A journey that began in 1881 in the town of Sealy, Texas, when Daniel Haynes, cotton gin builder, filled a request for a cotton-filled mattress. Fifteen years later, Haynes sold his patents to a Texas Company that retained the Sealy Brand. Soon after, a brilliant advertisement executive Earl Edwards penned the slogan “Sleeping on a Sealy is like sleeping on a cloud.” And with that, Sealy mattresses were a national phenomenon.