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Top By: Florence, Julia Savannah Beaty
Period: 1901-1929
Date: 1911
Location Made: Mesquite, Texas (TX) United States
Project Name: Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association, Texas Quilt Search
Contributor: Winedale, University of Texas at Austin
ID Number: tqs_0054
Layout Format: Block pattern
Quilt Size: 82 1/2 in. x 70 1/2 in.
Fabrics: Wool, Solid/plain, Multiple scrap, men's woolen suit fabrics; probably from sample books (evidence of holes and glue in corners of blocks)
Colors: Brown, Black, Beige or Tan
Construction: Hand Piecing, Machine Piecing, Embroidery, Blocks are pieced together then embroidered with designs and figures that record quiltmaker's family history.
Quilting Techniques: Not quilted
Purpose or Function: Art or personal expression, Bedding, special occasion
Other Notes: 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 platted; the family ranch is recorded as a Texas historical landmark. Julia Florence died in 1914 at age sixty-four.
Inscription: M.C.F. IMF DWF Havie March 1911
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