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    Family Connections: Martha Harness and Elizabeth Ann Darst Bierce

    Jul 12, 2017 2 minutes
    By Alden O’Brien

    Curator of Textiles, Daughters of the American Revolution Museum

    Martha Harness’s Framed Medallion

    Three generations worked on the two quilts in this article, over the course of half a century and 480km.

    Elizabeth Yoakum Harness helped her six-year-old daughter Martha compose the centre of the framed medallion in 1794

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