Medium Silk on linen with cross, four-sided, Algerian eye, and rice stitches; thread count: 31/inch horizontal, 25/inch vertical
Provenance Completed on April 4, 1830 by Mary Ann Glascock. At an as of yet unknown date, the sampler was donated to The Loretto Archives by Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Rhodes, McDaniel, Kentucky via Rev. Fr. Jerome Hoepf. It was sold from the Loretto Motherhouse Archive by Cowan's Auctions, Spring Americana: Fine & Decorative Arts Sale, lot #320, June 23, 2007 to Private Collector #21.
Description This marking sampler has five rows of letters and numbers separated by rows of decorative bands and is housed in an unusual tray frame. The tray/sampler was used during religious services/Mass in the Catholic Church. The inscription reads:
Mary Ann Glascock April 4th 1830
Mary Ann Glascock was born on January 3, 1816, in Kentucky to Frances 'Fannie' Dailey, age seventeen, and William Rector Glascock, age nineteen. Mary Ann Glascock married Thomas Johnston McGinnis (b.1813, Fayette County, KY, d. October 27, 1877) in Grant County, Kentucky, on October 26, 1836, when she was twenty years old. They had five children: Martha A. Elliston (b. November 16, 1838), Elizabeth Webb (b. October 4, 1844), Arabel Webb (son) (b. September 25, 1847), Melissa Pattie (b. March 3, 1849) and Willie Jane (b. November 25, 1853).
Mary Ann Glascock died on June 18, 1898, when she was eighty-two years old. She is buried in Williamstown, Grant County, Kentucky.
