Family history tells us that Belle Abram probably made this quilt in England. Started in 1799 and completed in 1808, Abram used the popular mosaic patchwork technique sometimes called template piecing or English paper piecing.

The history of this quilt also records the patterns of migration of one Wyoming family and the preservation of family history from generation to generation. Nancy Harris inherited the quilt from her grandmother Cathryn Harwood Bowman (1885-1965) who had also inherited the quilt. The Abram quilt was the oldest documented by the Wyoming Quilt Documentation Project according to the October 8, 2003 Saratoga Sun.