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THE VANCHIERI'S LEFT VILLAROSA,SICILY TO GO UP TO SAN NICOLA DELL'ALTO IN THE LATE 1800'S. SALVATORE WAS THE FATHER,GRAZIA WAS THE MOTHER.CARMELA WAS THEE OLDEST OF THEIR FIVE CHILDREN,SHE WAS ALSO THEE ONLY GIRL.ANGELO CAME NEXT,HE WAS NAMED AFTER HIS GRANDFATHER(SALVATORE'S FATHER) WHICH IS AN ITALIAN CUSTOM.THEN CAME MY GREAT GRAND FATHER,PIETRO,THEN CAME MICHELLE AND FINALLY,SALVATORE. CARMELA MARRIED ANGELO CAMMARATA,THEIR FIRST CHILD EPIFANIA CAMMARATA,WAS THE REASON FOR ALL OF THIS CLAN'S JOURNEY TO AMERICA. AT THEE EARLY AGE OF ONLY FOURTEEN SHE LEFT ITALY ABOARD THE SICILIAN PRINCE,WHICH DEPARTED FROM PALERMO ON OR ABOUT DECEMBER 12TH,1906 AND ARRIVING AT ELLIS ISLAND N.Y. ON DEC.22ND,1906.THEN AS QUICK AS SHE ARRIVED TO HER DESTINATION IN JOHNSTOWN,PENNA. GOT MARRIED TO GUISEPPE(JOSEPH)SCAVUZZO WHOSE FAMILY ALSO REINED FROM THE VILLAROSA,CALTINASETTA REGION. HE WAS 25 YEARS OLD AND HAD BEEN LIVING AND WORKING IN THE U.S. SINCE 1903.NOT LONG AFTER,IN EARLY 1907,EPIFANIA'S FATHER ANGELO CAMMARATA ARRIVED,THEY HAD ADDRESSES ON RAILROAD ST,HUBES ST,AND FRANKLIN ST. THEN IN 1908 MY GREAT GRAND FATHER PIETRO ARRIVED HE WENT BACK TO SAN NICOLA DELL'ALTO IN EARLY 1910.HE ARRIVED BACK IN THE U.S. IN EARLY 1912 BRINGING ALONG HIS YOUNGEST BROTHER SALVATORE.THEN IN 1913,THE REST OF THE CLAN CAME OVER. THAT INCLUDED ANGELO CAMMARATA'S WIFE CARMELA VANCHIERI AND HER THEIR CHILDREN IMMACULATA 14,MA.GRAZIA 11 AND GUISEPPE 8. ALSO CAME MARIA SCAGLIONE,MY GREAT GRAND MOTHER(PIETRO'S WIFE),AND THEIR CHILDREN SALVATORE 4 AND GRAZIA 2. SHORTLY AFTER,IN THAT SAME YEAR. THEE OTHER BROTHERS ANGELO AND MICHELLE ARRIVED.IN OR AROUND 1915 THE BROTHERS PIETRO,MICHELLE & SALVATORE RELOCATED TO THE WIKES-BARRE,LUZERNE CO. AREA TO RAISE THEIR FAMILIES AND HERE IT IS ALMOST A HUNDRED YEAR,S LATER,AND QUESS WHERE I AM WRITING THIS DOCUMENT FROM ? WISHING I COULD BE IN ITALY....
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