Provenance Made by Emalina White in ~1820-1830. Sold by Garth's Auctions, Inc.- Auctioneers & Appraisers, Sale 1122, Lot 339, Nov 28, 2014 to Private Collector #19.
Description The sampler shows the alphabet, a large floral urn on lower portion, bordered on three sides by delicate vine and the signature line:
EMALINA WHITE W
AS BORN IN NOVEMBER 8 1815
IN KENTUCKY STATE GREEN
UP COUNTY MARY GRANT (Mary Grant presumably being her instructress.)
Emalina was probably the Emeline White, born November 2, 1815. recorded as the first child of Daniel White (1792-1857), when he was twenty-three years old, and Sarah Osborne (1796-1851), age nineteen, both of Greenup County, Kentucky. She had four siblings, Serena (1817-1872), America, (1822-1893), Columbia, (1826-1897) and Enslow (1828-1865).
By 1832 her family had moved to Scioto County, Ohio, where Emalina married Simeon Wood (1804-1896) and gave birth to five children, Martha (1833-1834), Elizabeth (1835-1897), Sarah (1837-1906), Clinton (1841-?) and Ruth (1841-1858).
Emalina White died on June 8, 1875 in Harrison, Scioto County, Ohio and is buried in Minford, Ohio.
