Eleanor Moss

Birth Date
On 1847 May 12 (Born)
Death Date
On 1914 January 10 (Died)
Gender
Female

PEF records indicate that Elenor was traveling with a Thomas, Ann, and Moss. Mary Ann and Thomas were her siblings.  She is documented in the Seventeenth Ward on 5 November 1863, at which time her birth date was recorded.

The inscription on her gravestone shows her name as "Elenor Moss Farnes," and it confirms the years of her birth and death. Census and other sources show her given name as "Eleanor."

Her parents and some of her younger siblings came the following year with the 1864 William Hyde Company.

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