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Region: Middle Tennessee
1832 Sarah (Sally) Johnson Durham
Students Home or Keltonburg, Smith [later DeKalb] Co.

5"V x 713"H © TSS 208
fibers: silk
ground: linen
Biography:
Sally Johnson Durham (1817-1949) was one of eight children born to Thomas Durham and his second wife Elizabeth Chiles Johnson. Thomas Durham was a founder of DeKalb Co. and served as the county’s first surveyor.
Description:
Sally’s sampler is very simple, much less elaborate than the sampler worked by her younger sister Jerusha. The inclusion of drawn thread embroidery is unusual in Tennessee samplers.

Photograph courtesy of the owner.
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