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 | 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...
