Evangelist and temperance advocate Emma Molloy moved to the Ozarks to establish a home for her family while she traveled and lectured throughout the United States. Trusting that her farm manager, George Graham, and his wife Cora could manage the farm and take care of her younger children, she left home and continued her crusade for temperance. Her trust was misplaced and the result was the "Graham Tragedy," so named when George's former wife Sarah was found dead on the Molloy farm. Emma's relationship with George, as well ...
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Evangelist and temperance advocate Emma Molloy moved to the Ozarks to establish a home for her family while she traveled and lectured throughout the United States. Trusting that her farm manager, George Graham, and his wife Cora could manage the farm and take care of her younger children, she left home and continued her crusade for temperance. Her trust was misplaced and the result was the "Graham Tragedy," so named when George's former wife Sarah was found dead on the Molloy farm. Emma's relationship with George, as well as her status as a respected public figure, placed her at the center of a scandal from which she never fully recovered.
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