The maple leaf

my grandmother Powell's maiden name was maple. There is a story told about a Man in the civil war who was on the confederate side of the war.
Maple was going across country on his way home in Texas to see his wife and children. By night fall he was near the home of a cousin and he stopped to visit and spend the night. After the evening meal was finished the family gathered around the fire place to visit with their guest.
As they spoke of friend and relatives and told what they knew about how their lives had been spent the last few months while Captain Maple had been a way, the lady took up her sewing basket and began to work on a quilt block.
Captain Maple expressed a desire to take the pattern to his wife and the lady graciously cut a pattern for Mrs Maple. The Captain placed the pattern in his pocket.
The next morning Maple continued on his journey. At about 10 O'clock The Captain Maple encountered a Yankee patrol and received a fatal shot to the heart.
The people buried his body and sent his personal possessions to his grieving widow.
There the widow found the quilt pattern and it has been known there after as the Maple Leaf pattern.