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Mate Farmer Moore

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

DATE OF BIRTH:

June 10, 1869

DATE OF DEATH:

December 30, 1903

GENDER:

F

OTHER KNOWN NAMES:

Mary Farmer, Mate Ellen Farmer, Mrs. Perry Moore*, Mary Farmer Moore, Mattie Moore

MAIDEN NAME:

Farmer

ETHNICITY:

KNOWN ADDRESS:

Hart

MI

AT THE TIME OF the fire

AGE:

34

MARITAL STATUS:

Married

ROLE:

Audience Member

ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION:

ORGANIZATIONAL ROLE:

other information

CEMETERY:

Hart Cemetery, Hart MI

MORGUE:

Sheldon

IDENTIFIED BY:

Herman Mathias

OTHER NOTES:

Wife of Perry Moore and mother to Sibyl Moore; daughter-in-law of Benjamin Moore. Staying with sister-in-law, Mrs. Bond, at 4123 Indiana Avenue; identified by Herman Mathias, 107 Madison Street.

CITATION:

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · 1 Jan 1904, Fri · Page 2
The Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois) 02 Jan 1904, Sat, page 3
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, p 136
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122018055/mate-ellen-moore

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: Karl Sup, Iroquois Theatre Fire Historical Society

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