by Jerry Carbone | Jan 27, 2025 | Coal miners, Immigrants, Italian Genealogy, Opera
This past January 19 was the 111th birthday of my father’s 1st cousin, Mary C. Carbone, also known as Marie Montain. She was born in the Wyoming mining coal-camp of Carneyville, Wyoming on 19 January 1914 to the parents, Rosa (Montegna) Carbone and Francisco...
by Jerry Carbone | Jan 27, 2025 | Family, Immigrants, Italian Genealogy
What happens when organizing shelves in your office and rediscover Italian-immigrant-mother-in-law’s scrapbook with five lire fascist era banknote in small while envelope saved as memento when she left Italy in 1946 as war bride. Front of banknote is Savoy King...
by Jerry Carbone | Jul 10, 2023 | News
In August of 1920 women received the right to vote through the passage of the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution and could vote in the presidential election in November 1920. There were 144 women of color living in Vermont who were eligible. In Windham...
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...
