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From: "Mary Leavy" <>
Subject: Re: [Shreffler] Fw: Occupations
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:05:18 -0500
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Terry,
I rec'd it 3 times. :~)
I read it once. I enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing. I read about the blue
dying before & thought they were blue dying Yankee uniforms for the civil
war. Blue-North/Gray-South. I didn't realize it was an ongoing occupation.
Thanks again,
Mary Ellen (Shreffler) Leavy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry mcdonald" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 7:40 AM
Subject: [Shreffler] Fw: Occupations


> I have sent this 3 times and have yet to see it ?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Terry mcdonald
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 7:34 PM
> Subject: Fw: Occupations
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Terry mcdonald
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 6:41 PM
> Subject: Occupations
>
>
> Hi, everybody
> I received in the mail today information from The Historical Society of
Dauphin County about Blue Dyer's.
>
> According to there source a Blue Dyer was one who dyed textiles with
Indigo dye , This dye was used heavely for blankets ,coverlets, gingham and
checks.
>
> The formula for extracting the dye from the Indigo plant was very tricky
and very specific. Blue Dyer's were specialist in there field. Housewives
generally did not use Indigo dye;s as the process was so specialized. There
were other dyes that could more easily be used in the home. Blue Dyers were
generally in the business of dying fabrics, frequently they also were
weavers, dying the threads they used to weave the fabrics.
>
> They also checked in a book A Checklist of American Coverlet Weavers an
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center book compiled by John W. Heisey
> in the book were:
>
> Henry Shreffler :He is located by Reinert and Kovel and Kovel in Salona,
Penn.{Clinton Co.} in 1851, but he does not appear in the 1850 US census for
Clinton County.
>
> Israel Shreffler: {ca. 1826-}. He is described as a Penn.-born "coverlid
weaver" in 1850 US census for Salona Penn.{Clinton Co.}
>
> Samuel Shreffler: {ca. 1804-} Born in Penn. he is identifide by Reinert
and Kovel and Kovel as weaving in Salona, Penn{Clinton Co.}, in 1851, and is
listed in the 1850 US census for Clinton Co. as a Coverlet Weaver*
>
> Enjoy I did!
> Terry McDonald/Shreffler
>
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