64" x 93"
| I'm now 84 years. When I was a child "Aunt Emm" was
the Evans family matriarch. I can remember going with my mother to
visit her in her sun/sitting room, where Aunt Emm would be in a rocking
chair almost always working on some kind of needlework. My second-cousin
Ruth owns this quilt made by Aunt Emm (Her grandmother, who she and her
sisters called "Memms"). I don't remember seeing
it until about 6 months ago when Ruth asked my wife Jerrianne how to
clean it. We took the quilt to ask the advice of someone more expert
in this area than Jerrianne. News: We learned about 10
years ago there were two of these quilts. Emma had a set of twin beds
and each bed had one of these quilts on it. No one in the family
knows what happened to the second one. Emma was a very generous person
and it is probable that she gave it to someone. |
Quilt made by Emma Ferdinand Evans (Miss Emma) Gerlach, born 1876 in North Carolina, died 1972 in Livingston, Texas. She lived most of her life in Livingston. |
64" x 93"
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