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Caroline Lamb, Family Record, Phillipston, MA, 1817 (cont.)3Lucinda Eldredge, Tuscarawas, Stark County, Ohio, 1830Born on February 26, 1819, Lucinda Eldredge was the daughter of Nathan and Catherine (Thacker) Eldredge of New York State. Published histories of Stark County, Ohio indicate that Nathan removed to Tuscarawas by 1811 and had his wife join him four years later; Lucinda was born there. At age eleven, she worked this very attractive sampler with its alphabets and appealing verse. The beautifully stitched border is formed of meandering vines of blossoms and serrated leaves that grow from a wonderful patterned vase at the center of the lower border. In 1839 Lucinda married another Stark County resident, William Moffatt (1815-1896). Portrait and Biographical Record of Stark County Ohio (Chicago, 1892), states that William, %u201cranked among the well-to-do and enterprising agriculturalists of Stark County.%u201d In addition to his success at farming, which involved a 165 acre farm that he developed from wilderness, William was for some time the owner of a shop in Dalton. William and Lucinda raised three two daughters and a son. William died in 1896 and Lucinda in 1907; they are buried in the Massillon City Cemetery in Stark County and the sampler descended in the area for many generations. The verse on the sampler is one of our favorites: %u201cTeach me to feel another%u2019s woe / To hide the fault I see / That mercy I to others show / That mercy show to me.%u201d Worked in silk on linen, the sampler is in excellent condition; it has been conservation mounted into a cherry beveled frame with maple bead.Sampler size: 16%u00bd%u201d x 16%u00be%u201d Frame size: 20%u00bd%u201d x 20%u00be%u201d Price: $12,500.Caroline was the oldest of nine children born between 1804 and 1817. Her mother died within monthsof the birth of her last child, and Caroline made her sampler just two months after that. Many publishedtown records and family genealogies provide information about the Lamb family, indicating that in 1828 Caroline married Samuel S. Green. They resided in nearby Barre and then in Lowell, and had eight children. Samuel was a blacksmith and machinist who, according to Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memories Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts (New York, 1908), invented a machine for cutting horseshoes. Directories in Lowell include mention of Samuel from 1845 to 1872.Worked in silk on linen gauze, Caroline%u2019s sampler is in excellent condition. It has been conservation mounted into a mahogany inlay frame.Sampler size: 20%u00be%u201d x 17%u00bc%u201d Frame size: 25%u201d x 21%u00bd%u201d Price: $8200.