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Interview with B.D. and R. E. Thomas
Type: Text
Year: 2006, 2006, 2006, 2006
Member of: FAU Department of History Oral Histories
Contributors: Thomas, B. D., Thomas, R. E.
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Description: B.D. Thomas was born in 1919 at Prayer Ridge in the Basinger, Florida area to a
cattle family. She became an orphan at the age of thirteen and was married at the age of
sixteen. After she married, she used inherited cattle to buy eighty acres at a tax sale in
order to begin ranching with her husband. The interviews were conducted on that same
ranch where her son, R.E. Thomas, herds approximately… more
Full Text: September 11, 2006 Interviewees: B.D. Thomas & R.E. Thomas Interviewer: Terry Dooley with Loisa Kerwin B.D. Thomas was born in 1919 at Prayer Ridge in the Basinger, Florida area to a cattle family. She became an orphan at the age of thirteen and was …