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Note: ing "Anna P Frailey" was used on her marriage license, but she was always only known as Ann Fraley to her grandson James Bernard Moore,Jr.
While visiting Aunt Faye in Henderson on December 20, 1993, she gave me an old quilt. Pinned to the quilt was a note saying: _________
"This quilt was started by Etta Watkins Fraley about 1858. During the Civil War Yankee soldiers robbed the Fraley home and tried to take these quilt pieces but Anne Celeste Fraley about 12 years old held to them and begged to soldiers not to take them because her mother had given them to her. She pulled, screamed and fought until one of the Yankee soldiers said "Well keep it, you little devil." This was all that was saved except the clothes they wore.
The quilt was finished about 15 years later after Anne Fraley married J. P. Moore. The velvet scraps are scraps from old colonial dresses of Mrs. Fraley's and Anne's. The grey satin scrap is of Anne's wedding dress. The scrap embroidered J. A. B. was made by Janny A. Burgess a neighbor. The yellow satin scrap with a lady in a riding habit painted on it, is the lining of a silk hat that belonged to a Methodist preacher.
Anne Celeste Fraley Moore had one child, James Bernard Moore, my father.
Edith Moore Hale"
Note: Her picture was taken as she lived in Dallas Tx with her son. The spell
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