MISS RUBY REMEMBERS MOLLIE'S STORIES One afternoon in the summer of 1932, Ruby (Nettles) Vance (1910‐2003) visited her Grandma Mollie for the purpose of taking notes on some of the Civil War stories she had always heard her little grandma tell. Mollie's story, as told by Miss Ruby, made its /irst public newspaper appearance in April of 1979, and it is parts of her story that are related below.
Mollie holding Miss Ruby's daughter ca. 1938. Notice the rocker? It does appear to be the same one in the ca. 1917 photo of Mollie in the collage.