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Nellie Moore Bezenek

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:

April 5, 1863

PLACE OF BIRTH:

City of Birth:

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DATE OF DEATH:

December 30, 1903

PLACE OF DEATH:

City of Death:

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GENDER:

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OTHER KNOWN NAMES:

Mrs. Joseph Bezenek*, Nellie Moore Beznick

ETHNICITY:

RACE:

NATIONALITY:

DATE OF MARRIAGE:

PLACE OF MARRIAGE:

MAIDEN NAME:

Moore

DATE OF ADDRESS:

KNOWN ADDRESS:

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West Superior

Wisconsin

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ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:

ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

AT THE TIME OF the fire

ROLE:

Audience Member

STATUS:

Victim

AGE:

40

MARITAL STATUS:

Married

other information

MORGUE:

Buffum

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FUNERAL HOME:

CEMETERY:

Hart Cemetery, Hart, MI

OTHER NOTES:

Died in the Iroquois Theatre fire along with 11 Moore family members. Daughter of Benjamin Moore, mother Estella Shufelt MacKay and grandmother to Roland Mackay.

CITATION:

The Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois) 02 Jan 1904, Sat, page 3
Find a Grave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66456645/nellie-beznick
McCurdy, D. B. (1904). Lest We Forget: Chicago's Awful Theater Horror. Chicago: Memorial Publishing Company, accessed https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39280/39280-h/39280-h.htm, p136

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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