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Mon 10 Oct 2008Ellis Island's first immigrant honoured
FOR 84 years, the body of Annie Moore lay in in an unmarked grave in the New York borough of Queens.
On Saturday, that indignity came to an end when a monument was erected at Calvary Cemetery commemorating the first person - Irish or otherwise - to be registered at New York's Ellis Island immigration centre.
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