Flexner Family Names on a Signature Quilt - Part 2
from Ann Quilts
You'll find the full backstory to this post on a post from April, 2018. Here's a short summary.
Back in the 1980s, I'd found three people with my mother's maiden name, Flexner, on a 1910 fundraiser quilt at the museum in Kalona, Iowa. They were not included in the genealogy that my mom knew, so we went exploring. And after a circuitous and long route, I finally unearthed the answer:
My great-great-grandmother and the mother of the man named on the quilt were cousins. They both had married men from the Flexner family. So this quilt ...
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