Medium Silk on linen with Algerian eye, cross, four-sided and straight stitches; thread count: 27/inch horizontal, 27/inch vertical
Provenance The sampler was made by Susannah Brandenburg in 1836. It was sold at a Montgomery County, Kentucky auction in the 1980’s to Mark Boultinghouse Antiques who sold it to a central Kentucky collector at the Locust Grove Antique Fair in Louisville, Kentucky. The sampler was then sold to Private Collector #18.
Description The sampler has nine rows of alphabets and numbers separated by narrow crossbands. The signature line reads:
SUSAN*NAHBRANINGBURG AGE 14
CLARK COUTY KY Anno domini *1836NOV23
There is a circumferential flower and vine border at the periphery of the sampler.
When Susannah Brandenburg was born on September 4, 1823, in Clark County, Kentucky, her father, David, (1772-1842) was fifty-one years old, and her mother, Susannah, (~1785-~1842) was thirty-eight. Her sisters included Sarah Belle (1809-1835), Catherine (1813-1880), Elizabeth (1817-1862), Mariah (1817-1836) and her brothers were Sanford (1811-1845), Joseph (1815-1893), George Washington (1819-1842), James (1825-1833), Samuel (1827-1886), Jonathan H (1830-1870) and James (1834-1870).
She married David Otho Beall (1802-1882) on October 22, 1838, in her hometown when he was thirty-six years old and she was fifteen years old. They had two children during their marriage, William Rezin (1840-1842) and Nancy Jane (1841-1919).
Susannah Brandenburg died when she was eighteen years old on May 5, 1842, in L and E Junction, Clark County, Kentucky, and she was buried at the Beall Cemetery in Clark County, Kentucky.
