Embroidered sampler: 'Family Record' of the Starkweather family

Dublin Core

Identifier

2006a-304

Title

Embroidered sampler: 'Family Record' of the Starkweather family

Subject

Historic Artifact

Description

This sampler is a framed needlework piece recording the 'Family Record' of the Starkweather family. On the back: "Made by Nancy Starkweather Daniels from her granddaughter, Miss Emma S. Hubbard." "This 'Family Register,' worked by Nancy Starkweather in 1822, was bequested by her to her 'youngest granddaughter.' The latter, Mary Bryant Daniels, took it to Japan in 1896 to decorate her missionary house in Osaka; upn her death in 1909, it was returned to another granddaughter, Emma L. Hubbard of Holyoke, Mass." "Restored by Iona Lincoln, Deerfield, Mass. Framed by Artists Technical Service, Williamstown, Mass., 1999." Marcia Feakes paid for the restoration and preservation and it had been in the library. However, there was no appropriate display area so it came to us to be on display, with a cloth cover to protect it from light. The cover was made by Pat Kennedy. It is hanging in the south vestibule.
Charles Starkweather b. March 6, 1767; Deborah Brown, b. Nov. 22, 1764, m. November 23,1785. James Starkweather, b. Preston, Con. May 9, 1787, d. January 23, 1821. Rodman Starkweather, b. Feb. 7, 1790. Mary Starkweather, b. Dec. 28, 1790. Nancy Starkweather, b. March 13, 1793 (Worthington). Deborah Starkweather, b. December 24, 1794 (Worthington) d. Sept. 1795. Deborah B. Starkweather (Starkwather sic), b. Nov. 2, 1796 (Worthington). Charles Starkweather, b. May 4, 1798, (Worthington) d. March 10, 1813. John Starkweather, b. Oct. 27, 1800 (Worthington), d. 1830. Nathaniel B. Starkweather, b. Aug. 16, 1802 (Worthington). Emma Starkweather, b. April 25, 1805 (Worthington). "Surely to foreign climes we need not range, Nor search the ancient records of our race, To learn the dire effects of time and change, Which in ourselves, alas, we daily trace." "Oh, what is life.. let wisdom meek, Return the slow reply: Say - what is life? To move, to speak. To look around - and die!" "A little mound of turf alone, Soon shades the sensless (sic) breast. The clay-cold sod, the burial stone, But marks our place of rest." Colors are beige, black, turquoise and cream.

Type

Physical Object

Format

48.3 x 49.5 cm (19 x 19.5 in)

Creator

Nancy Starkweather Daniels

Date

1822

Publisher

Worthington Historical Society

Date Available

2006-11-15

Is Part Of

framed, displayed

Medium

Paper

Coverage

Worthington - Worthington Center

Mediator

swu (updated 8/11/2010, ddb), ddb updated 12/20/2018

Source

Frederick Sargent Huntington Library

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