Review: Mail Order Bride's Quilt
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 8, 2013
This is short and sweet but it tells all the story.  Two pregnant friends made quilts together as the waited for the Civil War to end and their husbands to come home.  The husband's didn't make it.  The women soon remarried for security ands love.  The children played together and eventually more children were born.One of the women went west with her new husband and the women wrote for years but the letters stopped.  When the daughter of the woman who remained back East was 19, her step-father, mother and two half brothers were killed in an accident.  She sold the farm but couldn't'  remain there though her friend's family let her live with them.  She decided to answer an ad for a mail order bride and ending up in the West waiting to meet her husband.  They were married immediately and then got to know one another.  She arrived at her new home and he helped her put her friend's gift of dishes on the shelves.  She got out her mother's quilt which had been stored to replace a worn one and they found out that they had even more in common.