The sampler suffers from significant thread loss and fading. It has four rows of alphabets at the top separated by minimally decorative crossbands. Below are two poems and the first reads:
To the Author of my being
to one (illegible) virgin are below
(illegible)
teach me the way I ought to go
to act a virtuous part

The second poem is similarly difficult to read due to thread loss but probably reflects a variant of a common proverb in mid-nineteenth century English language and seen on many other samplers which reads:
When friends
are dead and
money spent then learning will be most excellent.

Below are another two rows of alphabet and the signature which reads:
Cynthia Nall . War . born . the
10 . day . of . March . 1804.

The "4" of 1804 appears different than the other numerals and may have been altered.

Cynthia Nall was born on March 10, 1804, in Franklin County, Kentucky, when her father, Martin Nall (1772-1835), was thirty-one years old and her mother, Lucy N. Finnell (1779-1851), was twenty-four. Cynthia had fifteen full siblings including Sarah Yancey Carvenor (1796-1807), Elizabeth (1798-1828), Robert Finnell (1800-1820), Eupha (1802-1814), Mary (1806-1885), Sarah (1808-1808), Evalina (1810-1870), Dulcenia Virginia (1812-1880), Emerine (1814-1814), RoseAnn M. (1815-1874), Jeptha Dudley (1817-1898), Martha Ann (1819-1878), Thomas (1820-1830), Benjamin Taylor (1822-1825), and Patrick Sidney (1824-1829).

Cynthia Nall married Richard Sidney Quinn (1787-1870) on May 10, 1824, in her hometown. Richard Quinn was a school teacher before becoming a farmer. They had six children including Benjamin Taylor, Rev. (1825-1895), Amanda (1827-?), Richard S. (1829-?), Lucy Ann (1831-1912), Sarah Frances (1834-?), and Cynthia (1837-1837).

Cynthia Nall died as a young mother, possibly during childbirth with her namesake, on June 1, 1837, in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, at the age of thirty-three years old.