Signatures on Quilt No. 16
"Diagonal Tulip" Friendship Quilt


Many of these blocks included Bible verses. The text of the verses is below the table of signatures, under the woman's name.


Mary Amanda
Blair
Spring Valley
Augusta Coty
Feb 10 th 1851 Va
Mrs. Margaret
Dentz (?) Smiley
Walkers Creek
Augusta Co., Va.
Feb 11th 1851
Catharine E. Hite
February 14th
1851
Mrs. Margaret Smiley
Walkers Creek
Augusta Co., Va.
Feb 18th 1851
Mary I. Hogshead
February 1851
Augusta County
Va
Mary Ellen
Earhardt
Newport
Augusta Co Va
Heb 10th Chap 7th Ver.
Jane E. Steele
February 11th 1851
Elizabeth Kerr ?
February 17 1851
Augusta Co Va.
Jane A. Brown
February 1851
Albemarle Co Va.
B.....
(Illegible/washed out)
Rachel Miller Job 26th Chapt 2 Ver.
Mrs. Barbara Armstrong
Newport
Augusta Co
Va
Atelia I. F. Steele
February 8th 1850
Prov 27th 23rd Ver
(very faint name)
Thy cup will ____? overflow
Proverbs 7th Chap 4th Ver.
Martha Amanda Ward? (Waid?)
Newport
Augusta Co., Va
(faint name: Amanda ____?)
Mary L? Beard
Augusta Co Va
Feb 11 1851
Daniel 2 Chap 3 Vs
Lucy? A Hanger Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Everett
Newport
Augusta Co Va
Rev 21st Chap 7th Ver
Amanda M. B____k? Mrs. Mary E. Bu--?
Mary Ann Smiley
Walker's Creek
Augusta Co Va
Feb 18th 1851
N? J Cash
1 Cor XV
(remainder is illegible)
Mary D. Beard Mary E. Steele
Feb 1851 Augusta Cty Va
Prov Ch 2nd 11 v
Catharine Hanger
Jane? E. T. McChesney
Greenwood
Augusta Coty
Feb 10th 1851 Va
Mary E. Everett
February 8th 1850
Susannah Lucus Margaret Lucus A.V.L. McChesney
Greenwood
(drawing of a book with hands)
Acts IX C. 41 v.
Augusta Co. Va
March 12th 1850
Jane E. Steele
Hebrews 10:7 "Then said he, Lo, I come to / do thy will, O God."
Mrs. Barbara Armstrong
"Suffer ye lttle and I will show thee that / I have come to speak on God's behalf"
Job 26:2 "How hast though helped him that is without power? How savest thou own that hath no strength?"
Atelia I. F. Steele
Proverbs 27:23 "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and / Look well to thy herds."
Martha Amanda Ward
"Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice / is to the sons of men"
Proverbs 7:4 "Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman."
Mary L. Beard
Daniel 2:3 "And the Kind sai [sic] unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Everett
Revelation 21:7 "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my Son."
N J. Cash
1 Corinithians 15
Mary E. Steele
"Discretion shall preserve thee / Understanding shall keep thee."
A. V. L. McChesney
Acts 9:41 "And he gave her his hand, and lifted her up, and when he had called the saints and widows, he presented her alive."