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#30 Carolina Mystery Pattern

Quilter Mary Walker (1844 - 1908)

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The original quilt is displayed at the Oconee History Museum in Walhalla. Mary Walker was born in the Pickens area in 1844. She married Osmond Walker, a farmer and Civil War Veteran, in 1864. They made their home, raised five children, and had a very successful farm in the Madison area of Oconee County. She died in 1908 and is buried in the old Tugaloo Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Numerous examples of this bold, distinctive appliqué pattern survived from the late-19th century, but the name of the pattern has not yet been identified. Almost all of the known examples were made in North or South Carolina or in western states settled by Carolinians.

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