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Quilt |
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Crazy quilt, 1912 |
Description |
Heirloom crazy quilt made by Cornelia Cutlar (1853-1929) and her daughter C. Delany Cutlar (b.1879, m. Harry D. Convis/Converse 3/26/1901). Cornelia Delany Nobles Cutlar was the great-grandmother of donor Katherine Cutlar Trcka and grandmother of Earlin Cutlar, whose father was Noble Irwin Cutlar. The quilt is totally hand stitched of mostly plain & plaid cotton, wool, & suiting fabrics with a variety of gold thread decorative stitches between pieces. Large squares were joined together for the quilt top with a brown flannel backing and no batting. The initials "C.D.C." are stitched in one corner and the year "1912'" in the opposite corner. "Sumter" is stitched in another corner and "Minn" in the opposite corner. Cornelia Delany Nobles came with her parents (Jeremiah (b. 1828) and Sarah Hulett Nobles) and other relatives to Minnesota territory in 1856 when she was three years old. Coming overland and by boat they landed at Carver, came on to Glencoe and settled nine miles west of Glencoe in Sumter township. A log cabin was their first home. At the time of the Indian uprising, the family with other settlers, went to Carver, but after a few days returned to Glencoe where the women and children lived until all danger was past. The men were able to check on their livestock and buildings from time to time. On December 19, 1872 Cornelia Delany Nobles married John Jones Cutlar (b. August 15, 1847 in New York) He had taken a homestead in Sumter Township in 1870. He farmed the homestead for over fifty-three years. John J. Cutlar died on March 15, 1924 and Cornelia died on August 6, 1929. Their children were Frank E., Merritt, Sarah E., C. Delany, J. Maynard, Lester B., and N. Irwin. Their farm in Sumter Township was later occupied by grandson Earlin Cutlar, wife Shirley, and family. |
Catalog Number |
2013-0005-001 |
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Quilts Crazy Quilts |
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Cutlar, Cornelia Delany Nobles Convis, C. Delany Cutlar Cutlar, C. Delany |