Mollie Ellen Hemphill was born 6 October 1882 in Marion County, Arkansas. She was the daughter of Henderson P. Hemphill and Margaret S. Holderby.
Mollie first married Edward Homer Couch on 3 March 1904 in Boone County, Arkansas. They were the parents of a son, Herbert O. Couch (born 1905) and a daughter, Nina Mae Couch (born 1906). This family appears on the Federal Census in 1910 for Prairie Township, Searcy County, Arkansas (S.D. 3, E.D. 110, Sheet 12). Not long afterward, the family removed to Hill County, Texas, where Homer died of tuberculosis on 26 December 1916. He was 35 years old. In 1920, Mollie and children are again recorded on the Federal Census living in Hill County, Texas (J.P. #3). Mollie eventually met and married Virgil Aubrey "Jack" Baty probably about 1923. They are shown in Census records for Oldham County , Texas in 1930. They apparently divorced. In 1940, Mollie is recorded as a "widow" and living with her son Herbert on the Census records for King City, Monterey County, California,(Page 16B, E.D. 27-23). Mollie(Nola) and Jack had a daughter named Verna. Verna married Frank Leroy Gowin. (Verna died in 2009 and Frank in 2004). California Death Records indicate that Mollie(Nola Baty) died 24 February 1964, San Luis Obispo County, California. Mollie was buried at the Greenfield Cemetery, Greenfield, Monterey County, California.
Son, Herbert O. Couch married Hazel Idress Sportsman and daughter Nina Mae Couch married James Madison Speer.

OBITUARY
The California Newspaper
Salinas, California
25 February 1964, Page 2

"KING CITY
Nola Ellen Couch, 81, former Greenfield resident, died at a San Luis Obispo
hospital yesterday.
Born in Arkansas, she is survived by one son in Sparks, Nev., two daughters,
Nina Speer of Texas and Verna Gowin of Paso Robles, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Graveside services will be held at Greenfield Cemetery Thursday at 10 a. m. under direction of the Ree C. Grim funeral home of King City."