<P> Anna "Annie" Moore (April 24, 1874 - December 6, 1924) was an Irish emigrant to the United States in 1892 . She was the first immigrant to the United States to pass through federal immigrant inspection at the Ellis Island station in New York Harbor . </P> <P> Moore arrived from County Cork, Ireland aboard the steamship called the Nevada on January 1, 1892 . It was reported that her arrival was on her 15th birthday, but records in Ireland reveal that her birthday was in May and she was actually 17 . Her brothers, Anthony and Philip, who journeyed with her, had just turned 15 and 12, respectively . As the first person to be processed at the newly opened facility, she was presented with an American $10 gold piece from an American Official, which is the equivalent of $267 in 2015 dollars accounting for inflation . From 1820 to 1920, more than 4 million people left their native shores of Ireland bound for the Port of New York and a new life in America . When Ellis Island officially opened on January 1, 1892, the first passenger registered through the now world - famous immigration station was a young Irish girl named Annie Moore . Annie departed from Queenstown (County Cork, Ireland) on December 20, 1891 aboard the S.S. Nevada, one of 148 steerage passengers . The trio would spend 12 days at sea (including Christmas Day), arriving in New York on Thursday evening, December 31 . They were processed through Ellis Island the following morning, New Year's Day . All three children were soon reunited with their parents who were already living in New York . </P> <P> Her parents, Matthew and Julia Moore, had come to the United States in 1888 and were living at 32 Monroe Street in Manhattan . She married a son of German Catholic immigrants, Joseph Augustus Schayer (1876 - 1960), a salesman at Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market, with whom she had at least eleven children . She died of heart failure on December 6, 1924, and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Queens . Her previously unmarked grave was identified in August 2006 . On October 11, 2008, a dedication ceremony was held at Calvary which celebrated the unveiling of a marker for her grave, a Celtic Cross made of Irish Blue Limestone . </P> <P> A woman named "Annie Moore" who died near Fort Worth, Texas in 1924 had long been thought to be the one whose arrival marked the beginning of Ellis Island . Further research, however, established that the Annie Moore in Texas was born in Illinois . </P>

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