by Jerry Carbone | Apr 30, 2021 | Family, News
My mother, Josephine (Spero) Carbone, was born on 29 April 1922 in Denver, Colorado. She grew up at a home in North Denver, an area where new Italian immigrants collected, on Pecos Street. Her mother, Antonia/Antonetta (Pizzichillo) Spero, was from Potenza,...
by Jerry Carbone | May 6, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News
First, a brief recap of the events. On the evening of April 14 ,1907, in the coal camp of Carneyville, Wyoming, near the bustling western city of Sheridan, tensions were running high after a bet on a dog fight between two groups of miners. A fight broke out that...
by Jerry Carbone | Apr 11, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News
My previous posts discussed the fight that erupted between Italian and American miners in the Carneyville coal-camp seven miles from the town of Sheridan, Wyoming. There was one man killed, James Hughey; Charles Fuller was severely injured; and Dan Reynolds was...
by Jerry Carbone | Apr 6, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News, Yellow journalism
As we have seen in the previous post, four Italians were arrested and charged in the knife-affray of the evening of 14 April 1907 in the coal-camp of Carneyville, Wyoming. They were my great uncles, BrunoAntonio Carbone and Domenico Carbone; plus two other Italian...
by Jerry Carbone | Apr 3, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News
The term “dago” is a corruption of Diego, a Spanish equivalent of James. It has been applied as a generic proper name to Spaniards. A name originally given in the south-western section of the United States to a man of Spanish parentage; now extended to...
by Jerry Carbone | Mar 31, 2020 | Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, News
This coming May will be the 125th anniversary of the first ancestor of my family to immigrate to the United States. Domenico Carbone (1878-1967), middle in the photo, was the first born son of Rocco Carbone (1837-1942) and Maria Perri (1856-1916) of Cirella, Reggio...
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