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Note: The following is from the HArtwell Sun, May 10, 1884.
Recently we were shown a curiosity in the shape of a quilt. It is called the
Grandmother Bowers Album Quilt." It was gotten up as a family record of the
Bowers family, beginning at Polly Bowers, mother of 13 children, and quilted
just after the war. It gives a complete list of the children, grandchildren,
and great grandchildren up to the time it was quilted. The squares are cut to
represent a tree. The first tree has 13 limbs with a flower at the top of each
limb, and a child's name in each flower, and so on to the 4th generation, each
tree having limbs according to the total number of children in the different
families. The total number at the time the quilt was finished was 242. The
number of descendants at present is supposed to be 350. The 5th generation has
arrived.
Old Aunt Polly Bowers, as everyone called her, was a good woman, setting a
worthy example for her posterity to emulate. Her husband, who was an ornament
to society, died many years ago. Aunt Polly died at the advanced age of 89.
She could well say: "Arise daughter, go to thy daughter, for thy daughter's
daughter has a daughter." The quilt is now in the possession of Polly
Williford. (Note difference of spelling of last name in this article. As of
1997 there are Willifords in Hart Co., but no Willfords.) Children listed here
were gotten as members of the family of Reuben and Polly from census records of
Hart C. 1860. Some sources say only one daughter was born to them, and she
married George Washington Wilson, and had a daughter Charlotte who drowned in a
well on the Willoiford place.
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