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  • Gold oval pendant with twitted edge decoration and two locks of hair. Collected by Robert Schmitt who was a jeweler for Drake Jewelry.
  • Oval gold pendant with two out rings, one engraved and one twisted gold, containing two locks of hair. Collected by Robert Schmitt who was a jeweler for Drake Jewelry.
  • Possibly contains the hair of George Wallace Alcorn who was a Confederate who was a Prisoner of War. Alcorn was a member of Morgan's Raiders captured in Ohio.
  • Oval shaped brooch with locks of hair woven in a flower design on both sides. Brooch was worn by Frances Ann Thruston Ballard (1826-1896) and contained the hair of 4 of her children who lived to maturity; Charles, Abby, S. Thruston and Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston .
  • Oval shaped brooch with a lock of hair from William Churchman Crawford (1823-1848) given to their mother Anna Maria Churchman (1792-1877) by his sister.
  • Worn by Sarah Elizabeth "Sallie" Hord Ingram (1832-1893), grandmother of Selena Pope Ingram McKinley who inherited the brooch.
  • Brooch with black enamel and gold lettering "In Memory of". Gold decorative rim surrounding glass that contains brown braid. Initials "UOB" on the back. Belonged to Urath "Urith" Owings Brown (1791-1854) and then Sarah Lawrence Brown Pope (1810-1884).
  • Collected by Robert Schmitt who was a jeweler for Drake Jewelry.
  • Collected by Robert Schmitt who was a jeweler for Drake Jewelry. "Mother" engraved on the back.
  • Collected by Robert Schmitt who was a jeweler for Drake Jewelry.
  • Mourning brooch containing the hair of the Miller-Bohannan-Bullitt families. Belonged to Emily Miller Bohannan after 1836; from Thomas Bohannan. Might be for one of the seven children she lost.
  • Mourning brooch with gold lettering "In memory of." Contains hair of members of Bohannan-Miller-Bullitt families
  • Mourning brooch containing hair of a member of the Miller-Bohannan-Bullitt family.
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