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Mary Louisa Snoddy Black (1860-1927) was the daughter of Samuel
Miller Snoddy and Rosa Miller Benson Snoddy.
She grew up on her family's farm
on Jordan's Creek, near Wellford, in Spartanburg County, South
Carolina. She was educated in local "old field" schools and attended
Williamston
Female College (which later became Lander
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In 1889, Mary married Dr.
Hugh Ratchford Black, with whom she bore five children. In 1894,
the Black family moved from Wellford into Spartanburg.
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The Black
Family [ca. 1906]
From left to right: Sam Orr, Rosa, Dr. H.R., Hugh Snoddy, Paul, Mary Kate, and Mary Black. Photograph courtesy the Black family. |
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In 1925, Dr. Black and two of their sons
established a new clinic and, in honor of their wife and mother,
named it the Mary
Black Hospital. Following a long illness, Mary Black died at
this hospital in 1927, at the age of sixty-six. Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ ca. 1880] The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880] The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880] |
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