Ulrich Homesite
This file appears in: Belle Moore
The Louisville Courier-Journal of March 22, 1885, a history of Belle Moore, records that Belle Moore fled to 620 Indiana Avenue, where once stood the home of her mother and stepfather, Sallie and Louis Ulrich. The report does not mention the physical and sexual abuse that caused Moore’s flight, despite earlier articles detailing those events. Instead, the article portrays her as a scandalous, dangerous beauty, an archetypal fallen woman.
This file appears in: Belle Moore
Belle Moore
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…