chair, rocking

Name/Title

chair, rocking

Entry/Object ID

2000.053.009

Description

Chair, rocking. Bentwood rocker with caned seat and back. 2 stretchers on each side and one stretcher front and back. 38"h x 21" w x 32"d.

Acquisition

Accession

2000.053

Source or Donor

McCoy, Anna Margaretta

Acquisition Method

Gift

General Notes

Note

Belonged to donor’s grandmother, Margaretta Reistine Jones McCoy. Margaretta married Thomas L. Jones and they had 3 children: Thomas L., Catherine and Mary. After Thomas’s death in 1851, Margaretta remarried in 1851 and had a son, Edmund S. McCoy. Edmund owned a farm near Oakland Mills in Carroll County. Edmund married Anna Matilda Brown. Their daughter, Anna Margaretta McCoy, is the donor.