Needlework memorial by Sarah Wyman Woburn, Mass c.1802	Silk embroidered memorial by Betsy Ward Probably New England, c.1815	Sold Betty Holman Massachusetts silk embroidered memorial c. 1800
	Matilda Chadwick silk embroidered memorial, Duxbury, Massachusetts 1826	Judd family needlework memorial South Hadley, Massachusetts circa 1810	Memorial silk embroidery attributed to Clara Lothrop Cohasset, Massachusetts 1809
	Sold Mary Lamson Beverly, MA, c. 1805 silk embroidered memorial	Silk Embroidered Memorial to: Mrs. Hannah Richardson, and John Gilson	Memorial Initialed A H New England c.1820
	Sold South Hadley, Massachusetts 1809 silk embroidery by Hancy (Nancy) Pitkin	Smith / Peirce Watercolor Memorial Waltham, MA c.1836	Charlotte Koon Memorial, York, PA, dated 1821
	Sold South Hadley, Massachusetts 1809 silk embroidery by Hancy (Nancy) Pitkin	Sold Eliza Sprague Stearns c. 1808 Boston, MA silk embroidered memorial	Sold Silk embroidered memorial by Sarah Payson Saunders & Beach Academy Dorchester, MA c.1800
	Sold Antique watercolor memorial to Mary Lothrop, Cohasset, Massachusetts c.1832	Sold Silk embroidered memorial to Greenawalt from Chambersburg, PA	Sold Silk embroidered memorial dated 1819 stitched by Eliza Emerson, Salem, Massachusetts
	Balch School Memorial to John G. & John A. Hillhouse, Providence, RI c. 1806.	Sold Stitched silk embroidered memorial by Mary Ann HuntingtonWoodbury, CT 1805	Sold Silk embroidered memorial by Mary Ann Brown, Providence, RI c. 1815
	Sold Silk embroidered memorial by Adeline A. Greenleaf, Boston, MA c. 1810	Sold Watercolor on silk memorial by Betsy Coolidge dated 1823 Portland, Maine	Sold Mary Gould Memorial, Massachusetts c. 1810
		Sold Sophia Barney wrought this Massachusetts silk embroidered memorial c.1810	Sold Stitched silk embroidered memorial by Mary Ann HuntingtonWoodbury, CT 1805
	Memorials: Although memorials were usually a form of "silk embroidered pictures" they deserve a category to themselves. A memorial needlework picture was one of the expected accomplishments of a young cultured girl c1780 to c1840. These typically show a tomb, mourning figures, and weeping willow trees. They are beautiful, sensitive, and graceful works of needlework art that are highly sought after by the top collectors of antique samplers and needlework. Contrary to popular belief the stitchers of these memorials were not necessarily in mourning over the loss of a loved one but merely creating a popular form of needlework. If they had no one close enough to them to memorialize they may dedicate it to a well known figure that had died or inscribe the tomb "sacred to friendship" or simply leave it blank. STEPHEN & CAROL HUBER (860) 388-6809