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CERINI Family History, Part X

Giuseppina M. (BELLON) ABBOTT^Δ (1891-)

173233E11. Giuseppina "Josephine" M. Bellon^Δ was born on December 2, 1891, in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, the first of the Cerini family to be born in America. She was recorded as Giuseppina Belloni in the 1900 census and thereafter was recorded as Josephine Bellon. Josephine married Stephen C. Abbott (originally Abbotte) around 1907 or 1908.^{[Cen 1910]} Stephen immigrated from Italy in 1889 or 1890 at around the age of 5. Josephine and Stephen had at least eight children^{[Cen 1930]}:

173233E111.	Casper S. Abbott	31 Jan 1910	(> 1968)	(> 58)
173233E112.	Grace Marie Abbott	8 Mar 1916	17 Apr 2002	(86)
173233E113.	Lester A. Abbott	3 Apr 1917	1 Apr 1945	(27)
173233E114.	Adeline L. Abbott	(13 Jan 1921)	5 Nov 2014	(93 )
173233E115.	Stella S./M. Concepta Abbott	10 Aug 1922	18 Aug 2015	(93)
173233E116.	Stephen S. Abbott	26 Jan 1925	29 Jul 1968	(43)
173233E117.	Gloria Grace AbbottΔ	20 Jan 1927	11 Jun 2011	(84)
173233E118 .	Mabel S. Abbott	(Oct) 1929	(> 2015)	(> 85)

Stephen's family settled at at 1019 East Locust Street in Scranton by 1900.^{[Cen 1900B]} His father worked as a stonemason.^{[Cen 1900-1920]} After Josephine and Stephen married, they settled next door at 1016 East Locust Street and rented together with the Anton & Louise Gress family, also Italian immigrants.^{[Cen 1910]}

Stephen's sister Nellie (Abbott) Cernuto and her family moved in with them by 1920 and Stephen was recorded to be a clerk at a carpet store.^{[Cen 1920]} Stephen became a department store salesman by 1930.^{[Cen 1930]}

The family continued at 1016 East Locust Street, but interestingly Stephen's widowed mother Grazia Abbott was named as the head of household in 1940. Stephen worked in construction while daughter Grace and son Lester worked at a pants factory.^{[Cen 1940]}

Son Lester enlisted in the U.S. Army on August 28, 1940, at Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia, where he was assigned to the Philippine Department.^[WWII] He was later assigned to the 100th Infantry Division ("Century Division"), 397th Infantry Regiment, which stood up in 1942 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. The division deployed to the Meurthe-et-Moselle region in northeastern France, engaged in combat at Saint-Remy in the Vosges Mountains in November 1944, and took over for the 45th Infantry Division at Baccarat. The 100th pushed northeast to Bitche, near the German border, in December. In March 1945, the Division pushed across the Rhine River into Germany where PFC Abbott was killed in action on April 1, 1945. PFC Abbott was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart and buried at Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial, Saint-Avold, Moselle, Lorraine, France.^[Grave]

By 1950, Stephen and Josephine and Stephen's mother (still named as the head of household) were living on the upper floor of 1016 East Locust Street, along with son Stephen and daughter, Mrs. Adeline (Abbott) DeSanto; and daughter, Mrs. Grace (Abbott) Cali and her family were living on the first floor. Son Stephen worked as a storekeeper at a grocery and candy store, daughter Adeline worked as a salesgirl at a dry goods company, and son-in-law Anthony Cali worked as a spot welder at the spring manufacturing company.^{[Cen 1950]}

Walter Michael BELLON (1893-1969)

173233E12. Walter Michael Bellon was born on May 5, 1893, in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.^{[Draft 1917]} He was first recorded as "Mose Belloni"^{[Cen 1900]} but later records give his full name as Walter Michael Bellon. Walter moved to Analy township, Sonoma County, California, where he lived with his maternal aunt Annonziata (Cerini Pomi) Marci.^{[Draft 1917]} He served in the U.S. Army during World War I and upon his return he married his first cousin, Annonziata's daughter, Mabel Dorothy Pomi, on August 23, 1919.^{[Mar 1919]} They divorced in the 1930s and Walter remarried to Marguerite Amanda (Rinn) Van Auken, who had a daugher from a prior marriage. They had one daughter together:

--	Corrine Van Auken	--	--	--
173233E121.	Suzanne Bellon	--	--	--

Walter moved to Hessel Precinct in Analy township (southeast of Sebastopol along Gravenstein Highway) in Sonoma County, California, by 1917, where he farmed for his maternal aunt Annonziata (Cerini Pomi) Marci.^{[Draft 1917]} Walter was of medium height, slender build, and had dark blue eyes and black hair.^{[Draft 1917]}

Walter enlisted in the U.S. Army on September 20, 1917, and was assigned to Company C of the 145th Machine Gun Battalion. He was discharged as a corporal on May 23, 1919, having earned a Bronze Victory Button.^{[Vet, Grave]}

Three months after his military discharge, Walter married his Aunt Annonziata's daughter, Mabel Dorothy Pomi, his first cousin, on August 23, 1919, at Saint Rose Catholic Church at B Street and 10th Street in Santa Rosa. They were wed by Rev. John M. Cassin.^{[Mar 1919]} Walter and Mabel lived with Annonziata through her death in 1929, and continued to live with Mabel's stepfather through 1930.^{[Cen 1920,1930]}

Walter and Mabel divorced sometime between 1930 and 1935, by which time Walter had moved to San Francisco and resided at the Sunny Hotel at 26 Chatham Place. There he worked as an operator at a paper board factory.^{[Cen 1940A]} Within months, Walter moved a mile west to 1958 Sacramento Street where his point of contact was Mrs. Genevieve. Wilmarth, a boarding house manager at that address.^{Vote 1940, Draft 1942} He worked near the bay at 113 Townsend Street. Walter's World War II draft registration described him as 5' 5" tall, 140 pounds, with blue eyes, brown and gray hair, a ruddy complexion, and a scar on his upper lip.^{[Draft 1942]}

Walter remarried to Marguerite (Rinn) Van Auken in the 1940s. She had worked as a nurse at the San Francisco Nusery for Homeless Children at 1350 Lake Street in San Francisco.^{[Cen 1940B]} The blended family moved to 455 40th Avenue in San Francisco by 1950 where Walter was a foreman at a paper box factory.^{[Cen 1950]} They later moved to 13 North Sunset Drive in Lodi where Walter worked as a saleman^{[City 1956]} and as an agent for his father-in-law's real estate agency, the L. H. Rinn Agency.^{[City 1962]} (Walter's father-in-law, Louis Henry Rinn (1876-1961) died the previous year.)

Walter M. Bellon died in on May 7, 1969, in Alameda County, California, just two days after his 76th birthday. He had been residing in Lodi at the time of his death and was buried at Lodi Memorial Park and Cemetery.^[Grave]

Marguerite later remarried to Ernest Max Folendorf, a widower and veteran of World War I, on May 11, 1980, in Reno, Washoe County, Nevada. Ernest died on May 2, 1986, in Lodi and was also buried at Lodi Memorial Park and Cemetery.^[Grave]

Marguerite Amanda (Rinn Van Auken Bellon) Folendorf died a year later on September 8, 1987, in Inyo County, California. She too was buried in Lodi Memorial Park and Cemetery.^[Grave]

Cornelius Ted BELLON^Δ (1894-1973)

1173233E13. Cornelius Ted Bellon^Δ was born on November 14, 1894, Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. He married Johanna Eley, a native of South Wales, reportedly on March 24, 1917, in Scranton. He enlisted with the Army during World War I, leaving his bride pregnant with their first child. They went on to have as many as ten children, likely all born in Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania:

1173233E13A.	Celester BellonΔ	28 May 1918	15 Nov 1987	(69)
1173233E13B.	Alford Bellon	Jan 1920	5 Sep 1920	(7 mos.)
1173233E13C.	Blanche Bellon	22 Jan 1921	3 Aug 1921	(6 mos.)
1173233E13D.	Adeline Bellon	19 Dec 1921	2 Jul 1996	(74)
1173233E13E.	Blodwyn "Brenda" Bellon	19 Dec 1921	May 1980	(57)
1173233E13F.	Walter Bellon	25 Oct 1922	8 Aug 1923	(9 mos.)
1173233E13G.	William F. Bellon	27 Nov 1923	23 Aug 1992	(68)
1173233E13H.	Cornelius Bellon	7 Jul 1925	29 Oct 1925	(3 mos.)
1173233E13I.	Catherine Bellon	--	--	--
1173233E13J.	Julia Bellon	--	--	--

Cornelius and Johanna lived at the rear of 1413 North Sumner Avenue in Scranton when World War I broke out and Cornelius registered for the draft in June 1917^{[Draft 1917]} through when he enlisted.^{[Pen 1934]} At the time he worked as a plumber for W. F. Malburg and was described as being of medium height and build with dark hair and brown eyes.^{[Draft 1917]}

Cornelius enlisted in Army at the age of 23 on December 15, 1917, in Scranton. He first served with the 307th Field Artillery, presumably at Camp Dix (now Fort Dix), New Jersey, under the 78th Infantry Division. Cornelius was reassigned to the 8th Company, [3rd] Regiment A.S.M.M. (as yet unidentified) in mid-March 1918, prior to the Division's deployment to France in May. He then transferred to the 13th Company, [3rd] Regiment M.M. (as yet unidentified) on June 1 and served there through mid-September. His burial record also named the 12th Company, 3rd Regiment as his unit.^{[Burial 1973]} Cornelius reportedly served overseas from 1918 to 1919 and was promoted to corporal on November 2, 1918, and to sergeant in February 1919. Sergeant Bellon was honarably discharged on April 26, 1919, at Camp Mitchel Field (now Mitchel Air Force Base) on Long Island, New York. He applied for a pension in February 1934 that compensated him $160--$10 for 16 months of service.^{[Pen 1934]}

Johanna's family (widowed mother Julia, elder brother Evan, divorced elder sister Blodwin, and nieces Olive and Lillian) lived with the Bellons at the rear of 1413 North Sumner Avenue in Scranton in 1920. Cornelius worked as a laborer at a warehouse.^{[Cen 1920]}

Cornelius and Johanna lost four infants in the early 1920s. All were buried at Forest Hill Cemetery in nearby Dunmore, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.^[Grave]

By 1930, the Bellons had moved about eight blocks north to 1835 Block Street where Cornelius worked as a plumber for a plumbing company.^{[Cen 1930]} They moved to a couple blocks north to 1834 Keyser Avenue by 1934^{[Pen 1934]} and then moved back south by 1935 to 504 Marion Street where Johanna's mother, Julia Eley, and brother Evan Eley, moved back in with them. Cornelius continued to work as a plumber, son Celester worked as a truck driver for a coal company, Evan worked as a laborer at a coal mine, and Johanna and daughter Blodwyn both worked as servants in private homes.^{[Cen 1940]}

Cornelius registered for the draft in April 1942 and stated he worked for J.J. Hessling in Carbondale, 13 miles north of Scranton. Four months later, 18-year-old son William enlisted in the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps at Wilkes Barre on September 16, 1942.

Cornelius Ted Bellon died on January 23, 1973 in Scranton and was interred at Forest Hill Cemetery.^{[Burial 1973]} He was 78 years old.

Lodovico R. POMI (1887-1912)

1173233E31. Lodovico "Louis" R. Pomi was the first-born son of Annonziatta Cerini and Frank Pomi. He was born on 16 Jun 1887 in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland, and baptized there the following day as Lodovius Baptista Antonius. Raphael and Rosalia Cerini were named as his godparents.^{[Bap 1887]} Louie immigrated with his mother in 1890. He married Corina Beatrice Soldati, also the daughter of Italian-Swiss immigrants, and had two sons. After Louis' death Corina remarried to her widower brother-in-law, Romildo Louis Mazza, who had three children:

1173233E311.	Francis Louis Pomi	16 Oct 1910	13 Feb 1986	(75)
1173233E312.	Ralph Alexander "Allie" Pomi	29 Dec 1911	12 Dec 1985	(73)
--	Francis (A.) Mazza	(21 Jul 1907)	(4 Mar 1976)	(68)
--	Louise G. Mazza	30 Sep 1911	20 Nov 1967	(56)
--	Marie L. Mazza	14 Dec 1915	21 Oct 1990	(74)

Louis emigrated with his mother at the age of two by way of Le Havre, France, arriving in New York aboard the La Bretagne on September 29, 1890, and bound for San Francisco.^{[Pass 1890]}

During the 1910 census, the Pomis were living at 101 Upham Street in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. They had only been married for seven months at the time and Corina was likely pregnant with Francis. Louie was working in a grocery store at the time.^{[Cen 1910]} The Pomis thereafter moved to north to Penngrove where Louis raised poultry.

Two years later, Lodovico "Louis" Pomi died of typhoid fever on the evening of Friday, October 4, 1912, at the age of 25 years. Louis was initially buried with his father at Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Santa Rosa but later removed to Sebastopol. Following the death and burial of youngest brother Candin Albert in 1916, he was again removed, along with his father, and reinterred with his brother at the Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Petaluma on May 18, 1916.

During the 1920 census, Corina was enumerated living with her remarried mother, Louise (Bianchini Soldati) Bolla, in Petaluma, along with her young boys.^{[Cen 1920]}

Between 1922 and 1930, Corina remarried to Romildo Louis Mazza, a dairyman born to Italian-Swiss immigrants, who had previously been married to her younger sister, Jennie I. (Soldati) Mazza (1888-1922). She moved in at the Mazza residence up San Antonio Road and along Red Hill Road, just across the county line from Petaluma in northern Marin County.^{[Cen 1930]}

Romilda Louis Mazza died the night of October 15, 1934, at his home in San Antonio, Marin County. He was buried at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Petaluma along with his first wife, Jennie. He was 58 years old.

Corina Beatrice (Soldati Pomi) Mazza died 47 years later on March 29, 1982, in Sonoma County, a week short of her 95th birthday. She had been living in Petaluma at the time.

Henry Joseph POMI^Δ (1892-1985)

1173233E32. Henry Joseph Pomi^Δ was born in Sonoma County, California, on either October 31 or November 1, 1892. He appears to have been the first of the Cerini family to be born in California. (His maternal cousin Walter Bellon was the first of the Cerini family to be born in America). He married Therese Sophie Andresen, an immigrant from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, of Danish lineage, on March 29, 1914, in Petaluma, Sonoma County, and had three children:

1173233E321.	Albert Henry Pomi	20 Jan 1915	10 Feb 1987	(72)
1173233E322.	Annabelle Sophie PomiΔ	20 Aug 1917	18 Jun 2015	(97)
1173233E323.	Mabel Corina Pomi	10 Jan 1919	24 Apr 2008	(89)

The Pomi family started in Analy Township, Sonoma County, where Henry farmed.^{[Cen 1920]} By 1930 they moved to Petaluma and rented a home at 1010 "F" Street in Petaluma. Henry worked at a gas company and son Albert milked cows at a dairy.^{[Cen 1930]}

Henry and Therese divorced during the 1930s and moved out of town by 1935 where he worked at a chicken ranch by 1940.^{[Cen 1940A]} He later remarried the widow Lois Bernardine (Shepard) Platz who was born on November 22, 1897, in California.

Therese remarried to Louis Ernie. They were likely together as early as 1935 when both lived in Cummings, Mendocino County, about 165 miles north up Highway 101 from Petaluma. They returned south and resettled in San Rafael, Marin County, where Louis worked as an automobile salesman and daughter Mabel worked as a sale clerk at a bakery.^{[Cen 1940B]}

Henry Joseph Pomi died in Sonoma County, while living in Rohnert Park, on December 30, 1968, at the age of 76. He is buried with his parents and brothers at the Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California.

Henry's widow, Lois Bernardine (Shepard Platz) Pomi died in October 1985 while living in Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, California.

Candin Albert POMI (1894-1916)

1173233E33. Candin Albert Pomi was born December 9, 1894, on the Daywalt tract in Analy Township, east of Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California. He graduated from Mount Vernon School on Gravenstein Highway.

Candin Albert Pomi died following a brief illness at the family home on Friday afternoon, April 28, 1916. He was only 21 years old. He was buried at the Catholic Calvary Cemetery in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California, on May 2.

A week after Candin's burial, arrangements were begun to remove the remains of his father and eldest brother Louis from their resting place in Sebastopol and to place them along side him in Petaluma.

Mabel (POMI BELLON) BADENHOP (1896-1981)

1173233E34. Mabel Dorothy Pomi was born in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, California, on February 8, 1896. She married Walter Michael Bellon, her cousin on their mothers' sides, on August 23, 1919, in Santa Rosa.^{[Mar 1919]} They lived with Mabel's mother and stepfather along Gravenstein Highway, south of Sebastopol in Analy Township, and divorced after 1930.^{[Cen 1920,1930]} After their divorce, Mabel moved into Santa Rosa and took care of two court wards, Donald and Beverly Poggi.^{[Cen 1940]} Mabel is recalled to have adopted Beverly.

--	Donald Wesley Poggi	3 Aug 1929	16 Jun 1996	(66)
--	Beverly Poggi	--	--	--

Mabel's cousin Walter Bellon moved in with her family in Hessel Precinct in Analy township (southeast of Sebastopol along Gravenstein Highway) by 1917, where he farmed for her mother and stepfather.^{[Draft 1917]} He enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War I, and three months after his return the two cousins married on August 23, 1919, at Saint Rose Catholic Church at B Street and 10th Street in Santa Rosa. They were wed by Rev. John M. Cassin.^{[Mar 1919]} After their marriage they continued to live with Mabel's mother through her death in 1929, and continued to live with Mabel's stepfather through 1930.^{[Cen 1920,1930]}

Mabel and Walter divorced in the early 1930s.^{[Cen 1940]} Walter moved to San Francisco, married a divorced nurse, had a daughter, and then moved to Lodi.

Mabel moved into Santa Rosa where she rented 1046 Third Street by 1940. There she lived with her second cousin Mike Magatelli and two court wards, Donald and Beverly Poggi, children of John and the late Sylvia (Yeager) Poggi of Sebastopol.^{[Cen 1940, 1950]}

Mabel remarried to Christopher "Chris" Badenhop, an immigrant from Giersdorf, Hanover, Germany, on March 1, 1952, in Santa Rosa. They lived at 1048 Third Street in Santa Rosa, where Chris worked as a manager at Yellow Cab.^{[Nat 1955]}

Chris immigrated from Germany in 1909 and filed his declaration of intention to naturalize in 1917, during World War I; however, his petition was not completed until 1955 when he took his oath. He was 5' 8" tall, 155 to 158 pounds, with a fair complexion, light brown eyes, and brown hair, and a scar on the right side of his upper lip.^{[Nat 1955]}

Christopher Badenhop died on May 15, 1973 at the age of 77 or 78. He was residing in Santa Rosa at the time.

Mabel Dorothy (Pomi Bellon) Badenhop died eight years later on August 22, 1981, at the age of 85 while residing in Santa Rosa. She was laid to rest at the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Petaluma.^[Grave]

Olga Rosalia (CERINI) CERINE^Δ (1891-1991)

1173233E5A. Olga Rosalia Cerini^Δ was born in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland, on December 5, 1891, and baptized there on December 8. Her godparents were named as Joseph Piezzi and Lucia Cerini.^{[Bap 1891]} Olga was the illegitimate daughter of Carolina Cerini and a man from Austria, likely an ethnic Italian from the northeast region of Trentino-Alto Adige, then controlled by the Austro-Hungary Empire. She immigrated to America at the age of 16 in 1907 and married Enrico "Henry" F. Cerine^Δ, said to be a third cousin, who had changed the spelling of his name after he immigrated to the United States. Together they had three daughters:

1173233E5A1.	Alice C. Cerine	14 Mar 1911	30 Sep 2012	(101)
1173233E5A2.	Henrietta Gladys CerineΔ	25 Apr 1921	24 Aug 2006	(85)
1173233E5A3.	Maybell V. CerineΔ	6 Jun 1922	2 Feb 2011	(88)

Olga immigrated to America at the age of 16 from Switzerland via Cherbourg, France, aboard the Saint Paul, arriving at Ellis Island on December 15, 1907^{[Pass 1907]}. She rejoined her father, Prisiliano, in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California, but by 1910 was living with her cousin Mary (Tognotti) and her husband Felix Phillips in Bolinas Township, Marin County.^{[Cen 1910]}

Olga married Enrico "Henry" F. Cerine, said to be her third cousin, on May 9, 1910, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California. She was 18 years old, he was 28.

Henry

Henry was the son of Antonio & Maria (Felice) Cerini from Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland. He had an elder brother, Severino ("Sem"), who immigrated in October 1897. They had two sisters, Corrina and Malena, who stayed back in Giumaglio with their parents. Henry left Giumaglio at the age of 17, departing from Le Havre, France, aboard the La Champagne and arriving at Ellis Island on June 4, 1899.^{[Pass 1899]}

By the 1900 census, Henry had taken up residence at Angelo and Mary Bulletti's hotel on Western Avenue in Petaluma, Sonoma County.^{[Cen 1900]} On September 26, 1904, Henry was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in Humboldt County, California.

Olga & Henry

Soon after they wed, the Cerines moved to Oregon and began a family. They first lived at Shaniko, Wasco County, in north-central Oregon. Their first-born, Alice, was later born in Portland, Multnomah County, in 1911. About a year later, the Cerine family moved west to Lincoln County in the Coast Range mountains about 90 miles southwest of Portland. There they settled on a dairy farm a few miles up a creek that became known as Cerine Creek, which meets Mill Creek just before it joins the Siletz River at Logsden.^{[Cen 1920-1940]}. Two years after the Cerines settled in Logsden, Henry's brother Sam is recalled to have stopped by and helped Henry build a barn. Daughters Henrietta and Maybell were both born in Logsden and attended Siletz High School.

Eldest daughter Alice moved to San Francisco, California, in 1938, and lived with her uncle Emil Bertelli and his family. She attended the University of San Francisco (USF). Maybell followed two years later, after graduating high school, and also lived with the Bertelli family.

Henry and Olga returned to Sonoma County, California, and settled on a farm at 5573 Volkerts Road in Analy Township (Sebastopol) in 1941.

Henry F. Cerine died on June 15, 1960, in Santa Rosa, at the age of 78. He is buried at Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Petaluma.

Daughter Alice retired from Westinghouse in 1978 and moved to Sebastopol to help Olga tend the farm on Volkerts Road.

Olga R. (Cerini) Cerine died June 27, 1991, just five months shy of her 100th birthday, in Sebastopol. She is also buried at Calvary Catholic Cemetery.

Giulia (BERTELLI) MAGNAGHI (1895-1933)

1173233E5B. Giulia "Julia" Bertelli was born in 1895 in Preore, Trentino-Alto Adige, then under the Austro-Hungary Empire and now Italy. She and her family later moved to Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland. She immigrated, accompanied by her father, arriving in New York on March 11, 1911. She married Augusto "Gus" Magnaghi on August 2, 1915, in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California. The had two children:

1173233E5B1.	Roy Ubaldo Magnaghi	29 Mar 1916	12 Jun 1985	(69)
1173233E5B2.	Inez Bianca Magnaghi	31 Jul 1920	6 Dec 1945	(25)

Julia immigrated, accompanied by her father who had previously settled in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. They departed Le Havre, France, aboard the La Provence on March 4, 1911, and arrived in New York on March 11. She was naturalized in 1915.^{[Pass 1911, Cen 1920]}

Julia and Augusto were married on August 2, 1915, in Stockton, by Hugh J. Tye, Justice of the Peace. The recorded witness to their marriage was C. J. Cadlolo of Stockton. Both Julia and Augusto resided in San Francisco at the time of their marriage and Augusto worked as a stone cutter.^{[Mar 1915]}

August naturalized as citizen in 1918 and rented at 102 G Street in San Rafael, Marin County, California, by 1920, where August worked as a stone cutter at a marble works.^{[Cen 1920]}

During the 1930 census, children Roy and Inez were enumerated with their maternal aunt Marie (Bertelli) Mazzina in Nicasio Township (Point Reyes Station), Marin County.^{[Cen 1930A]} Julia, on the other hand, appears to have been enumerated at 1076 Rhode Island Street in San Francisco where she and August are inexplicably listed as the "Grandi" family and August's age is off by 10 years. Furthermore, with them was enumerated Julia's younger brother, Emil, who at that time was a truck driver for August's coal business and erroneously recorded as August's son-in-law.^{[Cen 1930B]}

Julia (Bertelli) Magnaghi died on May 12, 1933, at about the age of 38. She was buried at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery in San Rafael, Marin County.^[Grave]

August bought 109 G Street in San Rafael by 1935 where he lived with son Roy. August worked as a sculptor of monuments and Roy worked as a salesman for the monuments.^{[Cen 1940]}

Augusto "Gus" Magnaghi died on September 4, 1944, and was also buried at Mount Olivet Catholic Cemetery.^[Grave]

Maria (BERTELLI) MAZZINA (1896-1992)

1173233E5C. Maria "Mary" Bertelli was born in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland on July 19, 1896. She was baptized six days later in Giumaglio as "Blanca Maria" and her godparents named as Franciscus Giumini and Maria Tognetti.^{[Bap 1896]} Mary immigated to America in May 1912^{[Pass 1912, Cen 1930]} and married Alemanno "Mike" Marco Mazzina on October 3, 1915, in San Francisco.^{[Bap 1896, Mar 1915]} They had two sons, both born in Petaluma, Sonom County, California^{[Nat 1950]}:

1173233E5C1.	Guido H. Mazzina	23 Apr 1922	29 Jan 1994	(71)
1173233E5C2.	William J. Mazzina	5 Mar 1924	14 Sep 2009	(85)

Maria left her mother in Giumaglio, Ticino, Switzerland, departing Le Havre, France, aboard the S.S. France on May 18, 1912, and arriving in New York on May 25, nearly a year after her father and elder sister emigrated, to join them in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California.

Maria and Marco were wed in San Francisco on October 3, 1915, by Father F. Garassino. The recorded witness to their marriage was Fred Genazzi, for whom Marco worked as a farm laborer in 1910^{[Cen 1910]}. At the time of their marriage, Maria and Marco lived at 1618 Mason Street in San Francisco. Marco worked as a dairyman and Maria as a housekeeper.^{[Mar 1915]}

Marco registered for the draft during World War I in San Francisco. He put his home address as 528 Broadway Street in San Francisco but corrected that to Live Oak, California, where he worked on a dairy. He claimed exemption from the draft to support his father. Marco was described as 5' 9" tall, 200 pounds, with chestnut hair and chestnut eyes.^{[Draft 1917]}

After Mary and Mike married they lived in Petaluma around the time that their second son was born and afterward moved to Point Reyes Station (Nicasio Township^{[Cen 1930]}), Marin County, where Mike worked for the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP), which ran 300 miles between the North Bay Area and Arcata on the northern coast of California. While living at Point Reyes Station, Maria's nephew and niece, Roy and Inez Magnaghi, lived with them for a while.^{[Cen 1930]}

In 1929, Maria was driving her maternal aunt Annonziatta (Cerini) Marci to Santa Rosa to visit a sick friend when they were struck by a fire truck racing to a brush fire in Bodega at the intersection of South A Street and Sebastopol Avenue in Santa Rosa. Her aunt died, reportedly of fright, soon after arriving at General Hospital in Santa Rosa.

The railroad transferred Mike to San Rafael about 1930 and they bought a house on Park Street where the boys grew up and attended San Rafael High School.^{[Obit 2009]}

Marco was naturalized on September 2, 1943, in San Rafael.^{[Nat 1950]}

Maria petitioned for naturalization at the age of 53 on June 19, 1950, in San Francisco. At the time she was living at 128 Park Street in San Rafael. She described herself as 5' 2" tall, 115 pounds, with light complexion, brown eyes, and black and gray hair. Witnesses on her affidavit were Angelina Abatangelo of San Francisco and sister-in-law Laurette Bertelli of Daly City.^{[Nat 1950]}

Alemanno "Mike" Marco Mazzina died on June 20, 1959, in San Francisco County. He was 71 years old.

Maria "Mary" (Bertelli) Mazzina died on September 21, 1992, in Marin County, California. She was 96 years old.

Vittoria Claudina (BERTELLI) PANDIANI^Δ (1898-1935)

1173233E5D. Vittoria Claudina Bertelli^Δ was born July 4, 1898, in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland. She was baptized there on July 9 and her godparents named as Jacobus Pozzi and Victoria Piezzi.^{[Bap 1898]}

She emigrated to California and married Mario J. Pandiani of Aveno, Italy in Cotati, Sonoma County, California, in 1921. They had one child:

1173233E5D1.

James "Jim" Mario PandianiΔ

21 Jun 1923

21 Feb 2010

(86)

Claudina immigrated with her brothers Emil and Doro, under the name of "Giovanni" ("John"). They departed Cherbourg, France, aboard the Olympic, the first of three sister ships that included the ill-fated Titanic, on June 25, 1920, and arrived at Ellis Island, New York, on July 2. All reported to be from "Giuninglio", Switzerland, (an obvious typo for "Giumaglio") and relatives of a "Mr. C. Bertelli of Giuninglio, Switzerland."

After Claudina and Mario wed they lived at the Lucas Valley ranch, Marin County, where son Jim was born.^{[Obit 2010]}

The whole family took a return trip to Europe, presumably back to Switzerland, in 1930. They returned home via Cherbourg, France, via the Aquitania, in July.

Vittoria Claudina (Bertelli) Pandiani died in San Rafael, Marin County, on January 14, 1935. She was only 36 years old.

Claudina's cousin Hazel (Malugani) Goss recalled that Claudina was one of Aurelia (Cerini) Malugani's favorite nieces--a real sweetheart.

After Claudina's death, 11-year old son Jim is believed to have lived with his maternal aunt Maria (Bertelli) Mazzina. Jim went on to serve in the European Theater of World War II as a radioman and gunner aboard a B-26 Marauder bomber.^{[Obit 2010]}

Mario J. Pandiani died on August 3, 1975, in Marin County at the age of 78 years.

Giacomo Antonio BERTELLI (1900-1907)

1173233E5E. Giacomo Antonio Battista Bertelli was baptized on April 22, 1900, as "Jacobus Antonius Baptista" in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland. He died at the age of 7 from a fall off a mountain in 1907.

Giacomo Giovanni Doro BERTELLI (1905-2000)

1173233E5F. Giacomo Giovanni Doro Bertelli was born in January 21, 1905, in either Trione, Italy, or Switzerland, likely in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, as at least two of his sisters had been. He married Linda L. Cesio but had no children.

Doro ("Giovanni") with his brother Emil and sister Vittoria (Claudina). They departed Cherbourg, France, aboard the Olympic on June 25, 1920, and arrived at Ellis Island, New York on July 2. All reported to be from "Giuninglio", Switzerland (an obvious typo for "Giumaglio") and relatives of a "Mr. C. Bertelli of Giuninglio, Switzerland."

During the 1930 census, Doro was living with his widower uncle Luca S. Marci along Gravenstein Highway (Highway 116) in Analy Township, Sonoma County, California.^{[Cen 1930]}

Doro and Linda were married Monsignor Henry J. M. Wientjes on April 4, 1936, in Carson City, Ormsby County, Nevada. They both had been residing in Cotati, Sonoma County, at the time.

The Bertellis settled along Mountain View Avenue above Petaluma in Sonoma County. Doro worked as a warehouseman for a condensed milk factory.^{[Cen 1940]}

Doro and Linda moved to 747 Boyce in San Francisco, by 1950. (747 Boyce was enumerated between 155 Blake Street and 630 Anza Street, perhaps referring to the modern-day 747 Spruce Street.) Doro worked as a scavenger for Sunset Scavenger.^{[Cen 1950]}

Doro J. Bertelli died at the age of 95 on June 29, 2000, in Sonoma County.

Emilio BERTELLI^Δ (1906-1994)

1173233E5G. Emilio "Emil" Bertelli^Δ was born on August 31, 1906, in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland and emigrated to America with his elder sister and elder brother in 1920. He settled in San Francisco, California, and married Laurette Emma Allen on July 15, 1934, at St. John's Rectory in San Francisco.^{[Mar 1934]} They had five children:

15G1.	Daniel Bertelli	--	--	--
15G2.	Carol Bertelli	--	--	--
15G3.	Patricia Bertelli	--	--	--
15G4.	Diane BertelliΔ	--	--	--
15G5.	Dorthea Bertelli	--	--	--

Emil Bertelli immigrated at the age of 14, departing Cherbourg, France, aboard the Olympic on June 25, 1920, and arriving at Ellis Island, New York, on July 2. He was traveling with his sister Vittoria (Claudina) Bertelli, age 22, and brother Giovanni (Doro), age 15. All reported to be from "Giuninglio", Switzerland (an obvious typo for "Giumaglio") and relatives of a "Mr. C. Bertelli of Giuninglio, Switzerland."

Emil was enumerated with his elder sister Julia (Bertelli) Magnaghi in the 1930 census of San Francisco where they lived at 1076 Rhode Island Street and Emil worked as a truck driver for a coal dealer.^{[Cen 1930]} Two weeks later Emil filed his declaration of intention for natuarlization in San Francisco.^{[Nat 1930]} Emil went on to file his petition for naturalization on January 20, 1936, and three months later swore his oath of allegiance on May 4, 1936.^{[Nat 1936]}

Emil and Laurette were married on July 15, 1934, by Father Thomas J. Browne at St. John's Rectory (St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church) on St. Mary's Avenue in San Francisco. At the time, Emil was working as a butcher and had been living at 27 Rotteck Street, about four blocks west of the rectory; and Laurette had been living at 17 Bepler Street in Daly City, San Mateo County.^{[Mar 1934]}

The Bertellis moved to 76 Santa Marina Street by 1935, where Emil continued work as a butcher in a retail store in 1940.^{[Cen 1940]}

The Bertellis moved about three and a half miles southwest to 34 Bepler Street in Daly City by 1950. Emil continued to work as a butcher and Laurette served as witness to the petition of naturalization for Emil's sister Maria.^{[Cen 1950, Nat 1950]}

Emil Bertelli died on October 29, 1994, in Morgan Hill, Santa Clara County, California. He was 88 years old.

Laurette E. (Allen) Bertelli died 12 years later on April 9, 2009. She was 96 years old.

Giuseppina Maria BERTELLI (1909-2016)

1173233E5J. Giuseppina "Pinotta" Maria Bertelli was born in 1909, a twin with Tridolena who died in infancy. By the time Giuseppina was about 11 years old, her older siblings all emigrated to America between about 1907 and 1920. She, her mother, and her younger brother stayed behind in Giumaglio.

Giuseppina's grandnephew Dell visited her in Giumaglio in 1986. She lived in a facility there and worked in the kitchen. A Bertelli relative (nephew?), who showed Dell the sites of Giumaglio, noted that she was "always happy."

Giuseppina Bertelli died in 2016 at the astounding age of 107.

Giacomo BERTELLI (1911-1985)

1173233E5J. Giacomo "Giacomino" Bertelli was born in 1911, likely in Giumaglio, Ticino canton, Switzerland, as at least two of his sisters had been. He was likely named after an older brother, who died in childhood before his birth, and was called "Giacomino" ("Jimmy"). All of his older siblings, except Giuseppina and his mother, emigrated to America between about 1907 and 1920.

Giacomo married Angelica Zapella.

Angelica (Zapella) Bertelli died in 1979 at about the age of 72 and is buried in Giumaglio.

Giacomo Bertelli died in 1985 at about the age of 74 and is buried with Angelica in Giumaglio.