Mary Melanie Holliday

Mary Melanie Holliday (born Martha Ann Holliday; December 14, 1850 – April 19, 1939) was an American Catholic religious sister. As a member of the Sisters of Mercy, she served as Mother superior at the Convent and Academy of St. Vincent de Paul in Savannah and at the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Atlanta. While living in the convent in Savannah, she worked as a schoolteacher in the affiliated academy. When Holliday moved to the convent in Atlanta, she worked as a nurse at St. Joseph's Infirmary.

Biography Holliday was born Martha Ann Holliday in Jonesboro, Georgia on December 14, 1850. She was one of eight children of Captain Robert Kennedy Holliday, a Confederate military officer and quartermaster who served in the 7th Georgia Infantry during the American Civil War, and Mary Anne Fitzgerald, whose family owned Rural Home Plantation. She was a cousin of the gambler and gunfighter John Henry "Doc" Holliday and of the landowner and businesswoman Annie Fitzgerald Stephens. She had a close relationship with Doc Holliday, frequently writing to him throughout her life.

During the Civil War, Holliday and her mother and siblings took refuge in Valdosta on the farm of her uncle, Henry Burroughs Holliday.

She died at the age of 88 at St. Joseph's Infirmary, and she is buried in the Sisters of Mercy lot in Westview Cemetery.