Sarah Grabill's Sampler
name: label: maker
content: Grabill, Sarah Weidler
notes: label: Description
content: This sampler by Sarah Grabill, is stitched in cross stitch with cotton embroidery thread on a linen ground with a thread count of warp 23, weft 31/ in. There are scattered motifs and the initials "S G S C D." Sarah Weidler Grabill was born November 15, 1794, to John and Anna Catharine Weidler Grabill in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She married on May 19, 1814, Adam Bare (1789 -1880). They had seven children, Wayne, Catharine, Elias, Caroline, Adam, Diller, and John G. She died December 9, 1873, and she and Adam are buried in the Salem Evangelical Reformed Church, Hellers cemetery in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.E388926
label: catalog number
content: E388926.000
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Embroidery, Sampler
label: Object Name
content: sampler
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall ground)
label: Physical Description
content: linen, cotton (overall thread)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/8 in x 5 1/8 in; 20.6375 cm x 13.0175 cm