Mary M. Mollie Or Emma was born in 1853 in Ohio.1 Mary M. Mollie Or Emma's father was Joseph Yates and her mother was Eve. Her paternal grandfather was Yates. She had six brothers and a sister, named James, Isaiah, Joseph, Charles, Alfred, John and Emaline. She was the second youngest of the eight children. She died at the age of 48 in October 1901 in Kennett, Dunklin, Missouri.1