1848 Quilt: Part 2

 

We are looking at an 1848 Pennsylvania quilt that we at 

my sewing group The Sew Whatevers have been studying.https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2021/05/1848-quilt-from-pennsylvania-part-1.html

Our scribe Kathe Dougherty did me the favor of recording the inscriptions. She found 12 surnames in three Pennsylvania counties, Juniata, Huntingdon and Union. 

 The majority of

the names are from Juniata County.

Several are from Lostcreek

or Lostcreek Valley, including the recipient Elizabeth Sponhauer.

January 27th, 1848 is probably her wedding date.

Elizabeth Sponhauer (1826-1898) married Ephriam Rannels.

He later spelled it Reynolds.

Elizabeth is buried in the Old Church Hill Cemetery in Juniata County. We learn she was a member of the Lutheran Church and had two girls and two boys between 1848 and 1860. 

Catherine Roland of Union County. Her name is on

a woven plaid block, a fabric of no help in dating the quilt although

the reds and blues are useful.

Cables are quilted between the blocks. The triple cables are

a pretty good clue to a Pennsylvania quilting party.

From Elizabeth's obituary: "The deceased leaves a husband with whom she traveled down life’s journey for more than fifty years..." More about him over here:

https://civilwarquilts.blogspot.com/2021/05/oldest-living-civil-war-veteran.html

It would seem that Elizabeth was born into the Mennonite Church as Sponhauers---Henry and Catherine---whose names are on the quilt, are buried in the Lost Creek Mennonite Cemetery.

Five Fair Ladies on the Juniata River from a series of

 1860s stereo photos of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad (note bridge.)

Henry B. Kurtz

Juniatta [sic] County

Perhaps Henry Bard Kurtz

Lost Creek is under the orange arrow,

northwest of Mifflintown

Names on the quilt:

Juniata County

Lostcreek Valley 

Mary Trago

David R. Kurtz

Caroline Jacobs

Henry B. Kurtz

Elizabeth Kurtz

Mary A. Lapp

Lostcreek

Lostcreek (two names for the same place?)

Stephen H. Lapp

Ann Lapp

Margaret Jacobs

John W. Jacobs

Emily Kurtz

Henry Sponhauer

Lovina Sponhauer

Catherine A Sponhauer

Anne Nicholas

Frances Lap (p)

Ann Lapp

Mary A. Lapp

Thompsontown, early 20th century

Thompsontown

Mary Thompson

Sarah Thompson

Blue and Buff print and a pink stripe from Sarah Thompson

Union County

Eliza Hauck

Margaret Hauck

Margaret Harold

Maria Roland

Catherine Roland

Henrietta Roland

Huntingdon County

Emaline Wilson

Matildia Wilson (perhaps Elizabeth Matilda Wilson Fleming 1815 - 1873)

Ann Wilson

"Matildia Wilson

Hundington"

Huntingdon is misspelled. 

Elizabeth's site at Find-A-Grave:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135515298/elizabeth-rannels