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An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
Laurel Horton, Seneca, SC


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Mag Drummond:
Margaret Drummond (1851-1927) was known as “Cousin Mag” by members of the Snoddy and Black family. She was the daughter of S. N. Drummond and Ann Snoddy Drummond (the sister of Samuel Miller Snoddy). Mag Drummond remained unmarried throughout her life. At the time of the 1870 Census, she was nineteen years old and living in Greenville with her married sister, Buena Vista Westmoreland, who had a year-old daughter. Later she frequently stayed at the home of her widower cousin James Robert Snoddy, often sewing for his sons or cleaning house. The 1910 Census enumerated Mag Drummond, age fifty-nine, as living with the family of her brother Jasper. Ten years later, she was listed as a sixty-nine-year-old “servant” in the home of Frank Woodruff, in the town of Woodruff. On August 4, 1927, J. R. Snoddy noted in his journal that “Cousin Mag died last night.”

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]


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Published: 19 May 2006

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