Many thanks to Steve for sending this article along with the following note:
"I'm sending another article about the John W. Starr estate that I found which has some more information about Ella than the others did.
The article is from page 4 of the July 16, 1883 edition of the
Washington Evening Star. A reporter asked Ella's sister where Ella/Nelly was living and the sister replied "New York". Although considering some of the sister's answers to other questions by the reporter, I don't know if that can be believed."