Illinois Genealogy Trails
Coles County, IL
Merry Mixers Club Friendship Quilt
Dorans, Coles County, Illinois
Contributed by Michael Markwell whose says:
"My sisters and I inherited a “friendship” quilt which, after examining it closely and consulting with one
of our elder cousins, we have concluded was assembled by a “ladies aid” group who gathered in the rural community
of Dorans, Illinois in the mid-to-late 1930’s. My cousin was not yet 9 years old at the time and is uncertain if
the Merry Mixers Club met weekly or monthly for a shared meal, quilting and socializing. (We
unfortunately did not think of asking her mother, who was one of the participants, for more information before
she died last year at the age of 93.) I thought the names on the quilt might be of interest to other researchers."
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Merry Mixers Club |
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Members of the Merry Mixers Club |
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Merry Mixers Club Friendship Quilt  contributed by Chuck Ozee DrCKO at comcast.net Etta Shadow Mary Green Maude Swayze Nellie Daniels Nell Ozee* (My grandmother) Ella Floyd* Lois Ozee* (My aunt) Bessie Swayze Blanche Morris Christina Weber Florence Seaman Irene Knollenberg (nee Ozee, my aunt) Thelma Swayze Mollie O. (Mary Elizabeth Ozee, my great-aunt) Maude Green* Dora Andres Esther Miller* Katherine Wilhelm* Christine Clow* Hilda Jones* Myrtle Roche* Christine Wilcoxen* Edna Hite* Margaret June Ozee (my cousin) Eva Adams (my great-aunt) Josephine Homann* Nellie Seaman* Nell Holtgrewe* * On both quilts. I remember some things about this group told by my grandmother. The club consisted of local ladies who got together from time to time to have a quilting bee. I don't think it amounted to much more than that. My mother told me that it was going on while she was dating my father in 1939, but disbanded within the next couple of years. Not all names on the quilt were members. For example, Margaret June Ozee was born in 1932, so she would have been too young. Mollie Ozee, my grandfather's sister lived in California, my great-aunt Eva Adams likely would not be that inclined. My grandmother was a member, but I didn't see her name on the other quilt. It's my guess that those with names on both quilts likely were members and other names were "fill-in" names for the number of squares in the quilt. |
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