Quilts with History....

 

 

The quilts were made by my great grandmother Carrie Maxsom Brown Driver.  The history of her gets to be complicated.  Her first husband was Charles Brown of Illinois. They had two boys, Leroy Martin and Ira.  Great Grandfather Charles died when my grandfather Leroy was three years old.  Great grandmother Brown then returned to Iowa where her sisters lived, one of them was her twin sister.  She then remarried a man named Thomas Jefferson Driver.  They eventually lived in Lucas, Iowa a coal mining town.  All of my younger years I was told that Grandma Driver made the two quilts and it confused me with the last name not being Brown.  What was more confusing was that my mom was calling her Grandma Driver when it was her grandma but my great grandma.  Anyway, I have the quilts. 

 

 

So this is more than a Photo a Day blog as here is a picture of Great Grandma Driver. It is her second family of five kids and grand kids.  She had two daughters and three sons. The daughters both married and all three of the sons did not marry.