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Mollie Bailey, Circus Owner and Former Confederate Spy

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In Houston, Texas on the I-45 access road and North Main outside Historic Hollywood Cemetery is a roadside marker dedicated to Mollie Arline Kirkland Bailey who has to be one of the most colorful Texas women who ever lived.

Continue reading Mollie Bailey, Circus Owner and Former Confederate Spy

Posted on April 9, 2015January 17, 2021Categories biography, civil war, texas womenTags biography, civil war, history, texas women

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