My Side of the Story - Part I - Quilt Competition Artists

Mary Sellers Harrell Quilt - 1885

Harrell Collection

Quilt made by Mary Sellers Harrell of Cairo, Georgia while it was still a part of Thomas County, c.1885. Made sometime after her marriage to John Oscar Harrell, the quilt was passed to their son John Arthur Harrell, and then to his daughter, Pauline Harrell Hewlett. The quilt was awarded a first-place ribbon by the Georgia Quilt Project and exhibited at the Atlanta History Center in 1991.

Courtesy of Thomasville History Center

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