Mary Elizabeth "Mollie Day" Vance

GEDCOM Note

Mollie's mother died when Mollie was 5, leaving her to be raised by her 60 year old father. According to Lucille Kain, she was raised in a convent (and yet her father did not die until she was 22 and married?). Little wonder she married at age 14. See LA marriage index 1718-1925, #1. She also had a 9 yo half brother (John Colberson Taylor Jr.) and possibly a much older half brother (J.A. Vance, Jr.?) to contend with. Evidently, in 1883, John C. Taylor and Mollie Vance fought over the partition of a 220 acre plantation tract north of Baton Rouge originally owned by John's father and bought by Elizabeth Day Taylor after her husbands death.