Rosa Black (1894-1980) was the third child and oldest daughter of H. R. and Mary Snoddy Black. An excellent student, she enrolled in Converse College in January 1908, midway through the eighth grade, which was highly unusual. Following her graduation from Converse in 1914, Rosa spent the summer in a tour of Europe. She taught school in Spartanburg for several years. Rosa remained single and she and her brother Paul continued to live in the family home after the deaths of their parents. She traveled widely, frequently in the company of her sister Mary Kate and two nieces. She died in 1980, at the age of eighty-six.

During the 1950s Rosa Black (lower left) and Mary Kate Phillips (lower right) spent summers traveling with their nieces, Marianna and Paula Black.