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Virginia Blanche Molloy

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Virginia Blanche Molloy

Birth
Death
1 Oct 1903 (aged 28)
Logan County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, USA GPS-Latitude: 35.121525, Longitude: -90.0273278
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Virginia Blanche Molloy death certificate is in the Shelby County (TN) Registers Office, Book E, Page 100 under the name Blanche Molloy. It is noted that she died in Russellville, KY.

Virginia Blanche Molloy was the daughter of Blanche Ringgold (daughter of Dr. Ringgold-an Episcopal Minister of Knoxville) & John Calhoun Molloy (son of Col. D. B. Molloy- a Memphis banker). Her mother died when she was only 14 months old. She lived much of her life with her aunt, Mrs. J. W. Moores of Bevier, KY. She graduated from the "Conway Institute," a female college at Memphis, TN. She did post-graduate work there and taught at that institution for a year. She also did substitute work in the city schools of Memphis, TN where she "holds an excellent certificate." After that she took post-graduate courses at the Chicago University. In August of 1897, she was appointed as 9th grade teacher in the Owensboro, Kentucky city school. The demands she placed upon herself to master the best methods of teaching and she was unable to cope with the stress causing a nervous condition resulting in her resignation 4 Dec 1897. She went back to live with Captain J. W. Moores and her aunt in Bevier though spent some time after that with her father in 1900. She died the morning of Oct 8 after a protracted illness which had begun the previous May.
Virginia Blanche Molloy death certificate is in the Shelby County (TN) Registers Office, Book E, Page 100 under the name Blanche Molloy. It is noted that she died in Russellville, KY.

Virginia Blanche Molloy was the daughter of Blanche Ringgold (daughter of Dr. Ringgold-an Episcopal Minister of Knoxville) & John Calhoun Molloy (son of Col. D. B. Molloy- a Memphis banker). Her mother died when she was only 14 months old. She lived much of her life with her aunt, Mrs. J. W. Moores of Bevier, KY. She graduated from the "Conway Institute," a female college at Memphis, TN. She did post-graduate work there and taught at that institution for a year. She also did substitute work in the city schools of Memphis, TN where she "holds an excellent certificate." After that she took post-graduate courses at the Chicago University. In August of 1897, she was appointed as 9th grade teacher in the Owensboro, Kentucky city school. The demands she placed upon herself to master the best methods of teaching and she was unable to cope with the stress causing a nervous condition resulting in her resignation 4 Dec 1897. She went back to live with Captain J. W. Moores and her aunt in Bevier though spent some time after that with her father in 1900. She died the morning of Oct 8 after a protracted illness which had begun the previous May.

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