Crazy Quilt about 1887
Parade float about 1910
As with the RISD quilt above, members made gift quilts to honor hard-working officers and groups.
Crazy Quilt, 1890-1891, Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library
"Mary Eliza C. Knowles received this quilt in recognition for her service as president of the Massachusetts Women's Relief Corps in 1890....Each of the 64 blocks of this quilt bears the identification number of the Women's Relief Corps' local chapter and, in some cases, the chapter's name and location."
See more here:
http://mdsmobius.supremecouncil.org/detail.php?t=objects&type=all&f=&s=quilt&record=11
I found mention of a similar gift quilt in the minutes of a WRC meeting in Minnesota in 1887.
"At this juncture Nettie A. Lewis, in her merry, loving way, presented Lulie A. Becker with a beautiful silk quilt, composed of embroidered eight-inch silk blocks, each Corps being represented by a block, their own handiwork."
There is another GAR Ladies' Auxiliary, the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Center of a quilt in the collection of the
San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
"Made by the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
Anna Ella Carroll Circle No. 1, San Jose, California
For Hattie Burgess Shattuck, December 1892"
For more about GAR auxiliary quilts see this post:
Now that the editorial we have this sorted out we can look around for more quilts by the LGAR.
4 comments:
I love it when you mention quilting in my area, we go to Peacedale all the time when we head south. I will have to go to the local museums and see if I can spy some old quilts and get photos.
Debbie
Amazing. We more or less think of Civil War era woman as Scarlett O'Hara's with fans and servants. But they were as we are today. The CW women wanted to be of HELP of the causes they believed in with their whole hearts - North or South.
Think of no cell phones, no special ways of finding out about your loved ones far off in the War. I can't imagine what they must have gone through --- and survived!
Thanks Barbara
JulieinTN
Thank you, Barbara. Glad to see inclusion of the Grand Army of the Republic and the ladies groups.
The GAR and the allied women's orders are still going strong today in the form of The Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and original four allied women's groups: http://suvcw.org/gar.htm
...The GAR encouraged the formation of Allied Orders to aid them in its various works...the GAR finally endorsed the Sons of Veterans of the United States of America (later to become the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War) as its heir...the (Allied Orders are) Womans' Relief Corps (WRC), the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic(LGAR), the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War (DUVCW), and the Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (ASUVCW). All have websites.
Thank you for the information .It was lovely to read about the Ladies groups of the Civil War era and see some of the quilts
Post a Comment