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Nellie Moore Bezenek

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:
April 5, 1863
DATE OF DEATH:
December 30, 1903
GENDER:
F
OTHER KNOWN NAMES:
Mrs. Joseph Bezenek*, Nellie Moore Beznick
MAIDEN NAME:
Moore
ETHNICITY:
KNOWN ADDRESS:
 West Superior 
 WI

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:
40
MARITAL STATUS:
Married
ROLE:
Audience Member
ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:
ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:
Hart Cemetery, Hart, MI
MORGUE:
Buffum
IDENTIFIED BY:
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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