The sampler shows cross stitching a with plain border, double upper case alphabet, two lower case alphabets and numbers, separated by rows of geometric designs, over a field decorated with pictorial images including two baskets of flowers and trees and a large center tree with bird atop the branches. There is general fading and discoloration, a 1/4" dark stains at left center and lower center (near base of tree) with other lighter scattered stains in alphabet/number rows and at the lower edge of sampler.

Signed:
Jane Rogers her work aged 11 years 1831.

Jane Rogers was born on July 12, 1820 in Nelson County, Kentucky. Her father, Joseph Rogers (1787-1849), was thirty-three years old and her mother, Anne Lone Rogers (1792-1849), was twenty-eight. Jane had nine siblings including Benjamin Lone (1812-1852), Matthew Tarleton (1815-1868), William Casey (1818-1896), Sarah (1820-?1856), Elizabeth Ann (1822-1912), Joseph Fountain (1824-1851), Lucretia (1827-1844), Jeremia (1829-1836) and Henry Clay (1836-1921).

On November 20, 1840 at twenty years old, Jane Rogers married Thomas Marshall (1818-1886) of Larue County, Kentucky. They apparently had five children: Joseph M. (1845-1922), William Taylor (1847-1912), John Thomas (1848-1921), Elizabeth Ann (1853-?) and Mary Jane (May 24, 1856-June 6, 1934). According to the 1850 census, the couple lived in Larue County, Kentucky, Thomas was a blacksmith, and the couple had three young male children.

Jane Rogers Marshall died on June 14, 1856 of what was described as "Congestive Chill" in the Larue County Death Records. She was buried in the Middle Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Hodgenville, Larue County, Kentucky. (Please see the gravestones of Jane and Thomas in the ancillary images.) Thomas Marshall remarried in 1857 to Lavinia Allen Jones (1828-1879), a widow with two children. Thomas Marshall died on December 8, 1886 and is also buried in the Middle Creek Baptist Church Cemetary (as was Lavinia who died on February 10, 1879).