Drinkards, The

Drinkards , The The Drinkard family hailed from Newark, New Jersey. “Nitch” Drinkard, a factory worker and devout Baptist, and his wife Della raised eight children there. Nitch encouraged them to sing gospel music from an early age, to serve, in his daughter Emily’s words, “as junior ambassadors—not just sowing the gospel but also reaping the blessing of singing God’s word in our own lives.” Four of the siblings—Anne, Emily (“Cissy”), Larry, and Nicholas—began performing gospel music together…