Adaline Suftin Terrell (or Addie as she was called) was the daughter of John T. and Mary Alexander Gilliland Terrell of Covington County. John moved from Georgia to the Mississippi Territory in 1817, the same year that Mississippi became a state. Adaline's mother, Mary Gilliland, was the daughter of a South Carolina Presbyterian preacher and schoolteacher. Born March 24, 1830, Addie was the sixth of their ten children. She grew up on the family farm along the Bowie River and attended Zion Seminary with some of her brothers and sisters. In 1852 she married a prosperous and highly respected merchant. After the death of her second husband, it's likely that Adaline moved back to the family homestead, living with the family of her youngest brother, Jasper Terrell, until her death in 1867. Addie had no children and her possessions including a pieced quilt and this sampler descended through the family of Jasper. The sampler eventually came to be owned by Addie's great grand niece, Bettianne Sweeney, who made a partial gift of it to Colonial Williamsburg. From https://emuseum.history.org/objects/92308/sampler-by-adaline-s-terrell;jsessionid=19F1DE0EC79DB037BC984CE50B6F5E58
Contributor: ALaura Askins (48514849)
Contributor: ALaura Askins (48514849)
Adaline Suftin Terrell (or Addie as she was called) was the daughter of John T. and Mary Alexander Gilliland Terrell of Covington County. John moved from Georgia to the Mississippi Territory in 1817, the same year that Mississippi became a state. Adaline's mother, Mary Gilliland, was the daughter of a South Carolina Presbyterian preacher and schoolteacher. Born March 24, 1830, Addie was the sixth of their ten children. She grew up on the family farm along the Bowie River and attended Zion Seminary with some of her brothers and sisters. In 1852 she married a prosperous and highly respected merchant. After the death of her second husband, it's likely that Adaline moved back to the family homestead, living with the family of her youngest brother, Jasper Terrell, until her death in 1867. Addie had no children and her possessions including a pieced quilt and this sampler descended through the family of Jasper. The sampler eventually came to be owned by Addie's great grand niece, Bettianne Sweeney, who made a partial gift of it to Colonial Williamsburg. From https://emuseum.history.org/objects/92308/sampler-by-adaline-s-terrell;jsessionid=19F1DE0EC79DB037BC984CE50B6F5E58
Contributor: ALaura Askins (48514849)
Contributor: ALaura Askins (48514849)
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