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Region: Middle Tennessee
1835 Lemyra Vincent
Little Dog Group
Mooresville, Maury Co.

1712"V x 17"H © TSS 173
fibers: silk
ground: 26 V/32 H ct. linen
Biography:
Lemyra Vincent (1822-1859) was the only child of John Vincent, Jr., and his first wife, Mahaley Liggett. Her mother died from complications of her birth. John Vincent owned a farm near Mooresville, Maury Co. (later Marshall County). In 1858 Lemyra married Robert W. Tindell, a farmer in nearby Maury County. Like her mother, Lemyra died from complications of childbirth. She had one child, a little boy, who died at the age of 2 ½.
Description:
Lemyra’s sampler is part of the Little Dog group, samplers dating from 1831 to c. 1852. Her sampler, worked in silk on linen, is contains the distinctive characteristics—a small canine, a two-story house, scattered birds, a square floral cartouche, and a floral border.
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