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Date:
1857
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Location:
PA., MD and FL
Description
My parents’ bedroom furniture included a massive four-poster bed, an enormous chest of drawers, so tall; I could not see the top of it. Adjacent to it was a dressing table with a swerve mirror. It was made of rich cherry wood, with fascinating scrollwork and ornate ivory pieces on the chest.
My mother stated her great grandmother, Savilla, gave the furniture to her when she was a young girl. Savilla’s father had the bedroom suite built from trees on the family farm in Pennsylvania in 1857 as a wedding gift to his daughter, Savilla. She wanted the furniture inherited by a daughter, then a granddaughter. Of Savilla’s daughters, only one, Mary, had a daughter, Eva (born 1891), but Mary died two years later in 1893. Savilla raised two-year-old Eva as her own daughter. When Eva married in 1911, the furniture stayed at her grandmother’s house. Savilla, said, when the time was right, it would go to Eva’s daughter, Nan, my mother.
Being the oldest daughter, my mother wanted me to have this family keepsake and the bedroom furniture became mine when I turned twelve in 1962. I truly treasure these pieces for the love of mother - daughter they represent.
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