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Hamilton excited to share family quilt at fair
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COSHOCTON – Brenda Hamilton is excited to share a
piece of her family’s history with fairgoers and maybe
help them find some of their own ancestors.
A 101 year old quilt passed down through Hamilton’s
family will be on display in the art hall as part of the vin-
tage quilt category. Her great-grandmother Anna Powell
helped create the quilt that bears the names of 570
people who are believed to have mostly been residents
of Coshocton and Tuscarawas counties.
Her cousin Harold Hixon Jr. had the quilt and then
passed it on to Hamilton’s cousin Linda Boyce who
loaned it to Hamilton. Hixon also shared with Hamilton
a write up he put together about the quilt. In his notes he
explains that after World War I, “church congregations
in Coshocton and Tuscarawas counties became con-
cerned about widows and orphans of soldiers who were
killed during the war.” It was decided that a name quilt
“I’ve spent hours indexing the
names. People will be able to say a
family name and I’ll be able to look
to see if it is on here.”
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would be made and used as a fundraising project to help
these families.
Hamilton’s great-grandmother was put in charge
of organizing the quilters. The Dresden Plate Pattern
quilt has 20 panels and each square has 23 names on it.
Hamilton isn’t positive, but she thinks the names along
the outside edges could be people who donated money
to help with the project.
“I want to share this with other
people to hear their stories and
link histories.”
- Brenda Hamilton
quilt owner
“I’ve spent hours indexing the names,” Hamilton said.
“When I give it back I want to know who is on here. Peo-
ple also will be able to say a family name and I’ll be able
to look to see if it is on here.”
She hopes to have her book with the indexed names
at the fair with the quilt and also is creating a website to
post the information on. A majority of the names come
from the Bakersville, Fresno, and Stone Creek areas.
While studying the quilt, Hamilton discovered part
of it is dedicated to the Camp Fire Girls, there are two
doctors on it, two preachers, and she is pretty sure Dr.
Crile and Dr. Lower’s mothers are on it. It also bears the
name of Guy W. Powell, who was once superintendent of
the fair’s poultry department.
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