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Jessie Lee Jones
Jessie Lee Jones, quiltmaker, married Sam Jones, and the couple had ten children, eight of whom lived to adulthood. Sam and Jessie Lee were farm workers and sharecroppers on several cotton farms in the northern Louisiana, Caddo and Shreveport areas. Jessie Lee was an ardent Baptist, looked forward to her church activities, and sang in the choir. Jessie Lee quilted all her life for cover, using sewing scraps and things people would give to her. Jessie Lee learned to quilt from her mother, who had been taught to quilt by her mother, and so there was a three-generation tradition of quilting in Jessie Lee’s family. They saved and used many feed sacks for the backings of their quilts. Sometimes they quilted with the thread they unraveled and saved from the feed sacks.
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