101 years after she was laid to rest, Mollie Woodruff gets headstone
“It’s been talked about through the decades,” Elena Williams, president of the Memphis chapter of the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities, said of a headstone for Mollie Woodruff. “There’s been some speculation that maybe that’s why Mollie’s soul hasn’t been at rest, because her grave was never marked.” On Sunday, May 19, Woodruff received the headstone, 101 years after she was laid to rest in Elmwood Cemetery. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
The headstone marks the grave of a woman who died in 1917 and whose spirit is part of tours of the Woodruff-Fontaine House in Victorian Village. Her real life story was remembered Sunday in Elmwood Cemetery.
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