"Wood Lily" and Pillow Slips

Wood Lily

"Pinwheel" & "Lemoyne Star"

Wild Rose Mourning Quilt

"Migration of Geese"

"Prairie Star"

"Schoolhouse" & Sylvia Doll

 
Anna Elizabeth Marshall Clothier

Prairie Quilts & Pioneer Stories is the first in a three-book series that tells the dramatic and poignant story of my great grandmother, Anna Elizabeth Marshall Clothier.

Little girls in their calicoe dresses.

This book portrays Anna’s life at the age of seventeen when she married an eighteen-year-old Union soldier, James Byron Clothier, in 1868, and their move to Kansas after the Civil War. These stories have passed through the Clothier family from letters, courthouse records, published accounts and from mother to daughter, father to son and grandparents to grandchildren.

Mother and babe.

These stories include the covered wagon trip from Missouri to Kansas and living in a sod house, her twenty-four years of childbearing which brought seventeen children into the world, of which only two babies “failed to thrive,” the grasshopper plague of 1874 as well as Anna’s fear of angry Indians. Her children provided stories of tragedy and humor. The prosperity achieved by this remarkable family against all odds is inspiring.

Picking wildflowers on the prairie.

“Prairie Quilts & Pioneer Stories” contain full size patterns, color suggestions, yardage and pattern instructions for all projects. Quilt designs include five pieced quilts, three appliquéd quilts and pillowslips, one quilt that is both pieced and appliquéd, and a primitive cloth doll named Sylvia. There are projects for both beginning and experienced quiltmakers.