Rosa Miller Benson (1826-1908), was the oldest of the eleven children of Silas Benson and Nancy Miller Benson. The details of her education are unknown, but she probably attended one of the private female academies that operated in Greenville County in the early nineteenth century. In 1853, Rosa married Samuel Miller Snoddy, a neighboring farmer. Their children were James Robert (b. 1854), Nancy Jane (b. 1856), a stillborn infant (1858), and Mary Louisa (b. 1860). During the Civil War, Rosa maintained the farm while Samuel served in a company of state troops. Following Samuel’s death in 1898, Rosa gave up her own home, and, for the remaining ten years of her life, she lived alternately in the homes of her three children and occasionally visited with other relatives She died on March 25, 1908, her eighty-second birthday.

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ ca. 1880]
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]