Family Quilts: A Quilt from Every Generation for 150+ Years

A customer sent me a quilt for repair, and included photos of her collection of family quilts.  She gave me permission to share them with you here.  What a treat to have this many quilts passed down for so many generations!  And only one, the Grandmother's Flower Garden, was in need of repair.

The owner says:  

I have a quilt from every generation down through ones that my mother made for me and for her 9 grandchildren. My family tree goes back to the Mayflower as a direct descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullin; it also includes James Bell Stevenson, whose brother Adlai was VP of the United States and Secretary of War (equivalent now days to Secretary of State).  

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star (made by the owner's great-great-great-grandmother)
Made by Sara Ann McLure Marsilliott (12-19-1793/8-23-1868)
for her daughter Mary Jane Marsiliott           

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Quilt by
Sara Ann McLean Marsilliat
(Mrs Jacob Marsilliat)
(1797-1868)

Laurel Leaves variation
Made by Mary Jane Marsilliott Ewing (4-15-1819/1-2-1888)
for her daughter Rowena Ewing   

Delectable Mountains
Made by Rowena Ewing Stevenson (James Bell Stevenson)
(4-14-1845/12-13-1927)
She lived with father’s parents for almost 30 years, dying about 1 month prior to my grandmother.  My father was a senior in college at the time.  He remembers her as rather grim.

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made by…. torn
Rowena Ewin…. torn
Mrs James Bell Stevenson (1845-1927)
sister-in-law of Adlai Ewing Stevenson Sr



Windblown Tulip
Made by Annie Mary Stevenson Bullis (4-20-1868/1-23-1828) (William Shufelt)
for her only daughter Ileen Bullis Campbell

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Tulip Quilt  1904
made by daughter
Annie Stevenson Bullis
1868-1928
(Mrs. Wm Bullis)
for
her daughter Ileen Bullis Cambell

printed fabric
Made by my father John Albert Ewing Bullis’ Aunt Ella -
not sure who she was but may be his grandfather’s sister Eliza

New England Block var. - yellow and white
Not sure who made this one   

 

 
Grandmother's Flower Garden
Made by my mother Rosemary McCarthy Bullis (John A E) 

 

Log Cabin Straight Furrow
Made by my mother Rosemary McC Bullis (5-13-2015/1-6-2012) for me for Christmas 2003

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navy/white stripes
I have one more quilt in great condition but it is not from my family

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Property of
Mrs. Elias Lyman
B Rochester Vermont about 1837
D 1914 - age 77
Maiden name Adelaide Frank
given to granddaughter
Louise Lyman Smith, Upton, Laguna Hills

My mother also made quilts for each of her 9 grandchildren. 
My children at at upper left and upper right.