Quilt (or decorative throw), Crazy pattern

The beautifully designed Crazy Quilt illustrated here is exceptional for a number of reasons, the most important being that it is one of the few well-documented examples of a mourning quilt. It was made as a memorial after the death of twenty-year-old Grace Gertrude North (May 24, 1836-February 13, 1877), the only child of Tamar and Benjamin North of North's Landing, Indiana.
The quilt's maker, Tamar Horton Harris North, was born on January 23, 1833, near Quercus Grove, Indiana. On May 19, 1852, she married a well-to-do farmer, Benjamin F. North (February 7, 1830-January 22, 1877) and went to live with him at North's Landing on the Ohio River. Benjamin North was a well-to-do farmer. During the Civil War, Benjamin was a captain of Company C, 83rd Indiana Volunteers, Infantry. After serving for three years, he was discharged because of ill health and returned to North's Landing. We do not know what killed Benjamin and Grace within a month of each other in the winter of 1877.
We assume that Tamar North started work on the quilt soon after her daughter's death. If it was indeed made in 1877, this is a fairly early example of a Crazy quilt. It is pieced of silks and silk velvet, but there are also pieces of cotton and cotton lace. According to family history, North made the quilt from pieces of Grace's dresses, and the types of fabrics used and the unusual additions of bits of lace seem to bear this out. Many symbols of Grace's death ornament the quilt; her name is embroidered at the center, with a calla lily to each side, and in the block to the right, there is a patch inscribed with purple ink that records her birth and death dates. The same block includes a patch that is painted with an angel. Judging from surviving diaries, sewing seems to have been a great comfort to the nineteenth-century woman in times of sorrow.
[Peck 2015; adapted from Amelia Peck, "American Quilts & Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," 2007]
　

Inscription: inscribed in purple ink: Grace Gertrude North. / Born March 24, 1856 / Died Feb. 13, 1877.