Kentucky Classic #7, Wild Persimmon by Elsie Ridgley
Rose Fruit
Others like the Goldenrod (Block #4) seem unusual enough to offer a good clue to a Garrard County quilt.
A second distinctive regional element is this fruit full of dots.
Barb Eikmeier Collection
Found in Missouri
Zerelda Emmaline McClary Oliver (b ca. 1822)
Garrard County, Kentucky
Also seen in Missouri
McCain Whig Rose
This month's pattern's inspiration is Lucy Kemper West's quilt
in the DAR Museum, full of dots and fruit.
Last month we discussed Lucy's niece Louisa West Jackman,
a fellow Garrard County resident.
Lucy's husband Lysander West and Louisa's father Henry were brothers.
Eldest son Lysander II joined many other Kentuckians in moving to Missouri before the Civil War settling in Cass County in the western part of the state near Kansas City. Others of her children and siblings also seemed to have lived and died in Missouri.
The quilt in the DAR Museum is said to have won a prize at the Missouri State Fair in 1926 although fair records do not mention any familiar names.
1926 State Fair, Sedalia
Perhaps Lysander brought the quilt to Missouri and his descendants entered it in the "Old Quilt" category. I wonder if it wasn't made by Lysander's wife Ruth Smith Logan West (1830-1924,) another Kentucky-born woman of the generation to have been making such fancy quilts in the 1850s.
The Block
Wild Persimmon
We could see the fruit that is so typical of these Garrard County quilts as a pineapple, except pineapples don't really have dots or grow in Kentucky. How about a native Kentucky persimmon full of seeds?
Wild Persimmons
Side-by-side set of 14"/15" blocks
Elsie Ridgley's blocks 1-7 with border. Two more to go.
The fruit full of seeds is the last pattern included in Becky Brown's Medallion Kentucky Classic.
The fruit goes over the corner seams. I'd guess if you enlarge the pattern 180% you will have the fruit and leaves.
A few relevant links:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37403676/lucy-west
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2012/02/garrard-county-kentucky.html
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/05/kentucky-river-rose-pattern.html
https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=16-12-146
Know nothing about it but it looks Kentucky classic to me.
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2012/02/garrard-county-kentucky.html
http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2023/05/kentucky-river-rose-pattern.html
https://quiltindex.org/view/?type=fullrec&kid=16-12-146
Denver Art Museum
Here's a modified medallion format with a looser arrangement.Know nothing about it but it looks Kentucky classic to me.
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