The sampler's background linen is in two pieces, the upper piece contributing 75% of the total area and the lower 25%. Because of discontinuity in the vine and leaf border and the peripheral border, the possibility is raised of the sampler having undergone later shortening to perhaps remove a hole near the current junction of the top and bottom pieces, but this is conjecture. The circumferential vine and flower border surrounds seven rows of alphabets and numbers separated by narrow crossbands with the signature:
Elizabeth Kendall
Aged 14 Year 1827

The empty space below the signature may suggest the sampler was partially unfinished but this is conjecture.

Elizabeth Kendall was born on April 9, 1813, in Fleming County, Kentucky when her father, Rawleigh Kendall (1787-1864), was twenty-five years old and her mother, Margaret Stephens (1792-1849), was twenty-one. Elizabeth’s siblings included Obanian A. (1815-1862), Francis Macart (1817-1866), Adaline (1819-1874), America (1822-?), Monroe (1825-1829), Amanda R. (1827-1896), Emily (1830-1840) and Rawleigh Jr. (Rolla) (1834-1877).
Elizabeth Kendall married Edmond Botts (1809-1881) on September 14, 1833, in her hometown. They had two children during their marriage, Jennie Jane Botts (1836-1914 who married James Henry Dudley with no known children) and Margaret Kendall Botts (Botte) (1834-1909 who married William Talmadge Armstrong, MD and they had ten children).

Elizabeth Kendall died when she was thirty-six years old on September 21, 1849, in Fleming County, Kentucky and is buried in the Fleming County Cemetery in Flemingsburg, Kentucky.