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Anna 'Annie' Moore (April 24, 1874 – December 6, 1924) was an Irish immigrant who was the first immigrant to the U. S. to pass through federal immigrant inspection at the Ellis Island station in New York Harbor. Moore arrived from County Cork, Ireland aboard the steamship called the Nevada on January 1, 1892. Her brothers, Anthony and Philip, who journeyed with her, had just turned 15 and 12, respectively. As the first person to be processed at the newly opened facility, she was presented with an American $10 gold piece from an American Official. Moore's parents, Matthew and Julia, had come to the United States in 1888 and were living at 32 Monroe Street in Manhattan. Annie married a son of German Catholic immigrants, Joseph Augustus Schayer (1876-1960), a salesman at Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market, with whom she had at least eleven children. She died of heart failure on December 6, 1924,[1] and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens. Her previously unmarked grave was identified in August 2006. On October 11, 2008, a dedication ceremony was held at Calvary that celebrated the unveiling of a marker for her grave, a Celtic Cross made of Irish Blue Limestone. Annie Moore is honored by two statues sculpted by Jeanne Rynhart. One stands at Cobh Heritage Centre ( formerly Queens-town) her port of departure, and another at Ellis Island, her port of arrival -- aAn image meant to represent the millions who passed through Ellis Island in pursuit of the American dream.

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