Description:
Collar in hand-embroidered cotton on cotton mull in the "Ayrshire" design, which belonged to Ruby Graves Stebbins (1796-1877), the wife of Zabina Stebbins (1797-1879) of Deerfield who married in 1819. There are three notes in the data file from Florence Stebbins Shaw (Mrs. Albert E. Shaw) of Webster, Massachusetts: "The fichu [collar]...belonged to Ruby Graves Stebbins. Given to her great grand daugher Florence Stebbins Shaw by Carrie Lamb Ward in 1933.." and "Given by Carrie S. Ward to Florence S. Shaw in 1933 - Lace collars and cap belonging to Florence's great grandmother Ruby Graves Stebbins" and "Worn by Mrs. Albert Shaw's great grand mother Ruby Graves Stebbins of Deerfield - She was born in 1798." Carrie Lamb Ward (b.1862) was the daughter of Laura Stebbins (b.1837) and Thomas Lamb (1830-1881) of Worcester who married in 1860, and the great granddaugher of Zabina Stebbins and Ruby Graves Stebbins. Carrie married George William Ward (1858-after 1930) of Worcester in 1881. Born Florence Copeland Stebbins (1888-1966), Florence Stebbins Shaw married Albert Elmer Shaw (1886-1952) in Deerfield in 1913 and then lived in Webster, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Charles Henry Stebbins (b.1859) who married Mary Elizabeth MacMahon (1858-1919) of Providence, RI, in 1880; granddaughter of Evander Graves Stebbins (1821-1885) and Matilda Childs Stebbins (1824-1885) of Deerfield; and great granddaughter of Zebina Stebbins and Ruby Graves Stebbins of Deerfield.
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