The sampler has nine rows of alphabets and numbers separated by simple to minimally ornate crossbands. Row nine terminates in a folky bird and below this is the signature line, “Lucretia Bevins”. A moderately ornate crossband of vine and berries separates the signature from a quaint and well executed scene of trees, grass, flowers, bird, fence, and a five bay, dual chimney house. The entirety of the above is surrounded by a thoughtful, symmetric, six-layer, cross stitch border.

Lucretia P. “Creasie” Bevins was born on May 24, 1833, in Big Creek, Pike, Kentucky to Thomas H. Bevins (1788-1847) and Elizabeth Porter (1789-1833). Her siblings included Lucinda (1802-1874), Delilah (1810-1856), Joseph (1812-1890), Anna Susie (1813-1880), Thomas Jefferson, Jr (1815-1887), James M. (1817-1870), Mary Polly (1819-1894), Elizabeth (1821-1880), Malinda (1922-1900), Sarah J. (1824-1877), John P. (1826-1830), Andrew Jackson (1828-1912), James Madison “Matt” (1830-1913), and George Washington (1833-1936).

Lucretia was married April 21, 1847 in Pike County, Kentucky to Henry “Dutch” Smith (1824-1892) who held the rank of Private in the CSA. Their children included Malinda S. (1848-1931), James Madison (1848-1928), Emily Ann “Emma” (1851-1927), Elizabeth Jane “Betty” (1855-1927), Mary “Polly” (1855-1932), Martha Jane (1861-1899), Sarah Elizabeth (1866-1949), Monterville “Mont” (1868-1937), and Annie (1874-1920).

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Lucretia P. Bevins died in February 1899 in Pike County, Kentucky.