Rose Hill
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Pictured: Rose Hill School students in a clipping from Jeffersonville's Evening News, August 27, 1875. At Rose Hill, Belle Moore worked as a janitor for a short time after her parents threw her out for wearing men's clothing and keeping the neighborhood awake all night with her singing. This was around 1884, when Moore was about 14 years old.
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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…