Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp 610-611 [Lyon] THOMAS H. MOLLOY, circuit clerk of Lyon county, Kentucky, was born in this county on a farm, January 31, 1848, and is a son of Samuel B. and Maria J. (Reed) Molloy. He was reared upon the parental farm and given a good common school education. The father was killed when our subject was a child, and the lad was thrown upon his own resources. He farmed until 1886, and has spent his life in Lyon county, where he still owns farm lands. On the Democratic ticket in 1886 he was elected circuit clerk of the county, and has been successively re-elected ever since. Prior to this he had served as county assessor for four years, and deputy county assessor four years prior to that. In 1876 he was married to Miss Mary V. Kinsolving, of Lyon county, Kentucky, and they have two children, namely: Walter P. and Ethleen. Both Mr. and Mrs. Molloy are members of the Methodist church, South. Samuel B. Molloy, deceased, was born in what is Caldwell county, Kentucky, and was a son of Demarcus and Anna (Beck) Molloy. Demarcus was born in Princeton, Gibson [sic] county, Kentucky, and from there moved to Caldwell county where he farmed, lived and died. The mother of Samuel Molloy was born in what is now Lyon county, Kentucky, and was a daughter of Isaac and Margaret (Maddox) Reed. Molloy Reed Kinsolving Beck Maddox = Caldwell-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/lyon/molloy.th.txt