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Sr Mary Raphael Woolfolk RSM

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Sr Mary Raphael Woolfolk RSM

Birth
Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, USA
Death
16 Jun 1926 (aged 81)
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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"Sister Mary Raphael" Woolfolk was born Ann Mary Woolfolk one of the children of Robert Owen Woolfolk and his wife Mary Elizabeth Enders.

Sister Mary Raphael was of the Sisters of Mercy in New Orleans, Louisiana where she took her novitiate. She chose British Honduras to be her place of service, teaching art and music.

Sister Mary Raphael received a special dispensation from the Pope in 1890 in order to return to the covenant of St. Martinsville in Louisiana. She passed away at the young age of 81. She is interred with her fellow Sisters of Mercy.

Source: Genealogies of Kentucky Families from the Registers of the Kentucky Historical Society, VOl. III
"Sister Mary Raphael" Woolfolk was born Ann Mary Woolfolk one of the children of Robert Owen Woolfolk and his wife Mary Elizabeth Enders.

Sister Mary Raphael was of the Sisters of Mercy in New Orleans, Louisiana where she took her novitiate. She chose British Honduras to be her place of service, teaching art and music.

Sister Mary Raphael received a special dispensation from the Pope in 1890 in order to return to the covenant of St. Martinsville in Louisiana. She passed away at the young age of 81. She is interred with her fellow Sisters of Mercy.

Source: Genealogies of Kentucky Families from the Registers of the Kentucky Historical Society, VOl. III

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