Paul Black (1901-1975) was the youngest child of H. R. and Mary Black. Paul attended the Hastoc School for Boys, then enrolled at Wofford College in 1920. He contracted a severe case of nephritis and withdrew from school. Unlike his two older brothers, Sam Orr and Hugh Snoddy, Paul did not follow his father’s footsteps into the medical profession. Instead, he took responsibility for the supervision of the family’s substantial agricultural holdings. During the early 1920s, the invasion of the boll weevil decimated cotton crops, and the Blacks were among the Spartanburg County farmers who planted peaches in place of cotton. Over the following decades peaches became the dominant agricultural product in the area, and Paul Black was active in agricultural associations and fairs at local, state, and regional levels. At the age of thirty-four, Paul Black married Anna Mabry and they had two daughters, Marianna and Paula. Paul Black died in 1975, at the age of seventy-four.

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