- Full Text
- The loss of a father is much
The loss of a Mother is more
The loss of Christ is such a loss
As no other can restore
- Listed on Page Number
- 316
- Sampler Worked By
- Mary Butcher
- Date of Sampler
- 1740
- Place Sampler Made
- New Jersey
- Sampler Listed on Page
- 35-36
- Author/Publication/Country/Date
- No result found.
- Notes
- Also stitched by:
Almy, Ann, 1783, n.p., p.29;
Anthony, Sarah, n.p., 30;
Brayton, Constant, 1770, Somerset, MA, p. 33;
Douglass, Peggy, 1796, Kent Co., DE, p. 42;
Ford, Jane, 1797, n.p., p.45;
Greene, Mary, 1766, n.p., p. 49;
Jennings, Mary, 1766, n.p., p. 56;
Anderson, Mary Aletta, 1814, n.p., p. 122;
Berry, Sarah, 1813, n.p., p. 128;
Dickinson, Mary, c.1809, n.p., p. 149;
Kay, Family and Genealogy, c.1809, n.p., p. 182;
Mulford, Tamson, 1803, Salem, NJ, p. 199;
Shearman, Peace, 1822, n.p., p. 221.
These lines are a variation of an older verse in the style of an epigram. Many variations are cited below but the original was not found. They are all anonymous. The variation with father and mother seems to have been especially popular for samplers, and may have appeared in a school book at one time, or just been popularly known.