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Mollie Ethel Pickel Hodnett

Birth
Oakland, Union Parish, Louisiana, USA
Death
18 Jan 1953 (aged 86)
Burial
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1885 April 10: Mollie and two others left to join six others as representatives at the Cotton Exposition in New Orleans.

1885 May 15: Mollie was among a group of 17 who were tested and granted certificates to teach in the public schools of Union Parish. 24 April 1855, Mollie took charge of a school in Oakland. She continued to teach in the Parish until she went off to college.

1889: Mollie graduated Peabody Normal College in Nashville, where she met her husband J.O. Hodnett. She was one of five graduates that year from Louisiana and he was one of five from Alabama.

They both taught school in Louisiana and in Arkansas. In 1900 he was principal of a school in Oak Ridge, Morehouse Parish LA and Mollie was a school teacher. He was superintendent of schools in Union Parish for 12 years, before moving to El Dorado AR in 1913.

1920 Census: Waldron, Scott County AR
1930 Census: Selma, Grant Parish, LA
1940 Census: Big Rock, Scott County AR

Mollie and husband Joseph Oscar Hodnet were parents of four daughters - Bessie May, Lucille P., Ethel M., and Helen Beatrice.

Obituary: Mrs. J.O. Hodnett. Relatives in Farmerville were informed Tuesday morning of the death of Mrs. J. O. Hodnett, 90, at her home in Little Rock AR, Monday. Funeral services and interment were in Little Rock Tuesday afternoon. Besides her husband, Professor J.O. Hodnett, she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J.H. Babington, Miss Beatrice Hodnett, and Miss Ethel Hodnett, all of Little Rock; two sisters, Mrs. L.W. Landers, Mansfield, and Mrs. James A. Lindsey of Monroe. She was a daughter of the late W.J. and Nannie Gulley Pickel, early resident and natives of this community. Mrs. Hodnett, together with her husband followed the profession of teacher for many years. They taught in Union parish for a long time before moving to Little Rock many years ago. (Farmerville Gazette: Thu. 22 Jan 1953, p.1)



1885 April 10: Mollie and two others left to join six others as representatives at the Cotton Exposition in New Orleans.

1885 May 15: Mollie was among a group of 17 who were tested and granted certificates to teach in the public schools of Union Parish. 24 April 1855, Mollie took charge of a school in Oakland. She continued to teach in the Parish until she went off to college.

1889: Mollie graduated Peabody Normal College in Nashville, where she met her husband J.O. Hodnett. She was one of five graduates that year from Louisiana and he was one of five from Alabama.

They both taught school in Louisiana and in Arkansas. In 1900 he was principal of a school in Oak Ridge, Morehouse Parish LA and Mollie was a school teacher. He was superintendent of schools in Union Parish for 12 years, before moving to El Dorado AR in 1913.

1920 Census: Waldron, Scott County AR
1930 Census: Selma, Grant Parish, LA
1940 Census: Big Rock, Scott County AR

Mollie and husband Joseph Oscar Hodnet were parents of four daughters - Bessie May, Lucille P., Ethel M., and Helen Beatrice.

Obituary: Mrs. J.O. Hodnett. Relatives in Farmerville were informed Tuesday morning of the death of Mrs. J. O. Hodnett, 90, at her home in Little Rock AR, Monday. Funeral services and interment were in Little Rock Tuesday afternoon. Besides her husband, Professor J.O. Hodnett, she is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J.H. Babington, Miss Beatrice Hodnett, and Miss Ethel Hodnett, all of Little Rock; two sisters, Mrs. L.W. Landers, Mansfield, and Mrs. James A. Lindsey of Monroe. She was a daughter of the late W.J. and Nannie Gulley Pickel, early resident and natives of this community. Mrs. Hodnett, together with her husband followed the profession of teacher for many years. They taught in Union parish for a long time before moving to Little Rock many years ago. (Farmerville Gazette: Thu. 22 Jan 1953, p.1)





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