Vincenza (Marino) Oliveri (1898 - 1999)

Born 3 Aug 1898 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Salvatore Oliveri — married 28 Sep 1919 (to 4 Nov 1969) in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

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Biography

According to the record of her death, Vincenza Marino, called Jennie, is born 8 August 1898 in Chicago, the daughter of John and Anna Marie Marino.^[1] Vincenza Marino is born 3 August 1898 and baptized on 6 August 1898 in Chicago, Illinois. She is the daughter of Giovanni Marino and Anna Maria Vernagallo.^[2]

Jennie marries Salvatore Oliveri on 28 September 1919 in Chicago.^[1][3][4] They have four children: Salvatore/Sam Jr. (1921), Paula (1923), John, and Philip.

In the 1920 federal census of Chicago, taken 12 January:

John Olivera, 31 (b. 1889) (second cousin of Sam), heads a household with his wife, Stella, 24 (b. 1895), at 1363 Cleveland Ave. Both were born in Italy. John immigrated in 1910 and his wife in 1913. John is a laborer in a factory.

The next family in the census is at 1361 Cleveland Ave, headed by Sam Olivera, age 25 (b. 1894), who lives with his wife, Jennie, 25 (b. 1894), and mother-in-law Marie Marino, 46 (b. 1873). All were born in Italy and immigrated in 1912. Sam is a laborer in a candy factory. Jennie is a machine operator in a factory. Her mother is a finisher in a tailor shop.^[5]

On 1 Jan 1921, Salvatore, son of Salvatore Oliveri, 26 (b. 1895), and Vincenzina Marino, 21 (b. 1900), is born in Chicago.^[6]

Paula is born 21 January 1923 in Chicago. Her obituary names her three brothers, who all predecease her.^[7]

Salvatore, known as Sam, is one of two Chicago representatives at the December 1928 Cleveland Conference, a meeting of Mafia bootleggers, of whom twenty are arrested.^[8][9]

In the 1930 census of Chicago, Jennie's mother lives with Stella, who is a widow.

Sam and Jennie Oliveri, living at 735 Sanford, appear in the 1937 city directory for Rockford, IL.^[10]

Salvatore Oliveri of 735 Sanford, Rockford, Winnebago, IL, registers for the draft for WWII on 26 April 1942. He is 47, born 17 January 1895 in Italy. His contact person is his nephew, Sam Oliveri, at 1332 Sanford St., Rockford. He is employed by Gasparini-Oliveri Funeral Service at 834 Sanford St. Salvatore is 5’10” and 184# with brown eyes, gray hair, and a dark complexion.^[11]

Sam dies 4 November 1969 in Winnebago County.^[1][12]

Jennie's obituary names their children and children-in-law. Philip marries Joyce. Paula marries Vincent Fuca. Sam Jr. marries Vicki. Sam Jr. predeceases his mother.^[1]

Death of Jennie

Jennie dies at home in Rockford at age 100 on 26 July 1999.^[1][13]

Paula, who dies in 2012, lives most of her life in Rockford, Illinois. Her surname at death is "Fuca." She dies at age 88 after a long illness.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Vincenza “Jennie” Oliveri, 100. (1999, Aug 1). Rockford Register Star (IL), p. 5C.. Retrieved from https://infoweb.newsbank.com/resources/doc/nb/obit/1008E1D699323618-1008E1D699323618?p=OBIT
2. ↑ "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:H9J1-9K6Z : 13 February 2020), Vincentiam Marino, 1898.
3. ↑ Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois Marriage Indexes, 1912-1942 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
4. ↑ FHL Film No. 1030702. Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRX9-9WG?cc=1488411&wc=QZJ5-8T7%3A1036473701%2C1037511801%2C1039064201%2C1589341088 : 10 September 2019), Illinois > Cook (Chicago) > Chicago Ward 22 > ED 1222 > image 20 of 26; citing NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
6. ↑ "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1940," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N7QH-W7S : 18 May 2016), Salvatore Oliveri in entry for Salvatore Oliveri, 01 Jan 1921; Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, reference/certificate 5408, Cook County Clerk, Cook County Courthouse, Chicago; FHL microfilm 1,309,490.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Paula Fuca, 88 (Rockford). (2012, March 20). Rockford Register Star (IL). Available from NewsBank: https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=news/13DA5E76A4149A50.
8. ↑ Hunt, T. (2016, December 5). Caught in Cleveland. Retrieved 7 March 2019 from http://www.writersofwrongs.com/2016/12/caught-in-cleveland.html
9. ↑ Critchley, D. (2009). The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia, 1891-1931. New York: Routledge. Pp. 17, 203.
10. ↑ Rockford, Illinois, City Directory, 1937. Ancestry.com. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
11. ↑ The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration), for The State of Illinois; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147; Series Number: M2097
12. ↑ Ancestry.com. Winnebago County, Illinois, Deaths, 1844-1992 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.
13. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014.