- Maker
- Craig, Lydia
- Date made
- 1825
- Origin
- Port Elizabeth, Cumberland Cnty, NJ US
- Stitches
- Cross, Satin,
- In Bolton & Co.
- No
- Foundation Cloth
- Linen
- Embroidery Thread
- Silk
- Predominent Motif
- Inscription fill the upper half of this sampler. Across the bottom a green lawn with a two story house with two chimney, flowers in an urn, aa center fruit tree, and various flowers and plants on the R side. Inner and outer saw tooth border with a center borders of meandering flowers and leaves.
- Inscription
- (On L): Lydia Craig Daughter of / Samuel and Elizabeth Craig / Was born January / the Twentieth 1813 / William Craig Son of the / Above Was born August / Seventeenth th 1815 / Robert L. Craig Son of the / Above Was born October the / Twentyseventh 1817 / Robert L Craig Son of the / Above Departed this life / October Sixth th 1821 / (In the center): Death ends our woe / And puts a period to the ills of life / Woust / What tho my heart be torn with / anguish Nursd in sorrows lap I lie / What tho ? spirits faint and languish / Time will come when i shall die / Tho want and misery here beset me / Friends prove foes and pass me by / The hope of eartly bliss forsake me / Happy thought Im born to die / Be calm my soul be calm and happy / Quit be this heaving sigh / Joys celestial cluster round thee / In the thought Im born to die / Elizabeth Craig daughter of the / Above Was born May the fifth 1821 / (On the R): John Craig Son of the / Above Was born March / Sixth 1820 / Edward Craig Son of the / Above Was born July / Fourteenth th 1827 / Blessed are the poor in spirit / for theirs is the kingdom / of Heaven / Blessed are they that mourn / for they shall be / comforted //
- Length With Frame
- 20 1/4"
- Wdith With Frame
- 25 3/4"
- Historical Owner
- Gift to the Society from a descendant of the maker in 1926.
- Owner
- Gloucester County Historical Society, Woodbury, NJ
- Owner Private
- Gloucester County Historical Society
