[3] Moore arrived at Ellis Island from County Cork, Ireland, aboard the Guion Line steamship Nevada on January 1, 1892.

Annie married a son of German Catholic immigrants, Joseph Augustus Schayer (1876–1960), a salesman at Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market, with whom she had about eleven children.

[5] On October 11, 2008, a dedication ceremony was held at Calvary which celebrated the unveiling of a marker for her grave,[6] a Celtic Cross made of Irish Blue Limestone.

[7] 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.

[citation needed] Things named in honour of Moore include the Annie Moore Award, presented annually by the Irish American Cultural Institute,[15] a utility vessel operated for the National Park Service,[16] and a software program developed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, Lund University in Sweden, and the University of Oxford in Britain which uses a "matching algorithm" to allocate refugees with no ties to the host country to their new homes.