sampler

Name/Title

sampler

Entry/Object ID

1941.049.422

Description

Sampler. Sampler. Pictorial sampler. Natural linen with cross and eyelet stitches in black, green, yellow and red. 2 fruit baskets, strawberry border. Signed "Elizabeth S. Jones Aged 10 years". 16.125" x 16.75".

Acquisition

Accession

1941.049

Source or Donor

Reese, Paul

Acquisition Method

Gift

General Notes

Note

Elizabeth Jones was the seventh child of Phillip (1780-1835) and Mary Beam Jones (c. 1786-1841). Phillip was an early Westminster merchant and built the house at 132-134 East Main Street around 1817. Around 1835 Elizabeth moved to Bangor, Maine, with her parents. There she married Benjamin Francis Perry on 25 April 1839. Benjamin died shortly after their daughter, Mary Pauline, was born. Eventually, Elizabeth returned to Westminster where her sister, Catherine Jones Shellman, resided with her family. Elizabeth is buried in the cemetery at the Church of the Ascension with other members of the Shellman and Reese families.