The sampler has six rows of alphabets separated by mildly decorative crossbands. In the lower field, the signature reads:
Mary Eleanor Galbraith St. Michael’s Jan 12, 1835

The periphery of the sampler is adorned with prominent, ornate, and colorful vine, leaf, and flower decorations, being symmetric on the top and sides, and even more ornate at the bottom with a midline dominant flower.

Mary Eleanor Galbraith was born in 1824 and was the daughter of Samuel Galbraith (1799-1863) and Sally Anne Crume (1807-1874) (who married in Nelson County on April 4, 1822). The family is found in the Spencer County Census for 1830, owning a single female slave.  Samuel Galbraith was a native of Pennsylvania, and worked as a coppersmith.

Mary Eleanor Galbraith (~1824-?), was married in Spencer County, Kentucky to Martin H Capell (?-~1868) on November 29, 1846. Martin H. Capell’s will probate date was November 4, 1868 in Morgan County, Illinois. (In the ancillary images, see The Last Will and Testament of Martin H. Capell, in the Illinois, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1772-1999)

By 1845, the Capell family had removed to Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois.
In the "United States Census, 1860", , AKS strongly feels that Mary E. “Capell” is incorrectly transcribed as Mary E. “Cassell“ in the household of Martin H. “Capell” (“Cassell”). (See the ancillary images.) Both were thirty-six years old in that 1860 census, living in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, with at least four children including: Logan, a fifteen year old male; Della, a ten year old female; John T., a five year old male; and Walker, a two year old male. All were born in Illinois. On the same 1860 census, page 61, there is a Joseph Cassell/Capell, age thirty nine and an Anna J Cassell/Capell, age thirty three, both from Kentucky with three children under eighteen years old. Perhaps Martin’s relative? In the above mentioned will, Martin mentions his “esteemed” cousin, Harrison O. Capell as a co-executor of his estate, perhaps reflecting another migrant family from Central Kentucky to Illinois. 

Significant information is gleaned from the “Portrait & Biographical Album of Morgan & Scott Counties, ILL. Chicago, 1889”, describing the marriage of one of Mary Eleanor ’s eight siblings, (Lucy H. Galbraith to a Mr. Miller): 

"The subject of this sketch contracted matrimonial ties July 19, 1871, with Miss Lucy H. Galbraith. Mrs. Miller was born March 17, 1845, in Jacksonville, Ill., and is the daughter of Samuel and Sally (Crume) Galbraith, who were natives respectively of Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The father was born Jan. 9, 1799, and died at his home in Jacksonville, Ill., July 28, 1863. The mother was born Jan. 21, 1807, and passed away eleven years after the death of her husband in Jacksonville, Feb. 23, 1874. Mr. Galbraith was for many years a coppersmith by trade, and with his excellent wife was a member in good standing of the Christian Church. They were the parents of nine children, of whom Mrs. Miller was next to the youngest. Of her union with our subject there were born three children - Sally Edith, George Ernest and Grace Ernestine, all of whom died in infancy."

The “St. Michael's “ referenced on the sampler is one of the oldest parishes in Kentucky.  Reports suggest the parish school to have opened and closed many times beginning in 1821.

The interrelationships of the Catholic communities in Kentucky are demonstrated in the following text quoted from the St. Michael of Fairfield, Fairfield, Nelson County, Kentucky website:

“St. Michael's has a very rich history dating all the way back to 1792. It was originally established as Cox's Creek Settlement and Gardiner Station in 1792, which is also the same year Kentucky became a state. It was established as the third oldest parish west of the Allegheny Mountains. The original church sat on the site that is now the cemetery. In 1806 it changed its name to St. Michael the Archangel. Twenty-five years later, in 1831 the church moved to its current location on land donated by Henry McKenna. The current church is well over 100 years old, having been built in 1883. And has been called the "cradle of religious vocations in Kentucky," by one historian. 
The original site of the church is now the cemetery and houses many interesting residents. Henry McKenna is a well known bourbon maker, who still has bourbon being produced to this day. He is joined by his family and is buried in the church's cemetery under the tallest obelisk. Mr. McKenna and family are also joined by the tombstone of a famous Revolutionary War veteran, Francis Coomes.   
The current location of St. Michael's Church and cemetery have an interesting origin. Even more interesting are the religious vocations that were born from St. Michael. One particular native, Catherine Spalding went on to found the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. She was followed by Frances Gardiner who would later become a Mother Superior of the Sisters of Charity. 50 of the first 61 years that the Sisters of Charity existed, the Mother Superior was a native of St. Michael's. Another native of St. Michael’s went on to establish Presentation Academy, the oldest operating high school in Louisville, Kentucky. Spalding University in Louisville was also established and named after another St. Michael's native. Richard Pius Miles was also a native who later became the first Catholic Bishop in Tennessee. The first Priest of St. Michael's, Stephan Badin was the first priest ordained in the United States. He later worked in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. While in Indiana he bought land for a college that later became the University of Notre Dame. The first Catholic parish in Louisville, St. Louis Church, was founded in 1811 as a mission of St. Michael's. St. Louis Church is still in existence today, only it is now called a different name. It is now known as the Cathedral of the Assumption. Felix Pitt Newton was a native of St. Michael's who later founded the Pitt Academy which is the most renowned special needs schools in the region.”

Mary Eleanor Galbraith’s date of death is unknown to AKS. The United States Census, 1870, shows that she was still living at age forty six, in Morgan County, Illinois with her same four children, sans her husband, who died circa 1868.