1800-1849

Rising Sun

Barrow, Mrs. Josiah...

Date Made: 1800-1849

Rising Sun

Creator: Barrow, Mrs. Josiah

Location Made: Alabama (AL) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Row of half suns at top for pillows. Twelve full red, green, and white whirling disks are edged with tiny red and yellow triangles and contained within a strong grid of green. Two of the twelve full whirling disks are pieced so that the motif appears to rotate counter clockwise; all others, including the four half disks at the top, rotate clockwise.

Quilt Size: 100 in. x 88 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain, calicoes

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Another member of this family owns a quilt made by Harriet E. Barrow Gray (the daughter of the maker of the Rising Sun quilt). Although its pattern is not a Rising Sun, the owner states that appears to be made of the same yellow-green calico that was used in the Rising Sun quilt., Backing is homespu...

25-21-334

KID: 25-21-334

1800-1849

Love Apple

Perrin, Ambrosia Ja...

Date Made: 1800-1849

Love Apple

Creator: Perrin, Ambrosia Jane Smith

Location Made: Chillicothe, Missouri (MO) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 98 in. x 82 1/2

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt was made by Ambrosia Jame Smith, age seventeen, just before her marriage. According to family history, her fiance drafted the pattern for Ambrosia's quilt and also drew the quilting patterns. Ambrosia Smith married Cary Allen Perrin in Missouri in 1849; the couple moved to Texas in 1898, ...

25-21-337

KID: 25-21-337

1800-1849

Lotus Flower

Date Made: 1800-1849

Lotus Flower

Location Made: Bagwell area, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 86 1/2 in. x 101 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Broadcloth, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

25-21-336

KID: 25-21-336

1800-1849

Mosaic Star

Hayne, Mary Hopkins...

Date Made: 1800-1849

Mosaic Star

Creator: Hayne, Mary Hopkins

Location Made: United States

Contruction: English template Piecing, Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Other applique, Other embellishment technique, cut-out bouquets of chintz flowers have been appliqued in each of four corners using broderie perse technique.

Quilt Size: 43 in. x 49 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Cotton, Chintz, Checked, Floral, Print, Solid/plain, rainbow roller prints

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mrs. Mary Hopkins Hayne may have made this quilt in either North or South Carolina, possibly for her first granddaughter, Eliza Fannie Parks. This quilt has been handed down within the family to the present day. Eliza Fannie's daughter, Frances Crockett McKenzie, moved to Texas with her parents in 1...

25-21-333

KID: 25-21-333

1850-1875

Ark and Dove

Russell, Harriet Lu...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Ark and Dove

Creator: Russell, Harriet Lucinda Acker McDavid

Location Made: Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Embroidery, one dove of the 25 large doves has its eye and eyebrow made by embroidery; all other eyes on the doves are simply circles buttonhole stitched down.

Quilt Size: 70 in. x 86 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker named her daughter Annie, but family history states that she was so busy caring for wounded Confederate soldiers that she didn't take time to give her daughter a full name. Annie was eventually named Annie Eugenia Florence McDavid at the request of one of the wounded soldiers "wh...

25-21-348

KID: 25-21-348

1850-1875

Blazing Star

Denman, Mary

Date Made: 1850-1875

Blazing Star

Creator: Denman, Mary

Location Made: Lufkin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 69 in. x 82 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Hand-dyed, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

some fabrics are hand dyed

25-21-358

KID: 25-21-358

1850-1875

Sawtooth Star

Parkey, Ruthie Fuga...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Sawtooth Star

Creator: Parkey, Ruthie Fugate

Location Made: Tennessee (TN) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 61 in. x 81 1/2 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Ruthie Fugate Parkey made this quilt in Claiborne County, Tennessee, probably for her wedding, which was in 1859. She married Milton Green Parkey, and the couple had seven children, five of which were sons, between 1860 and 1873. In 1884, Mr. Parkey and two sons came to Texas to homestead...

25-21-344

KID: 25-21-344

1850-1875

Rails through the...

Williams, Ellen Pri...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Rails through the Mountains

Creator: Williams, Ellen Priscilla Miller

Location Made: Kentucky (KY) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Very complex piecing in fan-shaped corners, elaborate sashing, and use of some 2,544 small triangles.

Quilt Size: 69 in. x 89 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker made each of her six children a woolen coverlet. According to the family, "She reared and sheared the sheep, carded the wool, spun it into thread, and wove coverlets, all while rearing her family."

25-21-354

KID: 25-21-354

1850-1875

Crown of Thorns

Griffin, Virginia C...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Crown of Thorns

Creator: Griffin, Virginia Catherine Sears

Location Made: Whitewright, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, binding and white strip at top are machine pieced; all else is hand pieced

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 81 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain, small pink print fabric binding

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Virginia Catherine, known as Kate, grew up in Whitewright, Texas, which is where her parents settled in 1855, having moved from Alabama by oxcart. Their daughter Kate married John Griffin in 1876. The couple lived in or near Whitewright or Gainseville all their married lives. Kate died tragically in...

25-21-359

KID: 25-21-359

1850-1875

Trapunto Quilt

Date Made: 1850-1875

Trapunto Quilt

Location Made: West Virginia (WV) United States

Contruction: Handmade knotted fringe on three sides (not at top).

Quilt Size: 75 in. x 77 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting, Stuffed work

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quilt's owner is Sue Colly Kreidler, who lives in Texas. She purchased this quilt at an estate sale.

25-21-338

KID: 25-21-338

1850-1875

Mississippi Beaut...

Shelby, Jane

Date Made: 1850-1875

Mississippi Beauty; Prairie Flower

Creator: Shelby, Jane

Location Made: Mississippi (MS) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 93 in. x 99 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt was made in Mississippi by Jane Shelby, the housekeeper for William Mayo Connor, the bachelor brother-in-law of the present owner's great granddaughter. Judith Worsley Connor, who lived in the Daingerfield, Texas area in 1849. Mr. Connor and the quiltmaker moved to Daingerfield around 18...

25-21-341

KID: 25-21-341

1850-1875

Whig's Defeat

Worden, Gail C.

Date Made: 1850-1875

Whig's Defeat

Creator: Worden, Gail C.

Location Made: Georgia (GA) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 74 in. x 80 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Hand-dyed, Imported fabrics, most notably the green print used in background and for diamonds in sashing. Home dyed rosy beige is unusual and was probably obtained using red clay in quiltmaker's home state of Georgia.

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Anne Long Tuley stated: "I believe this quilt was made for Gail's wedding with imported fabrics by or for her trip to Texas--It is obvious it was quilted later and I can imagine that she quilted it and thought about home. The quilting is not as fine as the piecing and perhaps that was all she c...

25-21-342

KID: 25-21-342

1850-1875

Feathered Star

Hubbard, Jane Hoard...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Feathered Star

Creator: Hubbard, Jane Hoard

Location Made: Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Use of yellow with red-green combination adds optical effect of a second star.

Quilt Size: 80 in. x 97 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Jane Hoard seems to have married Robert W. Hubbard sometime after 1837 just before the couple settled in Hill's Prairie in Bastrop County, Texas. Mr. Hubbard had come to Texas as a teenager with a large party from Georgia, including his married older sister Eveline Hubbard Hill. The trip ...

25-21-346

KID: 25-21-346

1850-1875

Log Cabin, Courth...

Moore, Martha Virgi...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Log Cabin, Courthouse Steps

Creator: Moore, Martha Virginia Morris

Location Made: Florence, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Foundation Piecing, Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 64 in. x 74 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Wool, Other, Velvet

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker was known as an expert needleworker, as were her two daughters.

25-21-352

KID: 25-21-352

1850-1875

Rambling Rose

McClanahan, Dorothe...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Rambling Rose

Creator: McClanahan, Dorothea Keyes

Location Made: Lexington, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 105 in. x 96 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain, Center of some roses appears to be very tiny print fabric rather than solid

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Dolly McClanahan was born in 1802 in Georgia. She moved with her family to Tennessee, then to Alabama in 1820. In 1846 she and her husband Milton moved to Texas with their eight children. The journey was by covered wagon and took six weeks. Milton, a former Alabama state senator, settled his family ...

25-21-345

KID: 25-21-345

1850-1875

Rose of Sharon wi...

Dickerson, Margaret...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Rose of Sharon with Buds

Creator: Dickerson, Margaret Wright

Location Made: Missouri (MO) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique, Other embellishment technique, multi-layered applique; trapunto

Quilt Size: 96 in. x 72 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting, Stuffed work

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The Dickersons lived on a farm in Atoka, Texas, in Coleman County. After Margaret Dickerson's husband died she moved to Houston to live with a son and his family. The owner believes that her great grandmother and a sister, Lula Wright, made three quilts, one of which is this Rose of Sharon with Buds...

25-21-349

KID: 25-21-349

1850-1875

Texas Star Friend...

Penick, Mollie C.

Date Made: 1850-1875

Texas Star Friendship Quilt

Creator: Penick, Mollie C.

Location Made: Liberty Hill, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 74 in. x 87 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Margaret Johnson did many kinds of needlework, including sewing clothes for her seven children., Appears to be an original design with twelve stars, one for each person who helped the thirteenth person (the recipient) quilt it and who signed it.

25-21-351

KID: 25-21-351

1850-1875

Feathered Star

Keith, Cynthia Jane...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Feathered Star

Creator: Keith, Cynthia Jane Campbell

Location Made: Dublin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing

Quilt Size: 67 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Dotted, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker was married in Texas in 1837 when she was twenty-five years old. In 1839, her husband was a veteran of the Texas Revolution and was awarded land in Red River County. The couple reared 15 children, one of whom was killed by Indians in 1864.

25-21-343

KID: 25-21-343

1850-1875

Sugar Loaf

Askey, Annie Doroth...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Sugar Loaf

Creator: Askey, Annie Dorothea Walker Folmer

Location Made: Alabama (AL) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 67 in. x 83 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

According to the owner, the quiltmaker did not work outside the home, and was known as an outstanding homemaker (she scrubbed her white hickory floors with sand) and cook. She made clothing and quilts, she spun cotton and wool thread, crocheted, tatted, weaved, knit, and embroidered. She taught her ...

25-21-355

KID: 25-21-355

1850-1875

Wild Goose Chase

Means, Margaret E. ...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Wild Goose Chase

Creator: Means, Margaret E. Aiken Cody

Location Made: Jackson, Georgia (GA) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Orderly quilt with 21 pieced blocks, each containing 166 small triangles, alternating with heavily quilted white blocks. he brown triangles are pieced in each block to link with those in other blocks, giving the quilt an overall grid look.

Quilt Size: 86 1/2 in. x 74 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker made this quilt for her marriage to T. W. Cody in 1874. The couple had one daughter, Carrie, in 1876, prior to leaving Jackson, Georgia, for Lampasas, Texas. Mrs. Cody was widowed, then married a second time, to Ruben Lee Means, with whom she had four children by 1899. In 1901 the fam...

25-21-356

KID: 25-21-356

1850-1875

Basket of Flowers...

Prothro, Mary Ridle...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Basket of Flowers Chintz Applique

Creator: Prothro, Mary Ridley Mims

Location Made: Georgia (GA) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Chintz applique quilt constructed using broderie perse technique.

Quilt Size: 87 in. x 87 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Chintz, Floral, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The present quilt owner, Ruth Eleanor Young Huddle, recalls first seeing this quilt when she was thirteen years old; it was 1927, the year of her grandmother's death. The quilt was left to her aunt, who in turn handed it down to her as a symbol of the perseverance of the women in the family.

25-21-335

KID: 25-21-335

1850-1875

Bleeding Heart

Beck, Elizabeth Win...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Bleeding Heart

Creator: Beck, Elizabeth Winfrey Harrison Denton

Location Made: Kentucky (KY) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 102 in. x 86 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quilt owner stated that this quilt was made by her grandmother for her trousseau and that "It was so beautifully made no one could have done it with little ones underfoot." Quiltmaker Elizabeth Winfrey Harrison married twice and had seven children. When she died in 1871 at age forty-o...

25-21-339

KID: 25-21-339

1850-1875

Double Irish Chai...

Spicer, Harriet Sop...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Double Irish Chain

Creator: Spicer, Harriet Sophia Fyler

Location Made: Amboy, New York (NY) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Reverse Applique, Embroidery

Quilt Size: 69 in. x 74 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker Harriet Sophia Fyler Spicer was born in 1820 in Sullivan, New York. She married in 1848, but eventually separated from her husband; she supported herself and her three children by quilting, weaving, and spinning. She made this quilt as a presentation quilt for her first-born son, Will...

25-21-340

KID: 25-21-340

1850-1875

Medallion Quilt

Herring, Nannie Eve...

Date Made: 1850-1875

Medallion Quilt

Creator: Herring, Nannie Everett

Location Made: Mississippi (MS) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 75 in. x 87 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

25-21-357

KID: 25-21-357

1876-1900

Diamondback Rattl...

Bristol, Jemima Elv...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Diamondback Rattlesnake

Creator: Bristol, Jemima Elvira Johnson

Location Made: McKinney, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 70 in. x 73 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Hand-dyed, Print, Solid/plain, coarsely woven cotton

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

As the mother of nine children, Jemima Bristol made clothes for her family as well as straw mattresses for family to sleep on. She raised chickens, pigs, and cows and kept a garden that included beans, potatoes, "and everything else [she] could to help feed the family." Her husband Willia...

25-21-5

KID: 25-21-5

1876-1900

Sawtooth Star

Rush, Susanah Mote

Date Made: 1876-1900

Sawtooth Star

Creator: Rush, Susanah Mote

Location Made: Ennis, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Other embellishment technique, 13 scarlet squares are pieced at corners and at each junction of four feathered stars.

Quilt Size: 76 in. x 76 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain, small strawberry pink print

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

According to the present owners, Susanah Rush and her husband left Ohio "because they were Democrats. Ohio was Republican . . . so they came to Texas." , She taught her daughter Melinda Florence (Flo) Rush Hall to quilt. One of her quilts, a Four Seasons quilt, is featured in Bresenhan, K...

25-21-7

KID: 25-21-7

1876-1900

Log Cabin, Barn R...

Patterson, Rebecca ...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Log Cabin, Barn Raising variation

Creator: Patterson, Rebecca Hooker

Location Made: Mississippi (MS) United States

Contruction: Foundation Piecing, Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 68 1/4 in. x 82 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Rebecca Patterson was an accomplished needleworker. She made clothing and taught her daughters to do the same.

25-21-8

KID: 25-21-8

1876-1900

Tree of Life

Mason, Mary Jane Ja...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Tree of Life

Creator: Mason, Mary Jane Jackson

Location Made: Cedar Creek, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidery used to create thin stems on branches holding berries

Quilt Size: 80 in. x 74 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mary Jane Jackson Mason had at least five children.

25-21-360

KID: 25-21-360

1876-1900

South Land Rose Q...

Jackson, Sarah Thom...

Date Made: 1876-1900

South Land Rose Quilt

Creator: Jackson, Sarah Thomas

Location Made: Salty Community [near Thorndale], Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Machine Piecing, Hand Applique, Gathering/ruching, Embroidery, embroidered stems; red roses are heavily ruched and have stuffed orange centers

Quilt Size: 65 in. x 90 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The Jackson family probably came to Texas in 1875; the quiltmaker's son was born in 1873 and recalls coming to Texas on a boat. The family first settled near Galveston, but then traveled by covered wagon to Bastrop, Texas, where the family had relatives. The family rented land on the Colorado Rive...

25-21-364

KID: 25-21-364

1876-1900

Double Wedding Ri...

Sweeten, Lola Demet...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Double Wedding Ring

Creator: Sweeten, Lola Demetia

Location Made: Cleveland, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 65 in. x 76 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, hand dyed green; indigo blue

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quilt maker Lola Sweeten came to Texas in 1896. She was the wife of a farmer and the mother of seven children. She made all the clothing for the family as well as working in the fields. She also crocheted and made doilies. The present owner of the quilt notes that Lola Sweeten "was a quiet, re...

25-21-376

KID: 25-21-376

1876-1900

Carpenter's Squar...

Wilson, Martha Harr...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Carpenter's Square

Creator: Wilson, Martha Harriet Kincaid

Location Made: McKinney, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 78 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain, indigo blue with tiny print

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Martha Wilson moved to Texas when she was six. As a child she attend a Dame School, a combination nursery school, kindergarten, and first grade, where small children were taught, often by a spinster or a housewife, their alphabet and were instructed in sewing and knitting. Martha married George Wils...

25-21-368

KID: 25-21-368

1876-1900

TEXAS Quilt

Callan, Nancy Rebec...

Date Made: 1876-1900

TEXAS Quilt

Creator: Callan, Nancy Rebecca Dickson

Location Made: Campbell, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, The stars and all the letters in TEXAS are pieced except for the 12 letters S, which appear to be appliqued. One S is sewn on backward.

Quilt Size: 78 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Nancy Callan was born in Alabama in 1836 and came to Texas at the time of her marriage to George Washington Callan in 1861. She and her husband had nine children by 1879. Her husband died in 1885, leaving her to raise eight of her children and two foster children. She made this TEXAS quilt while &q...

25-21-373

KID: 25-21-373

1876-1900

Family Tree Quilt...

Roberson, J. B.

Date Made: 1876-1900

Family Tree Quilt

Creator: Roberson, J. B.

Location Made: Cleburne, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Embroidery, family tree is machine stitched embroidery

Quilt Size: 82 in. x 63 in.

Quilting Techniques: Machine quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quilt lists the names of family members: father, mother, children, and grandchildren. The December 20th date suggests that J. B. Roberson made this quilt for his wife as a Christmas gift. At the bottom of the quilt he credits his brother-in-law J.W. Mills, who held the bulk of the quilt for him ...

25-21-4

KID: 25-21-4

1876-1900

Vase of Roses and...

Davidson, Josie

Date Made: 1876-1900

Vase of Roses and Cherries

Creator: Davidson, Josie

Location Made: Virginia (VA) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique, Embroidery, embroidery stitches create cherry stems

Quilt Size: 84 in. x 84 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

25-21-361

KID: 25-21-361

1876-1900

Princess Feather ...

Berry, Mrs. Andrew ...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Princess Feather variation

Creator: Berry, Mrs. Andrew Jackson

Location Made: Baird, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 82 in. x 86 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Dotted, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker is thought to be the second wife of Captain Andrew jackson Berry, who fought in the Texas army at the Battle of San Jacinto in 1836 and in the Confederate army during the Civil War. There is no information about the quiltmaker other than that she and her husband lived in the Baird, Te...

25-21-366

KID: 25-21-366

1876-1900

Princess Feather

Christian, Bashie S...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Princess Feather

Creator: Christian, Bashie Smith

Location Made: Waco, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, layered applique

Quilt Size: 60 in. x 60 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

According to the present owner, the quiltmaker often took leaves off of trees to use for her quilt patterns. Additionally, Bashie Christian was quite a talented needleworker--she is remembered for her beautiful tatting and crochet. She also loved flower gardening and always had flowers in the yard a...

25-21-369

KID: 25-21-369

1876-1900

Crazy Quilt

Brown, Sue Dee Grai...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Crazy Quilt

Creator: Brown, Sue Dee Grainger

Location Made: Houston, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Blanket, buttonhole, or other decorative applique stitch, Embroidery, Painting, Other embellishment technique, pieced commemorative ribbons; hand painted figure; embroidered sashing and sashing in different colors; elaborate edge

Quilt Size: 69 in. x 71 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Silk, Other, Velvet, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

It is possible Mrs. Brown made this quilt as a wedding quilt for her marriage, which was either in 1887 or 1888. Her husband's initially are featured in the quilt's center block. Her granddaughter remembers her grandmother as doing a lot of needlework; she owns a table cloth and napkins that her gr...

25-21-372

KID: 25-21-372

1876-1900

String Star

Turner, Mary P.

Date Made: 1876-1900

String Star

Creator: Turner, Mary P.

Location Made: Marble Falls, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 80 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mary P. Turner was born in Georgia in 1828; she married George Turner in 1848. Her husband, a veteran of the Mexican War, was later a purchasing agent for the Confederacy. The couple settled for a time in Columbus, Colorado County, and also lived in Austin and Burnet, where Mary Turner made this qui...

25-21-374

KID: 25-21-374

1876-1900

Crazy Quilt

McCauley, Annie T.

Date Made: 1876-1900

Crazy Quilt

Creator: McCauley, Annie T.

Location Made: San Antonio, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Foundation Piecing, Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Blanket, buttonhole, or other decorative applique stitch, Embroidery, Other embellishment technique, decorative briar stitching around each fabric and around each of the nine blocks

Quilt Size: 58 in. x 58 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Silk, Other, Solid/plain, Other, moire silks, ribbons

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The initials A. T. in the quilt must refer to Annie T., the quiltmaker. Presumably T. stands for her maiden name.

25-21-6

KID: 25-21-6

1876-1900

Rocky Glen

Floyd, Mary E. Robe...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Rocky Glen

Creator: Floyd, Mary E. Roberson

Location Made: Tennessee (TN) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 63 1/2 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Hand-dyed, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker's granddaughter recalls that her grandmother "spun, wove and dyed and sewed all the family clothing in Tenn[essee]. As a young person I remember seeing the spinning wheel in my grandmother's room and her spinning threads." She also noted "Mary Floyd was a housewife but ...

25-21-362

KID: 25-21-362

1876-1900

Sawtooth Variatio...

Slater, Margaret Ca...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Sawtooth Variation

Creator: Slater, Margaret Cameron

Location Made: Jeromesville, Ohio (OH) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, precise hand piecing of 3,584 individual sawtooth triangles

Quilt Size: 80 in. x 89 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Dotted, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The present owner was the first great grandchild in her family. When she was only 17 months old, her parents took her to Ohio so that her great grandmother, the quiltmaker, could meet her first great grandchild. , Quiltmaker taught school before she married. She made the family's clothing and did so...

25-21-365

KID: 25-21-365

1876-1900

Indian Feathers

Findley, Mary Jane ...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Indian Feathers

Creator: Findley, Mary Jane Reese

Location Made: Harmony Hill, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 79 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Print, Solid/plain, strawberry print

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker also sewed and did embroidery. She was known a "brave, neat, and Christian woman."

25-21-370

KID: 25-21-370

1876-1900

Sunburst

Lewellin, Sally Bea...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Sunburst

Creator: Lewellin, Sally Beaird

Location Made: Brownwood, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Other embellishment technique, The vining border is not applique; it is hand pieced into the quilt

Quilt Size: 62 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain, two muslin fabrics used; fading differently

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Sally Beaird was born in Georgia in 1852; she moved to Texas between 1870 and 1880 and married a rancher in 1883. The quilt's date is close to her wedding date, so she may have made it as a wedding quilt. This quilt is one of a pair of matching quilts made by Sally Lewellin, each with designs in di...

25-21-371

KID: 25-21-371

1876-1900

Harrison Rose

Dickerson, Almeda B...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Harrison Rose

Creator: Dickerson, Almeda Bell

Location Made: Brookeland, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 74 in. x 85 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker was related to five of the families who were early settlers in the East Texas area now located within a 25 mile radius of the present location of Sam Rayburn Dam. The Dickersons moved to Texas in 1840 and the Bell family came in 1854. These two families, as well as Letneys, Lowes, and...

25-21-9

KID: 25-21-9

1876-1900

Feather Star

Daugherty, Lillie A...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Feather Star

Creator: Daugherty, Lillie Ann McBee

Location Made: Gainesville, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 67 in. x 79 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Conversation Prints, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain, fabrics in this quilt probably gathered between 1875 and 1900.

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Lillie McBee was born in Tennessee in 1877. She came to Texas when she was four and grew up in Gainesville, where she finished high school. She married in 1900 and in 1906 moved with her family to Moore County, settling in the Middle Well Community. She moved again in 1914, to Dumas, Texas. Lillie D...

25-21-11

KID: 25-21-11

1876-1900

Sunflower

Kirvin Community

Date Made: 1876-1900

Sunflower

Creator: Kirvin Community

Location Made: Kirvin, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 88 in. x 99 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Karey Bresenhan notes that this quilt is a Freedom Quilt, traditionally a quilt made for a young man by his female friends--the only quilts made especially for men. Typically they were made for and given to men when they became twenty-one years old and reached their legal majority or when they finis...

25-21-367

KID: 25-21-367

1876-1900

New York Beauty

Chambers-Smith, Mar...

Date Made: 1876-1900

New York Beauty

Creator: Chambers-Smith, Mary E.

Location Made: Pursley Community, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 68 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

This quilt is one of a pair of the same design; the other is made in red and white. The family notes that after her death, when they moved her possessions, they used "old worn-out quilts for packing.", Family notes that quilt maker "was an excellent seamstress but sewed only for the f...

25-21-3

KID: 25-21-3

1876-1900

Mexican Rose

Armstrong, Mary Ann...

Date Made: 1876-1900

Mexican Rose

Creator: Armstrong, Mary Ann Elizabeth Myers

Location Made: Coleman, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 92 in. x 94 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

There is no consensus about when or where this quilt was made. The family believes it was made ca. 1867 and brought to Texas when the quilt maker and her family settled in Coleman, Coleman County, Texas. Karey Bresenhan, who reviewed this quilt in 1985, suggests it was made ca. 1890, which means it ...

25-21-375

KID: 25-21-375

1901-1929

Target Quilt

Clark, Lorah Sasser...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Target Quilt

Creator: Clark, Lorah Sasser

Location Made: Nancy Prairie or Whitesboro, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Foundation Piecing, Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 70 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Lorah Sasser was born in Whitesboro, Texas, in 1879. She married James Milton Clark in 1898, and the couple had five children. Lorah started her Target quilt when she was sixteen; she used many fabrics that date from the last quarter of the 19th century, which suggests she kept a well-stocked scrap ...

25-21-13

KID: 25-21-13

1901-1929

Crazy Quilt

Florence, Julia Sav...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Crazy Quilt

Creator: Florence, Julia Savannah Beaty

Location Made: Mesquite, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Embroidery, Blocks are pieced together then embroidered with designs and figures that record quiltmaker's family history.

Quilt Size: 82 1/2 in. x 70 1/2 in.

Quilting Techniques: Not quilted

Fabrics: Wool, Multiple scrap, Solid/plain, men's woolen suit fabrics; probably from sample books (evidence of holes and glue in corners of blocks)

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Julia Savannah Beaty was born in 1850 in Arkansas and orphaned at age four. She was reared by a family in Grand Saline in Van Zandt County, Texas, where she met and married David Walker Florence in 1866. The couple established a homestead in Mesquite in 1871, two years before the town was even plat...

25-21-15

KID: 25-21-15

1901-1929

Pinwheel Star

Smith, Paralee Hamb...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Pinwheel Star

Creator: Smith, Paralee Hambleton

Location Made: Brazos, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 63 in. x 76 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Print, Solid/plain, Other, 2 kinds of white fabric used

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Paralee Hambleton was born in 1872 in Missouri. Her father was a saloon owner who took his family west in a covered wagon. They stopped first in Palo Pinto County, Texas, then moved on to Weatherford. The eldest daughter, Paralee--the quilt maker--left school in the fifth grade to help care for her ...

25-21-18

KID: 25-21-18

1901-1929

White-Work quilt

Wagner, N.

Date Made: 1901-1929

White-Work quilt

Creator: Wagner, N.

Location Made: Calvert, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, stuffed work throughout

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker's family came to Texas in the early 1800s. Some of the family settled in the Houston area.

25-21-12

KID: 25-21-12

1901-1929

Cherry Quilt

Stone, Levina Thoma...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Cherry Quilt

Creator: Stone, Levina Thomas

Location Made: Five Points Community near Lamesa, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Dimensional applique, 1200 stuffed cherries, each perfectly round

Quilt Size: 68 in. x 82 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Levina Thomas was born in Tennessee in 1872; she married in 1888 and was widowed in 1922, after which she went to live with her eldest son and his family in Dawson County, which is where she made this quilt. The quilt maker's granddaughter notes that her grandmother lived in a cotton-growing area du...

25-21-21

KID: 25-21-21

1901-1929

Cut Paper Appliqu...

Watt, Mabel McBurne...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Cut Paper Applique Quilt

Creator: Watt, Mabel McBurnett

Location Made: Roscoe, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 72 in. x 81 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Mabel McBurnett Watt, the quilt maker, lived her entire life in Roscoe, Texas. The first load of lumber ever delivered to Nolan County was used to build her parents' home in Roscoe. Mabel and her husband had two sons by the time her first daughter was born. Determined to name their third child "...

25-21-19

KID: 25-21-19

1901-1929

String Scrap Quil...

Hill, Gazzie

Date Made: 1901-1929

String Scrap Quilt

Creator: Hill, Gazzie

Location Made: Smithville, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 69 in. x 82 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Checked, Dotted, Multiple scrap, Print, Printed patchwork, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Gazzie Hill, the daughter of a slave, was born in 1877 on a farm near La Grange. Her family moved to nearby Smithville while Gazzie was young, and she lived there the remainder of her life, working for and living near the Dr. J. H. E. Powell family for seventy years. Gazzie never married...

25-21-20

KID: 25-21-20

1901-1929

Stars and Stripes...

Myers, Laura Maria ...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Stars and Stripes

Creator: Myers, Laura Maria Ott

Location Made: Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 87 in. x 91 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Dotted, Print, Striped

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Quiltmaker Laura Myers moved to Texas from Louisiana in 1880 along with many members of the Myers family. Laura was pregnant during the nine-week wagon trip. The group reached Eastland, Texas in late June 1880. Less than a month later the couple's first son was born. The present owner of this quilt...

25-21-10

KID: 25-21-10

1901-1929

Postage Stamp Qui...

Whitworth, Rosa Ana...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Postage Stamp Quilt

Creator: Whitworth, Rosa Ana O'Riley

Location Made: Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing

Quilt Size: 64 in. x 74 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Checked, Multiple scrap, Print, Solid/plain, Striped, shirtings, chambreys

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Rosa Ana O'Riley was born in 1875, probably in Kentucky. She married there in 1895. She and husband Charles Andrew Whitworth had five children. Rosa's husband died in a logging accident in 1906; following his death she moved to Texas, settling first near Waxahachie in Ellis County, then with family ...

25-21-14

KID: 25-21-14

1901-1929

Red Cross Quilt

Stanfield, Anna Cla...

Date Made: 1901-1929

Red Cross Quilt

Creator: Stanfield, Anna Clare Tate

Location Made: Wichita Falls, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, Reverse Applique

Quilt Size: 85 in. x 78 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Some of the names on this quilt are those of young men who were learning to fly at Call Field, located in Wichita Falls at a time when army aviation was in its infancy. Once Mrs. Stanfield added all the names to this quilt, she donated it to the Red Cross to be sold at auction. The high bidder was a...

25-21-17

KID: 25-21-17

1930-1949

New York Beauty

Buske, Hedwig Ferts...

Date Made: 1930-1949

New York Beauty

Creator: Buske, Hedwig Fertsch

Location Made: Shiner, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Piecing, Hand Applique, The junction of sashes consists of a spiky, needle-pointed gold star with an appliqued gold center, all pieced into a larger brown star, pieced into a green square.

Quilt Size: 84 in. x 92 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Muslin

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

Hedwig Fertsch was the youngest girl of eleven children. Her father died in his thirties, leaving his wife to raise the surviving five boys and four girls. Hedwig married Emil Buske in 1905. Emil bought a cotton gin in Shiner, Texas, which he ran until 1971. It was the last gin in Lavaca County to ...

25-21-24

KID: 25-21-24

1930-1949

Pansy quilt

Patterson, Thelma J...

Date Made: 1930-1949

Pansy quilt

Creator: Patterson, Thelma Jetton

Location Made: Hillsboro, Texas (TX) United States

Contruction: Hand Applique

Quilt Size: 77 in. x 87 in.

Quilting Techniques: Hand quilting

Fabrics: Cotton, Solid/plain

Project: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search

The quiltmaker's niece states that Mrs. Patterson's husband was the manager of a grocery store, and with his long hours away from home, she used the time to make this quilt. The quiltmaker never entered her quilts in contests. But in 1984, her niece entered this Pansy Quilt in a Dallas quilt show, w...

25-21-30

KID: 25-21-30