Date Range : 1930-1950

Fabric Type & Color : Cotton. Juvenile print with bears, cats, dogs, ducks, lambs, and rabbits playing like children. Batting is thick cotton. Binding is the backing brought to the front and machine stitched. Backing is a yellow-dyed feed sack with visible feed trademark "Good Value Feed/100 lb wt/Sweet Dairy Feed"

Quilt Size : 64" x 85"

Block Size : N/A

Construction : Pieced by machine.

Quiltmaker : Edith Monteith (b 16 Sep 1915 in Jackson County,d 15 Jul 2001) or Edna Monteith (b 22 Feb 1908 in Jackson County,d 25 Jun 1988)

Locale : Dillsboro (Jackson County), NC

History/Comments : The Monteiths' father, Elias, and his brother, Sam, operated a mercantile store near the present site of the Jackson Manufacturing Co, formerly Meade Corporation until the business failed several years later. Elias farmed a few years before becoming postmaster for the Dillsboro Post Office until his retirement. Edna, the oldest daughter, was the clerk at the Dillsboro Post Office for 45 years. Edith never worked away from home and lived in the three-story house located in Dillsboro until she died in 2001.