ala.; Mrs. Thomas H. Hoey and Mrs. J. A. Mayberry of Orlando,
Fla., Mrs. George W. Smith, Columbus, Ga.; Y. C. Norris, Glennwood, Ark.; and
Zack Norris, Temple, Okla.  An older brother, Lloyd Norris, preceded her in death. 
	Sister Thetford was united in marriage to the late Charles M. Thetford of
Columbus, and to this union were born seven daughters, one having died in
infancy.  The six surviving daughters are much saddened by her leaving them and
yet not as others who have no hope, because we have a hope that in the plan and
purpose of the Most High and Exalted Jesus, Who is the Resurrection and the
Life, we will be called also at God’s appointed time to pay the wages of sin,
which is to die, that is the flesh or natural, but that we, too, shall see
Jesus, the Lovely One, and sit down with Him and Mama and all who love Him, all
who have been given this heritage.  Oh, what a wonderful family that will be
there!  Dear Old Primitive Baptists, it is just that beautiful now, but we can’t
see it plainly now, but darkly as though through a glass.  How well Mama loved
her Savior and the doctrine of “Salvation by Grace and Grace alone,” and as she
met with the opposition of this world, she never wavered but was given to stand
still and see the Salvation of the Lord.  She loved His people, the Church of
the Living God and the blessed publication of “The Signs of the Times,” which
lay always open with her Bible near.  It was her meat and her drink, for her
Church was not close by.  She wrote a will, to be read after her death, to her
six daughters, nine grandchildren, and in the expression of the sweetest words
that a mortal being could ever write, commending them each and every one to the
Blessed Savior, that, if it could be in His great will to be also their Savior
and teach them of His name, even Jesus, so sweet a name.
	She was a member of the New Harmony Primitive Baptist Church at Hiram, Ga.,
near Atlanta, and her Pastor was Elder O. J. Croker who spoke sweet words of
praise and power of sweet Jesus at graveside services preceding burial of her
body on Mar. 17, 1958.
	May God reconcile us to His Perfect Way and cause us to know He is too wise to
err and too good to be unkind, and enable us to say, “Even so, Lord, for it
seemeth good in Thy Sight, Amen.”  Written by her daughter, Mrs. Zula T. O’Neal   


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