QUILT INDEX RECORD

12-8-6962

Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

85.0521

Owner's name for the quilt:

One Patch block

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Nine Patch Checkerboard, Old Mail, The Queen’s Favorite, Checkerboard

Brackman # or other source & #:

2413b

When was the form filled out?

5/17/1985

Quilt top made by:

Crawford, Mary

If you are the quilt owner, how did you acquire this quilt?

Inherited

Where the quilt was made, city:

Ionia

Where the quilt was made, county:

Ionia

Where the quilt was made, state:

Michigan (MI)

Time period:

1976-1999

When was the quilt started?

1880

When was the quilt finished?

1984

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Ionia

Quiltmaker's county:

Ionia

Quiltmaker's state:

Michigan (MI)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Gardner

Quiltmaker's birth date:

11/10/1793

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

8/10/1885

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

Presbyterian

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Gardner, John

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

Scots Irish

Quiltmaker's mother's name:

Gardner, Mary Mitchel

Quiltmaker's mother's ethnic/tribal background:

Scots Irish

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' ethnic/tribal background:

Scots Irish

This is a:

Finished quilt

Shape of edge:

Straight

What color is the quilt?

Black; Yellow

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

20

Arrangement of quilt blocks:

Straight

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Separated by plain sashing

Related items such as diaries, obituaries, wills, household inventories, or pictures of the quiltmaker:

Michigan Quilts (1987) book, figure 67, page 55.

Publications (including web sites) where this quilt or maker was featured:

Certificate from the Presbyterian Church of Ionia honoring Mary Crawford

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Coralane McLeod Boyes

Quilt owner's city:

Ionia

Quilt owner's county:

Ionia

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Inheritance

Tell the story of how the quilt was obtained:

Mary Gardner Crawford to her daughter Lana Marsh McLeod to her daughter Mary McLeod great granddaughter of the maker

Describe anything about the history of the quilt that wasn't already recorded in a previous field:

It is believed to be the work of Mary Gardner Crawford. Mary McLeod Weed died at age 95 about 3 years ago and we know that the Presbyterian Church of Ionia honored Mary Gardner Crawford in 1879 for the many quilts that she had made for them.

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

How did the quiltmaker participate in the creation of the quilt?

Made entire quilt

Describe any unique traditions, quilting related customs, beliefs, songs or rhymes used by the quiltmaker:

The family tradition says that she enjoyed making quilts.

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum