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Date of Birth: 23 August 1885

Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Christening: 13 September 1885

Place of Christening: St. Peter the Apostle, Baltimore, Maryland

Godparents: Jacob Hillary

                   Catherine Kane 

Parents: Michael J. Dorsey

             Bessie Kane

Spouse: Hilliard H. McCoy

Date of Death:2 September 1923

Place of Death: Baltimore, Maryland

Date of Interment: 5 September 1923

Place of Interment: New Catheral Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland

Biography: Elsa Dorsey was the daughter of Michael and Bessie (Kane) Dorsey and was born in August of 1885. She met and married Hilliard McCoy, do not know much more about her husband except that he was metioned in her obituary. Elsa died in 1923 of tuburculosis of the lungs, at the young age 38 years of age at the time she was living with her mother at 114 Oread Ave. She was buried in New Catheral Cemetery in Baltimore City. As far as we know she had no children. Her obituary read as follows: McCoy: -----On September 2, 1923, Elsie McCoy (nee Dorsey) the beloved wife of Hilliard H. McCoy.             Funeral from her mother's residence, Mrs. Bessie C. Dorsey, 114 Oread Ave., Pimlico, on Wednesday at 8:30 A.M. Requiem Mass at St Ambrose Church at 9:00 A.M. interment in New Catheral Cemetery. 
 

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