num_pages: 287
description: Elizabeth Roseberry Mitchell's two sons were buried in distant Ohio graves. On the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, Elizabethbegan making a quilted cloth graveyard with two walnut-dyed cloth coffins for each of her two boys. The quilt would not onlybe a mourning piece but, at a time when there were no photographs, it was also Elizabeth's representation of the actualgraveyard in Ohio. In the collection of the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort, Kentucky, the Graveyard Quilt is an unusual piece ofAmerican folk art, as well as a quilt masterpiece. Using this well-known quilt as a document, Linda Otto Lipsett has uncovereda piece of American history never before written. The quiltmaker's pioneer saga begins with her grandparents before theRevolutionary War and continues until 1930, through five generations of her family. Throughout the book Linda Otto Lipsettweaves the story of the making of the Graveyard Quilt. Linda brings to her book over five years of research, which took hertens of thousands of miles from Maryland and Virginia to Pennsylvania and Ohio, to Kentucky near the banks of the Ohio Riverwhere Elizabeth Roseberry Mitchell began her famous Graveyard Quilt, to Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, andfinally to California (the author's resident state), where three of the quiltmaker's children lived at the end of their lives.
language: English
title: Elizabeth Roseberry Mitchell's Graveyard Quilt: An American Pioneer Saga
titlecomplete: Elizabeth Roseberry Mitchell's Graveyard Quilt: An American Pioneer Saga
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Halstead & Meadows Pub