3 March 1879 – 6 February 1947 Philomena and her first husband Vito were both born in Italy. On the 1920 census – the first one I can find for them – Vito lists his immigration year as 1899, but there isn’t a year listed for Philomena. From their ages, I presume they married in […]
John and Julie (Houle) Benoit John (1847 – 1903) and Julie (1845 – 1903) were both born in Quebec and came to the US as young people. There are some conflicting census records, but it appears Julie’s family emigrated when she was a toddler and several of her younger siblings were born in Illinois. John […]
Marie Serritello (Mary Serritella) 4 Dec 1908 – 9 May 1917 This one is confusing because the name is spelled differently on the death record and that led to someone appending pictures of this headstone to the @findagrave record of a similarly-named young woman who died in her 20s. 8-year-old Marie’s record is under the spelling […]
Three generations are interred in this mausoleum, following the maternal line. There is space for two more but the top two niches are currently uninscribed, and with the most recent interment dating only to 2014, if another generation is destined to join their ancestors, it may be many, many years before they do. The oldest […]
1882 – 16 July 1909 Ordained 13 June 1908 James was a young man born to Irish immigrant parents who had just begun his life in holy service. I found clippings for two weddings that James performed, one for his cousin, but just one year and one month after his ordination, James died at his […]
1 January 1910 – 25 April 1930 This beautiful memorial follows the naturalistic tree stump style but with some unique flourishes. The bench is adorned with acorns, the symbolism nearly shouting about youth and promise of the young woman whose headstone this is, and Philomena’s story is especially tragic. The oldest of five surviving children […]
Robert H. Piratzky 27 May 1835 (Prussia) – 19 September 1912 Agnes Frinier Piratzky 29 June 1841 (Quebec) – 19 February 1925 Mary Ann Frinier Bouchard 5 July 1836 (Quebec) – 4 March 1913 Robert Piratzky was a successful photographer, lithographer, and engraver who immigrated from Prussia in July 1857. He met Agnes Frinier sometime […]
Edwin J Stubbs 22 April 1867* – 9 April 1934 (at University Hospital in Augusta, Georgia) (The Honorable E.J. Stubbs, Knight of St. Gregory) Alma Piratsky Stubbs 11 January 1876* – 20 January 1959 (date of internment; could not find an exact date of death) The youngest surviving child of a British-born father Robert J. […]
11 September 1870 – 2 June 1928 The story of John Lavezzorio was fairly easy to discover as his death was written up in the Chicago Tribune, and unfortunately it is a tragic one. Lavezzorio was born in Genoa, Italy, to a family of laborers but was brought to Chicago by his father at the […]
Mary Gentile 8 December 1863 – 30 June 1951 Michele Gentile 4 December 1865 – 4 February 1930 I was not able to find out much about this couple as they don’t show up in the census or any other public records that I can be certain are referring to them until the 1930 census. […]