Carmela Collura (1897 - 1935)

Born 13 Feb 1897 in Corleone, Palermo, Sicilia, Italia

Ancestors

Wife of Giuseppe Collura — married 13 Feb 1921 (to 13 Sep 1935) in Corleone, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Died 13 Sep 1935 at age 38 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Carmela Collura is baptized on 14 February 1897 in Corleone, the daughter of Vincenzo Collura and Domenica Criscione.^[1][2]

Carmela marries Giuseppe (or Joseph) Collura^[2] around 1922^[3]. Carmela and Joseph have at least one child, Antonino/Anthony (c. 1922).

Antonino is born around 1922, based on Giuseppe’s naturalization record.^[4]

In April 1923, Giuseppe returns to Chicago, where he lived 1911-1920, joining his sister there. He leaves Carmela in his native Prizzi, a comune neighboring Corleone.^[5]

Giuseppe petitions 4 December 1928 for naturalization in Chicago, IL. His minor child is Antonino, age 6, living in Italy. Nothing has been entered for his wife.^[4]

On the SS Saturnia, which sails from Naples on 28 August 1929, and arrives in New York on 7 September, three passengers from Corleone appear together:

1. Carmela Collura, 32 (b. 1897), housewife, married, born and last resided in Corleone, leaves her mother Domenica Criscione in Corleone. She is going to Chicago, joining her husband Giuseppe Collura at 7223 So. Wood St.

2. Antonino Collura, 7 (b. 1822), stamped “In Hospital” and “Discharged”, born and last resided in Corleone, travels with his mother

3. Angela Bonanno Troia, 53 (b. 1876), married, housewife, born in Chiusa, last resided in Corleone, leaves her cousin Vincenzo Troja in Corleone. She is going to Brooklyn, New York to join her son Giuseppe Bonanno at 181 Maujer St.^[6]

In the 1930 federal census of Chicago, taken 15 April, Joseph Ferraro, 46 (b. 1884), heads a household at 7223 South Wood. He owns his home, worth $6,500. He married when he was 26 (c. 1910) and his wife Jennie, 41 (b. 1889), was twenty. At home are their children Hank, 18 (b. 1912), Virginia, 15 (b. 1915), Anthony, 13 (b. 1917), Santina, 11 (b. 1919), Josephine, 8 (b. 1922), Charles, 6 (b. 1924), Mary, 5 (b. 1925), and Joseph, 1 year and 9 months (b. Jul 1928). Joseph, Jennie, and Hank were born in Italy, and immigrated in 1914. The younger children were born in Illinois. Joseph is proprietor of Express Insurance? (second word not clear: according to the code, this is a taxi company, Joseph is the owner and Hank is a laborer). The word “Express” is clear in Hank’s occupational industry, where he is employed as a helper.

Also living with Joseph are his brother in law, Joseph Collura, 43 (b. 1887), who married for the first time when he was 35 (c. 1922) and his wife, Carmela, 33 (b. 1897), Joseph’s sister in law, was 25. Their child Anthony, 7 (b. 1922), also lives with them. All three were born in Italy; Joseph immigrated in 1903 and his wife and son in 1929. Joseph is a welder for Harvester Co.^[3]

Death of Carmela

Carmela dies on 13 September 1935 in Chicago. She is 38 years old. The record of her death names her parents and her husband. Her address is listed as "7225 S Wood St, Chicago".^[2]

Carmela is buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Chicago on 17 September.^[2][7][8]

In 1936, Joseph remarries. He dies in 1959.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Baptism of Carmela Collura, 14 February 1897, Index. "Italia, Palermo, Diocesi di Monreale, Registri Parrocchiali, 1531-1998," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6L2S-TF3?cc=2046915&wc=MG34-ZN5%3A351041801%2C351041802%2C351319001 : 20 May 2014), Corleone > San Martino > Indice (Battesimi) 1881-1904 > image 53 of 153; Archivio di Arcidiocesi di Palermo (Palermo ArchDiocese Archives, Palermo).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQR4-X5C : 9 March 2018), Joseph Collura in entry for Carmela Collura, 13 Sep 1935; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,926,670.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9R4J-QV6?cc=1810731&wc=QZFS-SLM%3A648807601%2C648807602%2C649991401%2C1589285022 : 8 December 2015), Illinois > Cook > Chicago (Districts 0501-0750) > ED 687 > image 40 of 58; citing NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002).
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Illinois, Northern District (Eastern Division), Naturalization Index, 1926-1979," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Q6-CP58?cc=2040533&wc=MXB1-HTL%3A1005517501 : 20 May 2014), Coll, Benjamin-Conmy, William > image 420 of 1209; National Archives and Records Administration, Great Lakes Region, Chicago.
5. ↑ "New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C953-39BC-1?cc=1368704&wc=4FMB-71K%3A1600352352 : 26 January 2018), Roll 3294, vol 7532-7534, 7 May 1923-11 May 1923 > image 372 of 1173; citing NARA microfilm publication T715 and M237 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ Ship manifest retrieved 16 March 2019.
7. ↑ "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2M6-HNPH : 18 March 2018), Carmela Collura, 13 Sep 1935; citing Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, source reference , record number , Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm .
8. ↑ "Illinois, Archdiocese of Chicago, Cemetery Records, 1864-1989," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2HJ-ZRX9 : 11 March 2018), Carmela Collura, 17 Sep 1935; citing Evergreen Park, Cook, Illinois, United States, Evergreen Park, Cook, Illinois, United States,St. Mary, Archdiocese of Chicago, Illinois; FHL microfilm 1,643,525.
9. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 16 March 2019), memorial page for Giuseppe Collura (1886–1959), Find A Grave Memorial no. 86886102, citing Saint Mary Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum, Evergreen Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by Natalie Norton Horvath (contributor 47338264) .