Home Destroyed

ID: 2378 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Library of Congress. Image source: https://www.loc.gov/item/2018649107/. ~ Date: 1890

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In 1890, 10 years after the original orphanage closed, the Great Tornado of 1890 destroyed the building. However, as a probable early resident of the Orphans’ Home, this is the building where Belle Moore’s tragedy began.

This file appears in: Belle Moore

Belle Moore

By Jeffersonville Township Public Library

Belle Moore is an example of the incomplete, often contradictory evidence available about orphan’s lives. Born in 1867, Belle may have been surrendered sometime around 1875 by her biological mother, Sallie Crum Moore, a Jeffersonville native, due to…