Louisa Fontain Morris was born on May 17, 1818, in Franklin County, Kentucky, when her father, John (1776-1860), was forty-two years old, and her mother, Ann (1887-1858,) was thirty-one. Louisa’s siblings included Elizabeth (1803-1861), Anne Innes (1805-1888), Sarah F.(1807-?), Harry James (1810-1889), Charles Dabney (1814-1862), Mary Hannah (1815-?), Catherine Maria (1821-?), Susan Dabney (1823-?), and Francis Steptoe (1828-?).
Louisa married John Logan Blaine on June 13, 1835. They had one daughter, Louisa Morris Blaine (May 2, 1836–April 9, 1917), who married James Breading Gazzam in 1857.
Louisa and James Gazzam had Joseph Parker Gazzam (sampler donor) on January 26, 1861, in St. Louis. He worked as a mining engineer in Missouri, Colorado, and South Africa, before returning to St. Louis. He witnessed the Leadville, Colorado, miners' strike of 1896. He died January 27, 1954, in St. Louis, Missouri.

Louisa Fontaine Morris died on May 21, 1836.

This incomplete sampler has a circumferential vine and fruit/strawberry border surrounding six rows of alphabets and numbers in the upper half of the field, separated by colorful but fairly narrow crossbands. In the mid portion of the sampler is the tenth verse of The Universal Prayer by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) which reads:

Teach me to feel another’s woe
To hide the faults I see
That mercy I to others show
That mercy show to me

Below this the signature reads:
Louisa Fountain Morris’s sampler
made in the 12th year of her age Feb 25
1831

The lower quarter of the field is unadorned.