Mary Kate Black Phillips (1896-1994) was the fourth child and second daughter of H. R. and Mary Black. She graduated from Converse in 1917, with a Certificate in Art, and served for a number of years she served as the society editor for the Spartanburg Herald. In November 1927, Mary Kate married Dr. Morton Elbridge Hundley, age forty-nine, but during their wedding trip in Switzerland, her new husband contracted pneumonia and died soon after Christmas. In 1933, Mary Kate married John Phillips, the son of oil magnate Frank Phillips. They made their home in the Governor’s Suite in the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, Texas, and traveled frequently. After John’s death in 1950, Mary Kate and her sister Rosa continued to travel, accompanied by their nieces.

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]