MOORE, Bessie

Date of birth:  13 Sep 1891 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
Date of death: 17 May 1893 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, May 19, 1893,
page 1 column 5

The young child of Adam Moore, colored, died in this city Wednesday morning. Funeral Wednesday afternoon at three o’clock. Burial in Greenlawn cemetery.

Link to Bessie Moore’s grave

Note: The Johnson County WPA Birth Index 1882-1920, referencing Book CH1, page 140, records Child Moore as female, born 13 Sep 1891 to Adam Moore and Angie [sic Angeline] King, colored. The Johnson County WPA Death Index 1882-1900, page 131, referencing Book H-17, page 19, records her as Bessie Moore, female, colored, 18 months old when she died on 17 May 1893 in Franklin.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson