Wallace, Cornelia Ellis Snively, 1939- .

Cornelia Wallace was born 1939 January 28 to Charles and Ruby Ellis in the City of Elba, in Coffee County, Alabama. The family later moved to Cullman after the death of Sarah Folsom, wife of Ruby's brother James, to help raise his two daughters. Upon "Big Jim" Folsom's election to the Governor's seat in 1946, the Ellis family moved into the Governor's mansion in Montgomery, with Ruby acting as official hostess.

It was during the first Folsom gubernatorial campaign, that the young Cornelia, at the age of six, first became involved in politics by folding and passing out campaign literature for her uncle Jim.

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