Sampler
Maker's Name
Hanly, Ann S.
Location
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Date Made
1841
Maker's Age
10 years old, born March 13, 1831
Dimensions
16 x 19 ⅞ inches
Medium
Silk on linen with Algerian eye, queen, four sided and cross stitches; thread count: 35/inch horizontal, 28/inch vertical
Provenance
The sampler was made by Ann S. Hanly in 1841. It passed to her brother Michael Curran Hanly (1821-1894)(m. to Catherine Alveia Palmer); to their daughter Katherine “Kate” Hanly (1851-1877) (m. to Augustine W. Wright); then to their daughter, Kate Hanly Wright (1874-1964); then to her first cousin, Catherine Palmer Hanly Bradley (01/21/1900-07/13/1982); and then to Catherine Palmer Hanly Bradley’s daughter, Private Collector #33. As such, Ann S. Hanly is the great, great aunt of the current owner, Private Collector #33.
Description
The sampler has seven rows of alphabets and numerals separated by mildly decorative crossbands with a vine and floral border at the bottom and a diamond border elsewhere. At the bottom left of the sampler the verse reads:
Thy image shall depart
One moment from thy daughter’s heart
My own dear and cherished Mother.
The signature reads:
Worked by Ann S. Hanly. Aged 10 years.
St. Catherine’s Academy
Lexington Ky. March 13, 1841
Ann S. Hanly was born on March 13, 1831, at Cliff Cottage in Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky, her father, John Hai Hanly (1788-1867), was forty-two years old, and her mother, Margaret McKenzie (1790-1867), was forty.
John Hai Hanly led an interesting life. According to the Jessamine County, Kentucky Historical Society, he was one of the youngest of twelve children and while in school in Ireland, struck his teacher and knocked him unconscious. He rushed home to tell his brothers who in turn immediately gathered some money and belongings together and put him on the road to a boat for America that very night. He assumed he had killed his teacher and did not find out otherwise for several months thereafter. He arrived in America in 1805.
He was naturalized in Philadelphia in 1813 and subsequently moved 750 miles west to Kentucky in 1813. settling at the northeast of Nicholasville, Kentucky. During the trip to Kentucky the family encountered mountainous terrain that required lowering of wagons down cliffs with ropes. his stepson Robert Montgomery became ill and "died" at age six when they had stopped by a small settlement. The family did not want to bury him there and he was placed in a hermetically sealed casket with a glass lid to be taken to Kentucky. Later in the trip, John noticed vapor on glass, pried off the lid, and found the child was breathing and alive. Robert Montgomery lived to be seventy-two years old!
John took claim of between 500 and 2000 acres and in 1835 built “Cliff Cottage" on a bluff above the Kentucky River, five miles south of Nicholasville in Jessamine County, Kentucky. He was appointed aide-de-camp to Major James Shelby November 29, 1820, and was commandant of 5th division of the state militia.
Ann had nine full siblings including Thomas Burton (1812-1880), John Hilary (1814-1836), James (1816-1899), Lucy M. (1817-1919), Michael Curran (1821-1894), S. Grattan (1823-1902), Mary Eloise (1825-1904), Margaret Frazer (1828-1855), and Edward Francis (1833-1844). Robert Montgomery (1808-1880) (see above), was her half-brother from her mother’s prior relationship with Robert Montgomery, Sr. (1770-?). (Margaret Frazer and “all her sisters” were also educated at “the convent” in Bardstown, per the Jessamine, County, Kentucky Historical Society.)
Ann S. Hanly married James Norton (1827-?), of New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 10, 1853, in Nicholasville, Kentucky and they had one son named Hilary (1854-?). At age forty-five she married Edmund Botts (1810-1881) on September 22, 1876, in Franklin County, Kentucky. AKS knows of no progeny of this union. Edmund Botts was the widower of another AKS sampler maker, Elizabeth Kendall.
Ann S. Hanly died on September 12, 1912, in Asheville, North Carolina and was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. (see ancillary images)
Thy image shall depart
One moment from thy daughter’s heart
My own dear and cherished Mother.
The signature reads:
Worked by Ann S. Hanly. Aged 10 years.
St. Catherine’s Academy
Lexington Ky. March 13, 1841
Ann S. Hanly was born on March 13, 1831, at Cliff Cottage in Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky, her father, John Hai Hanly (1788-1867), was forty-two years old, and her mother, Margaret McKenzie (1790-1867), was forty.
John Hai Hanly led an interesting life. According to the Jessamine County, Kentucky Historical Society, he was one of the youngest of twelve children and while in school in Ireland, struck his teacher and knocked him unconscious. He rushed home to tell his brothers who in turn immediately gathered some money and belongings together and put him on the road to a boat for America that very night. He assumed he had killed his teacher and did not find out otherwise for several months thereafter. He arrived in America in 1805.
He was naturalized in Philadelphia in 1813 and subsequently moved 750 miles west to Kentucky in 1813. settling at the northeast of Nicholasville, Kentucky. During the trip to Kentucky the family encountered mountainous terrain that required lowering of wagons down cliffs with ropes. his stepson Robert Montgomery became ill and "died" at age six when they had stopped by a small settlement. The family did not want to bury him there and he was placed in a hermetically sealed casket with a glass lid to be taken to Kentucky. Later in the trip, John noticed vapor on glass, pried off the lid, and found the child was breathing and alive. Robert Montgomery lived to be seventy-two years old!
John took claim of between 500 and 2000 acres and in 1835 built “Cliff Cottage" on a bluff above the Kentucky River, five miles south of Nicholasville in Jessamine County, Kentucky. He was appointed aide-de-camp to Major James Shelby November 29, 1820, and was commandant of 5th division of the state militia.
Ann had nine full siblings including Thomas Burton (1812-1880), John Hilary (1814-1836), James (1816-1899), Lucy M. (1817-1919), Michael Curran (1821-1894), S. Grattan (1823-1902), Mary Eloise (1825-1904), Margaret Frazer (1828-1855), and Edward Francis (1833-1844). Robert Montgomery (1808-1880) (see above), was her half-brother from her mother’s prior relationship with Robert Montgomery, Sr. (1770-?). (Margaret Frazer and “all her sisters” were also educated at “the convent” in Bardstown, per the Jessamine, County, Kentucky Historical Society.)
Ann S. Hanly married James Norton (1827-?), of New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 10, 1853, in Nicholasville, Kentucky and they had one son named Hilary (1854-?). At age forty-five she married Edmund Botts (1810-1881) on September 22, 1876, in Franklin County, Kentucky. AKS knows of no progeny of this union. Edmund Botts was the widower of another AKS sampler maker, Elizabeth Kendall.
Ann S. Hanly died on September 12, 1912, in Asheville, North Carolina and was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. (see ancillary images)
Owner/History of Owner/Credit Line
Private Collector #33
AKS Catalog Number
2020-090
Sources
Jesshistorical.com
Ancestry.com
FamilySearch.org
Kentucky Marriage Records, 1852-1914
U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918
Ancestry.com
FamilySearch.org
Kentucky Marriage Records, 1852-1914
U.S. IRS Tax Assessment Lists, 1862-1918
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