This page updated October 4, 2005
Although it is true that most women in years past did indeed make their own clothing, many of them used a seamstress or dressmaker if there was a need for something "fancy" and if the finances covered it. The difference between a seamstress and a woman who gave her occupation as "sewing" is that most of the time a woman who sewed for profit did this out of her own home. A seamstress/dressmaker either had her own shop in town or she worked in a place of business belonging to someone else.
Owen County
Mattie ROBERTSON--seamstress
Hanah STULL --dressmaker
Elizabeth DAVIS--dressmaker
Cedilia DAY --dressmaker
Elizabeth EAVANS --dressmaker
Sarrah ALEXANDER--dressmaker
Ellen PITMAN---dressmaker
Emaline ENNIS--seamstress
Lively J. CARTER--dressmaker
Laura GINNEY --dressmaker
Maggie WERRETT --dressmaker
Martha BRICK --dressmaker
Sylva MC CORMICK--dressmaker
Biddy REIDY --dressmaker
Jennie EVANS --dressmaker
Lucinda COOPER --dressmaker
Lizzie PADGET--dressmaker
Melinda Elizabeth JOHNSON--dressmaker
Nellie CAHILL --dressmaker
Kate COFFEY--seamstress
Mattie MCDANIELS--seamstress
Margaretta JURY--seamstress
Susan MEAGHER--seamstress
Emma L. LITTEN--seamstress
Laura DAVIS --seamstress
Mary HARDY --seamstress
Almira BIXLER--seamstress
Celia CARPENTER--seamstress
Margret ASHER--seamstress
Matilda FINCHUM --seamstress
Mary J. SEAY--seamstress
Morgan County
Jane N. DORSETT--dressmaker
Mary F. SHUFFLEBARGER --dressmaker
Jessie F BURGETT--lace maker
Mary HAAS --seamstress
Lizza MARS--seamstress
Milly JOHNSON --seamstress
Lenora ROOKS --dressmaker
Eliza DALTON --dressmaker
Alice J. OLDS --dressmaker
Victoria GRIBBIN--dressmaker
Lucinda MILES --dressmaker
Mariah HARRYMAN--dressmaker
Almina H. JOHNSON --seamstress
Cora FRIDDLE --dressmaker
Rachel HARRYMAN --dressmaker
Maggie BAKER --dressmaker
Mary ELGIN --dressmaker
Susan M. WALKER--dressmaker
Louie E. WALKER --dressmaker
Putnam County
Eliza WATSON--dressmaker
Eva F. NELSON--dressmaker
Nannie UTTERBACK --dressmaker
Agnes BYFIELD --dressmaker
Jennie WHEELER --dressmaker
Arminta J. LONG --dressmaker
Kate FINN --seamstress
Sarah A. WILSON--seamstress
Mary FORD--seamstress
Jenna GOODWIN --seamstress
F. A. FAUGHT --seamstress
E. TYLER --seamstress
M. K. SOAPER --seamstress
Ellen D. MORRISON --seamstress
Della FINNELL --dressmaker
Elizabeth WOOD--dressmaker
Hannora OBRIAN --dressmaker
Jennie STUP --dressmaker
Anna OLIVER --dressmaker
Sarah ALBAUGH--dressmaker
Clara WILLIAMS --dressmaker
Adaline ALBAUGH--dressmaker
Liza WALLS --dressmaker
Ada OLIVER --dressmaker
Minie CLASPILL --dressmaker
Nellia GRISSON --dressmaker
Laura KESLER --dressmaker
Mary B. KEETING --dressmaker
Cornelius J. FARLEY --dressmaker
Anna BANNING --dressmaker
E. W. WHARTON--dressmaker
Nancy A. TYLER --dressmaker
Aemercia BRANDON --dressmaker
Ema M. MATKIN --dressmaker
Eva WRIGHT --seamstress
Alice GREENWOOD--dressmaker
Mary Jo BAKER --dressmaker
Annie M. BROWN --dressmaker
Malisa C. CROOKS --dressmaker
Susan J. WILSON --dressmaker
Nancy B. MILLER --dressmaker
Matilda Fritz WEBSTER --dressmaker
Anna L. BROWN --dressmaker
Francis WILSON --dressmaker
Emma CONNER --dressmaker
Sarah E. EDMONSON--seamstress
Carrie L. TURNER --dressmaker
Nancy A. JONES --dressmaker
Phebe M. SHIELDS--dressmaker