PEARL MOFFIT
New Berlin, NY, Class of 1909
New Berlin, NY, Class of 1909
Identification on photo: PEARL MOFFIT
Photo taken: Talbot Studio, New Berlin, NY 1909
Purchased: Aug 2018 Madison-Bouckville NY Antiques Week
I am having a difficult time with this person's research. Other than the following mention in a local newspaper, I am not coming up with any other evidence of her existence.
This insert was found in the March 19, 1908 issue of The Norwich Sun newspaper. It shows the names of several students in New Berlin preparing for a scholarly contest, and mentions Pearl Moffit and Edith Pope (whose photo is also among those found in this group).
It has been brought to my attention by one of my readers that a woman named Pearl Moffit appears on the 1920 Census for Springfield MO, Ward 2. On that Census she is 28 years old (which would be correct for this person), is not employed, and is boarding at a hotel with other hotel and railroad employees. She is said to have been born in Missouri, like everyone else boarding here, and that her parents were born in New York.
This is intriguing, but I am not convinced this is the right Pearl Moffit. A search through Newspapers.com finds mention of a Moffit family living in Springfield MO in 1907. While it is entirely possible this family moved to New Berlin NY where Pearl graduated in 1909, it is not entirely likely.
I will keep working on this one.
I found a Pearl Moffit in Springfield, MO in the 1920 Census as a boarder. She is boarding with this list of people. Grace E Ray 31
ReplyDeleteJess S Davis 40
Penny Riley 33
Otto Grief 38
Marie White 28
Jesse Jefferies 21
Pearl Moffit 28
Burley Highfield 27
John Alison 30
William Wright 57
Tangles - Thank you for the information. Yes, I believe that is a possibility. The age is correct, or at least very close. I wonder if she was really born in Missouri, like everyone else boarding at that hotel, or if the census taker was mistaken. That is at least a very good starting point.
DeleteThis is the Ancestry link:
ReplyDeletehttps://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=6061&h=78338482&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=TUC2073&_phstart=successSource