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Since it looks like Cora was living with another family in 1870, I looked for the James who was 6 months old in 1860 and found an eleven year old living with another family:
1870 > NEW YORK > CHEMUNG Co.> SOUTHPORT
Series: M593 Roll: 915 Page: 395
dwelling 377, family 371
Baker, Aaron, 44, farmer value of personal estate 450, born Penn
Baker, Eliza? (not sure about this) 23, keeps house, born NY
Baker,—- (can’t make this one out at all) 3, born NY
Baker, Charlie 1, born NY
Moore, James 11, born NY
Also there’s a five-year-old Andrew Moore living in an orphanage:
1870 *>* NEW YORK *>* CHEMUNG *Co. >* 5-WD ELMIRA
Series:*M593* Roll:*914* Page:*268
(page labelled “Orphans Home”)
Moore, Andrew 5 att. school, born NY
No sign of parents William H. or Ann in 1870. Which would fit in with Cora being hard to track down…
If this will permit to post finally…
Barbara, you are AMAZING! You’re finding stuff that I couldn’t figure out.
As I say, I’m not sure that the Cora with the Boardman family is the right one, but with the brother angle, and just this gut feeling that Grandma Cora Louise might have gotten that ‘Louise’ because HER grandma fondly remembered “Louisa”…
But it’s just gut feelings is all…
But thank you so much – it gives me data to work with, to see if it is the same woman.
Yes, all this is pretty sketchy – but there are directions to look. Present Family Services of Chemung County says this on their page http://www.familyservicesofchemung.com/about_us_2.nxg
The agency was founded in 1864 by a group of church women of various denominations whose mission was the care of needy Civil War Soldiers, their wives, and their children.
Through the later half of the 1800’s and the early 1900’s the agency concentrated its efforts on children, through its large orphanage, which served the entire Southern Tier of New York. At the turn of the Century, adoption services became a greater focus of the agency.
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2/17/1868 – The name was changed to the Southern Tier Orphans’ Home.
There are 40-some children in the orphans home on that 1870 census – big place. Maybe there are records?
The Chemung Valley History Museum might be able to help:
http://www.chemungvalleymuseum.org/index.asp?pageId=6
Sure makes a story – shades of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm and Anne of Green Gables. If Cora turns out to have Blackfoot heritage too you really have a saga.
I had fun, taking a break from my own stubbornly hidden family. Let me know what you find out.
After almost six months worth of break from this, I can now say:
Ha! I found her! Still no proof, but I’ve got her birth parents names, AND who adopted her!
Cora was, in fact, taken in by Joseph and Louisa Boardman. I found this out because of a NY State Census that listed, in order, Cora Smith, Louisa Boardman, and then all of the great aunts and uncles alive at that time – names I already know like the back of my hand. There’s no reason for MY Cora to have Louisa Boardman living with her – unless she was family.
Barbara, once again I thank you, because your help got me to the point where I could find this information out.
As I said – I thank you for getting me that far. I might have reached that point, but it would be later down the line.
I know nothing of N.Y. Moore’s, sorry. I am new to this site and have a Moore ancestor that family history says was Indian. Mary Moore, born about 1790 in Pa. Her husband was George Jacob Hover, some older family members said it was Jacob George. Again some said they later went to Ohio[1830’s], others that they lived their entire lives together in central Susquehanna valley area of Pa. The info that I think is from my most accurate source says she died in Luzern co., Pa. in 1870’s. She was my gGrandfathers, gGrandmother and it’s said she died when he was very young. Good luck with your search.
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