May thy future hours be given
To peace, to virtue, and to heaven.
Oxford, Jany 17th /52 Mary A. Sperry
Mary Ann (Cable) Sperry dau of Roswell & Hannah (Chatfield) Cable
b: Mar 08, 1820 Oxford, New Haven, CT
md 1st: George Sperry Nov 19, 1845 Oxford, New Haven, CT at St. Peter's Episcopal Church
md 2nd Edmund Lewis Doolittle Apr 05, 1868 Oxford, New Haven, CT
Age calculated to be abt. 32 when signing quilt.
Wedding at St. Peter's Church, see Sharpe, page
110
See family at OxfordPast.net
Their house is pictured on page 128 of Images of Oxford. (Available from Oxford Historical Society, Inc.)
The family is mentioned in Davis' Reminiscences of Oxford.
Sibling of Glover W. Cable, State Representative from Oxford in 1887. See William C. Sharpe, Oxford Sketches and Records, page 178.
Attended neighorhood Chestnut Tree Hill School in Oxford (See l887 school picture)
Photo of parents -- Roswell & Hannah (Chatfield) Cable
She married another signer of the quilt, George Sperry
Attended neighorhood Chestnut Tree Hill School in Oxford (See l887 school picture)