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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
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