Name: Ellen Moss

Home: Camdenton, Missouri

What country did you emigrate from? Germany

When did you emigrate to the U.S.? 1884

How did you arrive in the U.S.? by ship to Ellis Island

Why did you immigrate to the U.S.? It was my Grandfather Charles Moss and he was born on ship and his Mother died and was buried at sea. His dad's name was Joseph? and his Mother's name was Mary? [he believed] his father left this new born baby in a Roman Catholic Orphanage and took Charles' brother Fred and moved on but little Charles Moss remembered him coming to visit him and Fred was with him when Charles was about 4. Then the orphanage burned and all records were lost. Charles Moss at the age of 5 was then put on one of the Orphan trains and was finally chosen by a wonderful family by the name of Gage in Stanberry, Missouri.

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