Mollie Arline Kirkland Bailey
BAILEY, MOLLIE ARLINE KIRKLAND (1844?-1918). Mollie Bailey, "Circus Queen of the Southwest," the daughter of William and Mary Arline Kirkland, is believed to have been born on November 2, 1844, on a plantation near Mobile, Alabama. As a young woman she eloped with James A. (Gus) Bailey, who played the cornet in his father's circus band, and was married on March 21, 1858...
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