I am looking for info on my grandfather Liborio Cascio's obiituary. Died approx 1939. Can anyone help me?

Question

He died in Chicago in Cook County. I am not sure of the year. I think it was around 1939. He was married to Mary Cascio. She died in 1953. They had 7 children. I have tried for months to get some information on them. They came from Sicily. I am hoping that someone can help me.

Answer 1

This is the first thing that I found for you

New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957

about Liborio Cascio

Name: Liborio Cascio

Arrival Date: 3 Oct 1907

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1881

Age: 26  

Gender: Male  

Port of Departure: Palermo  

Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: Italian (South) (Italian)  

Ship Name: Principe di Piemonte  

Search Ship Database: View the Principe di Piemonte in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database

Port of Arrival: New York, New York  

Nativity: Girgenti, Italy  

Line: 30  

Microfilm Serial: T715  

Microfilm Roll: T715_1006  

Birth Location: Girgenti, Italy  

Birth Location Other: burgio  

Page Number: 105

This document isn't ever so clear, but  I could make out that his height was  short, his build was medium, eyes were brown and hair partly bald.

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918

about Liborio Cascio

Name: Liborio Cascio

City: Not Stated  

County: Williamson  

State: Illinois  

Birth Date: 15 Sep 1879

Race: White  

Roll: 1642841

I am unable to find the 1910 census that includes Liborio and Mary, I shall carry on searching and as soon as I find it I will edit my answer, here's the 1920 census anyway.

1920 United States Federal Census

about Liborio Cascio

Name: Liborio Cascio

Home in 1920: Chicago Ward 1, Cook (Chicago), Illinois

Age: 48 years  

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1872

Birthplace: Italy

Relation to Head of House: Head  

Spouse's Name: Mary

Father's Birth Place: Italy  

Mother's Birth Place: Italy  

Marital Status: Married  

Race: White

s*x: Male

Home owned: Rent  

Year of Immigration: 1901  

Able to read: No  

Able to Write: No  

Image: 844  

Neighbors: View others on page  

Household Members: Name Age

Liborio Cascio 48  

Mary Cascio 38  

Sam Cascio 16  

Minnie Cascio 13  

Ursula Cascio 12  

Paschal Cascio 9  

Francis Cascio 7  

Josephine Cascio 4 6/12  

Mary Cascio 1 9/12

Answer 2

The earliest Cascio obit in the Chicago Tribune Historical Archives Index is from 1940 -- a Joseph Cascio. I also found:

Ursula Smith nee Cascio beloved wife of Raymond S.; loving mother of Mrs. Florence Fruci; fond sister of Mrs. Minnie Geacl, Mrs. Josephine Modica, Frances Cascio, Mrs. Ann Rogalo, and Sam and Pasquale Cascio; grandmother of Therese and Anthony Fruci. Resting at Toon Funeral Home, 109 N. Coss, in Westmont. Mass Wednesday, Nov. 28, 10 a.m. at Holy Trinity church. Interment Queen of Heaven cemetery. WO 8-2262.

Chicago Tribune (IL)

Date: November 26, 1962

Edition: Chicago Tribune

Record Number: 19621126dn118

Answer 3

The obituary--if there is one--would be either in the Sun-Times or the Tribune. Most people weren't in both. Being an Italian from the First Ward, I'm not taking bets on which one. If you're in the Chicagoland area, visit the Washington Library downtown or Sulzer Library on the Northside. They'll have the old newspapers filmed. Also go to the basement of Daley Center and request a copy of the death certificates and marriage license for Liborio and Mary.

If you aren't in the Chicagoland area, you can go to the Cook County GenWeb site and ask a volunteer to pull the obituary for you. Here's a link to the volunteers site that can help you: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ilcook...

Most importantly, find the parish where they worshipped. The parish records will be invaluable and may very well shed quite a bit of light on them. The parish shares sacramental records as long as you give them names and the dates of the marriage, births and deaths that you want them to lookup. Once you have the hometown in Italy, you can similarly write to the rectory there and ask for the baptismal, marriage and death records on ancestors. Church records go back to 1400, so they are invaluable in doing Italian research.