Moore, Martha Elizabeth

Student file of Martha Elizabeth Moore, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881 and departed on January 29, 1884. The file contains student information cards, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating Moore was a housewife living in Haskell, Oklahoma in 1911.

In school documentation…

Student information card of Martha Elizabeth (Here Martha E.) Moore, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881 and departed on January 29, 1884.

The first page opened with an article titled "Hell Gate!” that described the explosive removal of the giant rocks from the river that connected Manhattan Island to Long Island Sound in New York. Page two featured small national headlines, local school news items, an article about “Money,” and a report of the “Sunday Morning Inspection.”

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Portrait of fifteen female students with a female teacher posed in front of and on the bandstand on the school grounds. The caption on the album page identifies them as Creek students who arrived in January 1881. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society and has identified them as: front row, left to right, Elizabeth McIntosh, Rosa…

Studio portait of Martha Moore and Ella Moore with their father, John R. Moore.

Studio portrait of Martha Moore and Ella Moore with their father, John R. Moore.

These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 25 children transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Tullahassee Mission in Muscogee Indian Territory.