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Topic: Pieced In Paradise
Conf: Russell County Queries, Msg: 34307
From: Deleted User
Date: 2/26/2002 02:10 AM

In 1934 in Paradise, Russell Co. KS there were 42 ladies who made a quilt top. Among them were my Grandaunt, Maude May (Hendershott) Dwinelle, her daughter Maude "Louise" (Dwinelle) Hoopes & daughter-in-law Esther Belle (Bourne) Dwinelle.

The quilt was purchased by Roberta Hofmann & she began her research into the story of this quilt & these 42 ladies who each made a square with their names embroidered on them.

This wonderful book is now available on CD, complete with many great photos of these ladies & their families & many excerpts from the "Paradise Farmer" newspaper along with their biography's. I, along with many other descendants of these ladies were able to contribute to Roberta's project.

The other "ladies of the quilt" were: Ardilla Jane (Ritzel) Benfield, Dora (Whittel) Isenberger, Myrtle (Hesse) Houser, Kate (Crawford) McCall, Margaret Elizabeth (Kirkendall) Bartlett, Eunice (Daniel) Kirkpatrick, Laura (Hesse) Houser, Argolia Bell, Clara Esther (Beers) Martin, Tinnie Marlow, Cora (White) Brown, Anna (Helscher) Boedeker, Nancy Ann (Kirkpatrick) Harrell, Sella (Sullivan) Pooley, Katherine (Pfeifer) Whitman, Junia (Sullivan) Eberhart, Maude (Bishop) Dodson, Emma (Barth) Helscher, Bertie Day, Margaret (Hancock) Benfield, Nora Addington, Edna (Snyder) Hancock, Elsa M. Wilcox, Mary Ewing, Ada (Worley) Angel, Sylvia (Ziegler) Helscher, Anna Hockett, Fannie (Houser) Shores, Florence (Bell) Fink, Vera (Boedeker) Pickett, Lelia (Whitman) Bartlett, Ula (Bartlett) White, Vera Post, Vesta (Boedeker) Henry, Hazel (Dodson) Harrell, Lydia (Bartlett) Houser, Zilpha (Benfield) Mark, Edna Nelson & Leona Hawkins.

Any of the relatives of the above ladies will find "Pieced In Paradise" a special tribute to them all. I highly recommend it.

Roberta's sister, Pamela is a book distributor. She has set up a website with two of her books on CD on the website. It can be viewed at:

http://www.balogh.com/hofmann/hofmann.html. Balogh International Inc, Genealogy, Kansas Quilts

To order, just e-mail:
balogh@balogh.com