- Maker
- Buel, Lydia Ann (age 17)
- Date made
- ca. 1833
- Origin
- Wallingford, CT US
- Stitches
- Cross.
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- Family Register with information done in squares. A small willow tree with a memorial urn on each side of the marriage square. Verse below. Chevron border all four sides.
- Inscription
- Family Register / (On L): Luther Buel / Born August / 22 1781 / Died Jan 27 / 1877 (On R): Polly Buel / Born September / Died / August 28. / 1882 / (In the center): Luther and Polly Buel / Married 1802 / Names Births Deaths / Lydia Ann Buel March 4 1803 October 3 1913 / Eudotia Buel April 29 1808 October 22 1833 / Henry L Buel. May 19 1814 / Lydia Ann Buel July 31 1816 / Philo A Buel. December 26 1818 / (On bottom L): When blooming youth is snatch'd away / By deaths resistless hand, / Our hearts the mournful tribute pay. / Which pity must demand. / While pity prompts the rising sigh / Oh may this truth imprest / (On bottom R): With awful power I too must die / Sink deep in every breast / Oh let us fly to Jesus fly. / Whose powerful arm can save / Then shall our hopes ascend on high / And triumph o'er the grave //
- Length Without Frame
- 18"
- Width Without Frame
- 17"
- Original Frame
- Unframed
- Historical Owner
- #64.1.18
- Owner
- Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA
- Owner Private
- Old Sturbridge Village
