Ozark Mountain Family Lives on Through Quilts Made in Bygone Days – All Otsego

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Sarah Pressler of Sidney stands with the "Calico Cat" quilt made by her mother, Nelle Richter, largely from Pressler's brother's baby clothes. The quilt top was made in 1938. Richter completed the quilting in 1992. (Photo by Teresa Winchester)

Ozark Mountain Family Lives on Through Quilts Made in Bygone Days

By TERESA WINCHESTER
GILBERTSVILLE

Longtime Sidney resident Sarah Pressler grew up in southwest Missouri in the Ozark Mountain town of Springfield. Pressler has numerous family stories to tell of days and ways gone by—for instance, that the 1861 Civil War battle of Wilson’s Creek was fought on her great-grandmother’s farmland and the farmhouse was used for a hospital.  But on September 29, Pressler, organist at Sidney United Methodist Church and Sacred Heart Catholic Church, also in Sidney, told stories related to the 12 family quilts to be exhibited at the 27th annual Major’s Inn Quilt Show in Gilbertsville this Friday through Sunday.

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