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Facts and Events
Daily Times-News, The
Monday, January 03, 1977
Grandmother Makes Family Keepsakes
By SYLVIA JOHNSON Staff Writer
SNOW CAMP The tinsel and glitter of this Christmas is being put aside for another year, but two Burlington girls have keepsakes of the season to display in their homes. Louisa and Rhonda ISLEY. both 15 years old. were given quilts handmade by their grandmother. Mrs.. Pearl ISLEY of Snow Camp, as Christmas gifts. Mrs.. ISLEY used a traditional "sunbonnet girl" pattern she obtained from a neighbor. Mrs.. Cleo Griffin, to make the quills She did all the hundreds of minute stitches herself, except those contributed by Dovie Scott (Dovie Delores Graves, wife of Elbert Scott. Dovie's parents are Milly C Isley and Martin Everett Graves[Milly C a daughter of Martin also]) and Eloise McPbersor (I'm sure this is McPherson and she is one of "ours". Just don't know which right now). one afternoon just before Christmas when they wanted to be certain she completed the quilts in time for giving. Mrs.. ISLEY, now 70. planned the quilts six years ago, but the was delayed when she had surgery. The next year she cut the pattern out of the scraps of cloth but got no further then ? because she fell over a stool and broke her elbow, and was unable to sew. The next winter she began anew, but did not complete the quilts. This year she observed. "I was determined to finish them for Christmas." Most afternoons last winter and this past autumn, Mrs. ISLEY sat in a chair by her gas heater and sewed the quilts. She had to stop during the summer to tend the vegetable garden and preserve food. "Besides, quilting is warm work for the summer, and much more suitable when the weather is cold" Mrs. ISLEY said. The quilts she made for her granddaughters are pink and blue, and the designs are appliqued with hundreds of tiny stitches. They are made of 16 squares, each with the appliqued sunbonnet girl. The squares are sewn together, and the quilt top is layered with polyester filling and a lining, and quilted together. Mrs.. ISLEY plans to make quilts for her other three grandchildren as well. This Christmas, she completed the top of a fan pattern quilt for a grandson. Tony ISLEY. and his wife. Becky. She completed the lining, too. but was unable to finish the quilt, so she gave it to them for Christmas with a pledge to finish it. Mrs. Isley's mother. Lucy Graves (Mary Lucy Isley), taught her now to quilt when she was 10 years old. "I may take quilt making as a hobby I can't do anything else but sit and use my fingers." Mrs.. ISLEY commented Presently, she said her hobby is "everything washing, cooking, ironing, gardening. She said her mother also taught her to crochet, knit, and embroider, but she no longer does so because, "I can't see like I used to." Mrs.. ISLEY said she saves her own sewing scraps for making her quilts, and collects scraps from friends and relatives She said a good quilt will last quite a long time when properly cared for. She has been married 52 years, and still has some quilts she had before she was married. "I try to take care of them because it takes a long time to make them." she commented. Mrs. ISLEY is a member of the Hackney- Reese Circle at Cane Creek Friends Church. Some of the members still make quilts on request, and for the church fall festival. They made a quilt for their minister.
Greensboro News & Record
July 21, 1990
Mrs. Pearl Graves Isley
SNOW CAMP - Mrs. Pearl Graves Isley, 83, of 1361 W. Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road died Thursday at Central Piedmont Convalescent Center.
Funeral will be at 3 p.m. today at Cane Creek Friends Meeting, of which she was a member. Burial will be in Meeting House Cemetery.
She was a native of Alamance County.
Surviving are sons, Harold Isley of Snow Camp, Alvin M. Isley of Burlington; sister, Mrs. Florene Graves Staley of Snow Camp; five grandchildren.
The family will be at the home of Harold Isley, 1433 Greensboro-Chapel Hill Road.
Memorial contributions may be made to Cane Creek Friends Meeting or to Central Piedmont Convalescent Center.
References
- ↑ Alamance County Register of Deeds
Book 78, page 502 Pearl Ivey Isley.
Parents:
Reid Graves
Mary Lucy Isley
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