Item: Child's memorial sampler in original frame

Reference #: 5939

Status: sold

Dimensions: 10 inches by 12 inches

Condition: excellent and all original

Year: dated 1886

Description: An incredibly touching mourning sampler commemorating the loss of a child.  This sampler was no doubt made by the child's grieving mother.  How poignant and sad the text of the sampler is:  
"In loving memory of John Smith who died May 18,1886.  Aged nine years and one month.  Not gone From Memory.  Not Gone From Love. But gone to His Father's home above.  He is not dead but sleepeth near." 

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