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Linda, I can't thank you enough. I'm glad you told me to check my messages here. Genforum failed to notify me.
It looks like Carrie was the only one to leave the area.
Here is the rest of the Blackmer story:
Carrie Virginia Blackmer was born 28 Nov. 1858. She married in CT. 4 March 1883, George Washington Moore. He was born in Westmoreland Co., PA but lived in Clinton DeWitt Co., IL at the time they married. (The family has wondered how they even met.)
Source: National Archives, testimony that marriage ceremony performed by George Paul Torrance, St. Thomas Parish Church.
George had been recently widowered from his second wife and had a baby to rear. The 5 children from his first marriage were married and gone from the area. Carrie moved to Illinois with George and she had 1 child with George.
Robinson D. Moore, born 14 March 1884. He died 4 April 1920. His mother died 4 Jan. 1928.
Carrie lived a miserly life, hoarding everything, even uncashed checks and cash and insurance policies that the mice were destroying. She drove her widowed stepchild and stepgrandchild away when her husband died. Carrie owned several properties, but worked as a laborer until the day she died. She was walking along the tracks picking up dropped coal and didn't hear the train. She stepped into its path.
The inquest cleared the train company of wrongdoing.
A grandson who knew nothing about her settled her property.
George Washington Moore's civil war pension records gave me her information.
Not a pleasant ending for Carrie. I hope those who stayed in New England fared better.
Thanks again, Linda.
Shirley Maynard
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