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today.A large quilt, also node by Mrs,'• Wilson, made of appiiqued pieces of0 French figured (H jwcrs and birds) j y chintz, a beautiful sample of tine needle* r d work.iB A small American flan? made by the lI ! late Mrs. Ha hel Albright in hrr !0th d yenr.n A fancy work b x made by Miss Key, j1 Hn aunt of Frances Key, author of “The '„ Star .Spangled Banner/1 and pr* sooted| by her to the late Mrs. Sophia Hilde-0 brand (also a granddaughter of Betsy yr, Bose) with the remark that she thought n that the aunt of the author of the v national hymn ought to give something (l to the granddaughter of the maker of || the first Hag. It was made by Miss ,| Key when she was 90 years of age, in:1837.A brass-bound mahogany writing desk owntd by lacoh Wilson, son in-law of Betsy Uoes, bought by him in s 1804, used by his daughter Mrs. At* a brikht, and now in use by her daughter0 Mrs. Robison.h Through the labor of the ladies of ® the Stas and Stripes Chapter a m »n-• ument .?as recently placed over then graveofJohn Morgu, a revolution*r ary soldier buried in Aspen Grovey cemetery at Burlington, an appropria*. tlon being obtained from the Stated legislature for erecting the monument.• On last Decoration day they dedicated’ a bronze memorial tablet to ZebulonM. Pike, the explorer, who unfurled the slais and stripes for the lirst time where Burlington now is on August ”isi23, 1*05, he and his party bjlng pie* ^iep sumably camped where is now Crapo y,‘|1 park. The tablet is set in a huge• , Iowa boulder in Crapo park. Near it f is a flagstaff from which, as occasion•' offers, Hits atine dag, also given by ' ooiStars and Stripes Chapter. ! they \ The ladies of Jean Espy Chapter 1 , who had the pleasure of entertaining 's ^ '• the Burlington n.dns. tuough thejy0* 6 klndneas of Mi-. Ko h ii, w. re:Mesdatue*: M L. H two . v E. Gta-c zier. A. E. Johns n J B. Morrison,1C Laura l'ower, Georg' B Stewart, H.ie J D. MeConc, B Shenhaid. N. C.e Roberts, J. M. ' » • . M s..» c’aro-I *. n lyu Browu, Florence Johnson, Myrtle ei Meyers, Margaret Frailey and Sarah Casey.iai‘.cntcbe*aPiof
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Fort Madison Weekly Democrat
Fort Madison, Iowa, US
Wed, Jun 27, 1906
Page 6
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