MOLLIE TAYLOR
its telling effect on all who heard her. Such a person was Mollie Taylor!
As to her life span, in her youth and then in the 61 years she spent in the school room (57 years in the Battle Creek Schools), we quote from her autobiography as it appeared in "Education News" and the Battle Creek Enterprise in the spring of 1953 when she would soon celebrate her 80th birthday and she was "giving" the last days of her life in the school room:
"Born July 22, 1873 in Grayson County, Virginia, in a one-room log cabin with a loft. Slept in a trundle bed. Ate food cooked over a fireplace. Dressed in home-spun clothing -- usually browns and tans colored with dye made from walnut bark or walnut hulls. When we came to Nebraska in 1882, I wore a dress with a red and green stripe in it. I thought I was the finest dressed child on the train. Most of our bedding was homespun too. We still have some of the coverlids.
When we came to Battle Creek, Nebraska, in the spring of 1882, I went to school to Miss Collins from Holt
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