Sampler (Family record)

Description

In 1824, ten-year-old Mary Evans embroidered her silk on linen family record (or genealogical) sampler. By that time her father, two sisters, and one brother had died, but Mary embroidered "Departed this life" for the rest of her family, leaving the dates to be added later. Look closely at the embroidery threads in this sampler; they are not all the same color or thickness. We believe that Mary might have added the date of her mother's death in 1864 and possibly that of her brother Albert in 1880. The remaining death dates were probably added by Mary's daughter, Laura B. Easton. Laura gave the sampler to her son Walter, whose daughter, Laura Easton Wells, donated it to Winterthur in 1988.