Sarah's Quilt (2005) (edit title/settings)

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• Sarah Elliot: Sarah Agnes Prine Elliott who is telling this story, 43, owns ranch land, feels education is important, teaches her neices and nephews. Sarah had two husbands (both deceased) and six children but only three are living.
• Charlie Elliot: Sarah and Jack's oldest son, 21, left school to work the ranch
• Gilbert Elliot: Sarah's youngest son, also back from school to work on the ranch; 19 years old
• Jack Elliot: Sarah's deceased husband, former a soldier; died in a fire.
• Chess Elliot: Jack's father; Sarah's father-in-law who lived with Sarah after Jack died.
• Granny: Sarah's mother; she had her own home but because of her age came to stay with Sarah once in a while.
• Albert Prine: Sarah's oldest brother, married to Savanna; lived nearby; five children still living at home; father to eight;
• Savannah Prine: Sarah's sister-in-law, married to Albert; mother to eight living children
• Mary Pearl: Albert's and Savannah's youngest daughter; niece to Sarah, 17 years old
• Zack: Zachary, Sarah's nephew, 8 years old, son of Albert and Savannah, schooled by Sarah and his mother
• Ezra: One of Albert and Savanna's children; often with Zachary
• Rachel and Rebecca: Twin daughters of Albert and Savannah
• Clove: Clover, son of Albert and Savanna, their eldest, a quiet man; older than Sarah's Charlie; came back to work to farm after schooling
• Joshua: One of Albert and Savannah's younger children
• Esther: Daughter to Albert and Savannah; two years older than Mary Pearl
• Lazrus: The crazy water witch who Sarah's mother hired to find water; a fanatic
• Udell Hanna: Sarah's new neighbor, bought the Baker ranch; a widower
• Aubrey Hanna: Son of Udell Hanna; a lawyer
• Rudolfo Maldonado: Sarah's widowed neighbor who wants to marry her. His deceased wife was Celia; Luz, Elsa Magdalena were his daughters; he had 5 children, one a son
• Luz: Rudolpho Maldonado's oldest daughter
• Harland: One of Sarah's brother's, lived in San Francisco;father of four (Truth, Honor, Story and Blessing - the only girl); married to Melissa
• Melissa: Harland's wife; stricken with cancer
• Esperanza Von Bracht: Girl who Charlie was attracted to
• Ernest: Sarah's brother, a Corporal in the Cavalry, but not heard from since the war in Cuba; married to Felicity (called Lulubelle), who had left him; Willie's father
• Willie: Ernest William Prine Jr., son of Sarah's brother Ernest
• Mason Sherrill: Sarah's foreman on the ranch but now over 80
• April: Sarah's daughter, married to Morris, lived in Tucson, AZ
• Morris: Sarah's son-in-law, married to April
• Wainbridge: Unfriendly neighbor near Sarah's ranch
• Jim Baker: A neighbor rancher who was selling out because of the drought, moving to Denver, Colorado. His ranch was 5 miles south of Sarah's.
• Flores and Shorty: Hired hands at the ranch
• Cujillo: The family who owned a ranch near Maldonado's.

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• “Even from the porch, I could see in their eyes that they were smiling, although they knew better than to look smart in front of me. One thing I know is that you can't let up on boys. Just because they're big as a man, you give them any slack, and they'll run sidelong into trouble.”

  Sarah Prine Elliott

• “There's strength in the solitude of work. Hot or not, dust and wind and every other torment, hard work is still peace compared to what can worry a person on the inside.”

  Sarah Prine Elliott

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Tucson: A growing city in Arizona where Sarah owned a small house in town; her ranch was out of town but still in Tucson; the university Charlie and Gilbert attended was there. April and Morris lived there, on the north side of town toward the university.
• San Francisco: Where Harlan, Melissa and their children lived until the fire and earthquake. When Sarah and Chess went there, the conditions were terrible.
• Barstow, California: Sarah and Chess's train to San Francisco stopped there for half a day. They ate at the Partridge House restaurant and found a hotel where they left most of their things.
• Savannah and Alberts' ranch: A mile from Sarah's, it was the home Sarah has grown up in, formerly Granny's house. It had a pecan farm as part of it.
• Chicago: Where Harland took Melissa for medical help, from San Francisco.l
• Granny's place: Sixty acres and a small house, near Sarah's ranch
• Sarah's ranch: Many acres. Sarah raised cattle, had several horses, had a house that had been added to and a large barn. With desert all around, there wasn't much natural water on the property.

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by These Is My Words, and followed by The Star Garden: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Nancy E. Turner (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813.54

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Historical
• Books › Romance › Historical