Westminster Expands Quilt Trail

The home of Melanie and Scott Burton on Theo Martin Road in Westminster has been added to the Upstate Heritage Quilt Trail.  The quilt pattern is Dutch Doll and was originally made by her grandmother, Ruth Azilee Shirley Black.  Mrs. Black was born in the Earles Grove Community of Oconee County in 1913 and died in 1993.  She was married to Henry Fletcher Black, a dairy farmer, and they had two children, Henrietta Black Harbert and Joe Henry Black.  According to Mrs. Burton, “Ma-Ma Black had six grandchildren and made each of her granddaughters a Dutch Doll quilt and each of her grandsons a Fisher Boy quilt.” Ruth Black was a member of the JOY Club at Earles Grove Baptist Church.  These ladies often gathered together to quilt.  Mrs. Burton remembers going to Ma-Ma Black’s house and spending a week during the summer and often on weekends.  “She always let me play in her trunk of scrap material.  She would give me a needle and thread and let me sew to my heart’s content.”  For more information and pictures, click on www.UHQT.org.