THE MYSTERY OF
THE ABC SCHOOL SAMPLER Kitturah Taylor, in 1833, designed an ABC School Sampler to commemorate her parents, five siblings and childhood friends. Kitty, age 13, under the guidance of her mother Sallie Durham, stitched sets of ABCs, numbers, names, initials, and symbols on hand-woven linen cloth. Symbol motifs commemorated her love of friends and family, migration from Virginia to Missouri in 1835, and marriage to William Brisco in Warren County, Missouri. Family members included in a set of initials. ST VT FT MT EPT EAT SBT Upon completion Kitty 'signed' the sampler in the last row of stitchery: Kitturah Taylor, b. Jan. 13,1820. Over time knowledge of the names corresponding to the initials became obscure. Memories and family oral traditions erased by migration, the Civil War, and early mortality due to tuberculosis, cholera, and pneumonia. Five generations later a great-great granddaughter of Kitty carefully removed the sampler from a broken picture frame and marveled at its origin. Who is Kitturah Taylor?
Kitturah Taylor born Jan 13 1820
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