Ferdinando Frazzini and His Siblings

My first cousin, Madalyn Frazzini Perrine, has been communicating with Mark DiVecchio regarding the Frazzini genealogy. My father is Lawrence Frazzini. His father was Tommaso Mario Frazzini, born 1 Nov 1878. Mark had questions regarding Ferdinando Frazzini, my father's uncle. Mark was wondering if my father Lawrence remembers his uncle Ferdinando. He does remember him.. My father was 10 years old when he came back to the USA fom Italy. He remembers Ferdinando from his early childhood. Uncle Ferdinando would take him (Lawrence)and his sister Raphaela and brother Eugenio to the plaza in Castelo di Sangro (the town where my father's mother Adele was from) to hear concerts. Mark also had questions about Adele's family name. Adele's family name was Gasbarro. Adele and Tomasso were married in Utah. Raphaella and Eugenio were born in Utah in 1906 and 1909. Tomasso was working for the Southern Pacific Railroad. He was the foreman. The railroad progressed into Nevada, which is where Lawrence was born. Tomasso died in 1918 of the Spanish influenza when my father Lawrence was only 5 years old. My father's maternal grandparents, Maria and Lorenzo Gasbarro, were living with them in the USA. After Tomasso passed away, the family moved back to Castelo di Sangro, Italy for almost 3 years. Then they decided to move back to the USA. They settled in Illinois because Adele's sister Virginia and husband, Joseph Petrarca, lived there.


Cav. Ferdinando Frazzini Ragioiere Capo nelle Intendenza di Finanza nato in S. Pietro Avellana addi 25 aprile 1891 morto a Sospiro (Cremona) il 6 aprile 1930	This narrative and the above map from: http://www.tirerack.com/wheels/millemig/millemig_info.jsp Nearly 75 years ago a legendary road race, the Mille Miglia (mee-lay meel-yah) was run for the first time in Brescia, Italy. Italian for "One Thousand Miles", the Mille Miglia covered a 1,009-mile loop through the middle of Italy’s “boot” with average speeds of just 48 mph. By 1955 speeds reached almost 98 mph and Stirling Moss drove the winning Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR to victory. Deemed too dangerous for Italy’s open roads, the Mille Miglia was discontinued after its 1957 running. Today, though, the race lives on in a more reserved fashion. Collector’s cars run much the same route and follow the same historical Red Arrow that marked the first road course in an annual event that brings millions of spectators to Italy’s roadsides. To read more about the Mille Miglia, look at Smithsonian Magazine for May 2002.

His funeral booklet	Page 17 of the booklet. It shows nato S. Pietro Avellana (Campobasso) 25-4-1891 dec. S. Salvatore di Sospiro (Cremona) 6-4-1930 1891 is one of the years missing from the LDS microfilm.

ID Number	379575
Grooms First Name	Tommaso M.
Grooms Last Name	FRAZZINI
Grooms Residence	Kelton, Box Elder, Utah
Brides First Name	Adele
Brides Last Name	GASBARRO
Brides Residence	Ogden, Weber, Utah
County of Record	Weber Co., Utah


Dear Mark, Here are the photos from our trip to Battle Mountain, Nevada when we visited my grandfather, Thomas Frazzini's gravesite. I am forwarding them all to you. You can choose the ones that you want for your website. You can see that on the tombstone, my grandfather's name is spelled "Thommas". Please keep in touch! Carol Elliott	Aug 2005 Lawrence Frazzini at the gravesite of his father Tommaso Maria Frazzini who died in 1918 during the Spanish Flu outbreak. Carol sent news that her father, Lawrence, died in June of 2006.

Siblings of Ferdinando Frzzini

Tommaso Mario Frazzini