The Ungaretti Family

My Mother's maternal great grandparents were Louise Casagrande and Anthony Rosasco. Both were born in Genoa, Italy: Louise in 1851 and Anthony in 1848. In 1870 they married and moved to New York City in hopes of finding a place to make a better living. Their eldest child, Rose was born in New York in 1871. After her birth the family moved to Chicago where Anthony worked in candy factory. They had eleven children, eight of whom survived. Rose visited some friends in St. Paul where she met Pacifico Ungaretti. She left her family and moved to St. Paul when she married him in 1891. Her Father felt terrible that his daughter should move so far from him. In those days Chicago and St. Paul were considered to be a world apart. Anthony died in 1892 and Louise died in 1928
Pacifico Ungaretti was born in Lucca, Italy in 1864. When he was 13 he and a boy friend came by boat to the United States to seek their Fortune. He opened a fruit stand in St. Paul and later lived in Eau Claire, Wisconsin for a short period. When he returned to St. Paul he opened another fruit store. Pacifico and Rose had five children: Joseph, Paul, Dante, Louise and Gemma. Their second child Louise is my grandmother. Pacifico died in 1929 when he was 65 years old. He died of a heart attack in the drug store at Fairview and Grand in St. Paul. Their house was next door. Rose lived to be 90 years old and died in California, in 1961. She had been visiting her daughter in Los Angeles at the time. Both Pacifico and Rose are buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(The above text was written by TomLeoard in 1970)

Pacifico Ungaretti

Rose Rosasco Ungaretti

 

 

St Paul Dispatch January 4,1946 Joseph A Ungaretti, 2114 Dayton Ave. died suddenly in his home Thursday following a heart attack. Born in St Paul 53 years ago, he had lived here all his life. Mr. Ungaretti was well known in St Paul and in Minnesota as a former deputy sheriff of Ramsey county and by his affiliation with the federal alcohol tax and state liquor control units. Durig World War II, Mr Ungaretti was one of the state liquor control employees loaned to the federal government and at the time of his death he was still engaged in federal alcohol tax duties. He also was known as an ameteur sportsman in bowling and diamondball circles in St Paul. He was a veteran of World War I, and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. From 1920 to 1928 fe was in the confectionery business with his father at Fifth and Robert. In 1923 he married Margaret Florence Gonella, who survives him. Others surviving include his mother, Mrs. Rose Ungaretti of St Paul; Three daughters, Mrs. R. E. Rheinberger, Mrs. H. A. Hauser and Delores all of St Paul; two sisters, Mrs. J. A. Capecchi of St Paul, and Mrs. A. C. Peterson of Los Angeles; two brothers, Dante J and Paul J. of St Paul; and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 8:30 a.m. Monday in the Chas. A. Gobout & Sons mortuary, 560 W. Seventh st., and at 9 a.m. in St. Mark's Catholic church, Dayton and Moore

 

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