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From: "Linda Hendley" <>
Subject: Re: [TOWNSEND] Quilt
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 09:26:24 -0800
References: <5d.42f91d5.275d29e2@aol.com>


Ladies, we had better take our quilting talk off line because it may bore
the guys. After all, I wouldn't want to keep reading about their football!
<GRIN> Linda the quilter
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [TOWNSEND] Quilt


> In a message dated 12/4/00 11:33:08 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> << It's a small world. What are the odds of your finding that article two
> days
> ago and getting my email re: the article. I can't remember what the
quilt
> looked like because the article has long since been lost but I saved my
> notes
> on the quilt. Can you describe the quilt to me?
> Char >>
>
> Yes, the front page is the full quilt "The Fairfield Family 1631-1971".
The
> next two pages have close ups of some of the blocks. Depictions are: Jonas
> Weed landing at Watertown, Mass. (ship), 1642 J.W. moved to Stamford,
Conn.
> (houses), 23 Weeds from Stamford took part in the Rev. War (2 uniformed
> drummers & flute player), there is a wagon train, bear and cubs, Sophia's
> house, The P.T. Morgan Co. in Wash. DC, Lake Michigan, a school bus,
baseball
> diamond, store front with toys in the window, a sod house, battle scene on
> Lake Erie, etc. 84 blocks (7 across by 12 down) in all. According to the
> article, each block is 10" x 12"
>
> The title page says "Instead of writing a genealogy, 83-year-old Sophia
> Fairfield Wheat from McLean, Va., made an embroidered album quilt that
keeps
> her family's history locked in stitches".
>
> One block says "Began-August 1965 This quilt 'Fairfield Family 1631-1971'
is
> a tribute of love and respect to my beloved parents and family. Included
are
> John A. Wheat, his children and their families; that they will know the
love
> and respect I have for them. Finished October 1974"....and the stitched
> signature of Sophia.
>
> I wasn't doing genealogy when I cut the article out. I haven't even seen
it
> for at least 10 years so it was of much greater interest to run into it
again
> now that I have been doing genealogy for the past 6 years. I am no
> seamstress, but if I were........! What a tribute it would be to those we
> never met but have come to love as though we knew them well! And what a
fine
> family heirloom to pass down!
>
> And surely those "not so enthusiastic" family members could keep their
eyes
> from glazing over long enough to read a beautiful quilt!
>
> Regards,
> Lisa
>
>
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