Thankful Loveland a12
I have a framed sampler that has been in my family since
before I was born.My mother received it from my paternal grandmother. It was on my bedroom wall as a child, so Thankful Loveland has been my companion ever since I could read. I always wondered who she was.
On the back is written in pencil:
Given to
Elizabeth Z. Simpson 1910
by
Mrs(?) Franklin Cole
inherited from
Great Aunt
history unknown
It has the usual alphabets and a gloomy verse written by an obscure English poet who died young in 1806:
The green sod soon upon my breast will lie,
And soft and sound will be my peaceful sleep.
Go thou, and pluck the roses while they bloom--
My hopes lie buried in the silent tomb.
It is signed:
Thankful Loveland a12
My guess as to *which* Thankful Loveland worked this sampler, is the Illinois/Ohio Thankful Howes Loveland Albro, born 1813, as Elizabeth Simpson, my grandmother, was from Kentucky.The other Thankful Loveland Eldridge, born 1817, apparently didn't leave Cape Cod. Thankful H.'s father was a preacher, so the gloomy verse would fit
there, as well.
I have photos if anyone has a way of posting them.The Loveland page at homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~djmurphy/loveland/ seems to be inactive...at least all my emails to the webmaster get rejected...
Peter