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 University).

In 1889, Mary married Dr. Hugh Ratchford Black, with whom she bore five children. In 1894, the Black family moved from Wellford into Spartanburg.

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]