In addition to the sentimental inscription shown here, this quilt also bears the embroidered dedication, "Presented by your scholars at Sunnyside, Ohio, 1874."
Students at the one-room Sunnyside School, in Miami County, Ohio, presented this quilt in 1894 to their 21 year old teacher, Eli Hoke. The students whose names are embroidered on the quilt lived on farms clustered around the school’s site.