73. Pernice, Marion

Marion PERNICE(1-2) was born on 26 October 1890 in Santa Ninfa, Traponi, Italy to Mr. and Mrs. Stefanio Pernice.(3-6)  He immigrated on 2 November 1907 to New York with a destination of his uncle’s home in Omaha, Nebraska.(4,7)  Marion was 5 feet 2 inches with brown hair and brown eyes.(5-7) He submitted draft registration cards for WWI on 5 June 1917 in Frontier, Wyoming where he was working for the Kemmerer Coal Company in the Frontier Mine No. 3.(5-6)  He appeared in the census in 1920 in Kemmerer, Wyoming living as a “roomer” with the Angelo Aleo family.(4)  Marion married Mary Estelle (Stella) Alego, daughter of Angelo and Mary Aleo, in Kemmerer on 18 September 1920.(8-11)  Marion, and father-in-law  Angelo, were all in a gas explosion in Frontier No. 1 coal mine on 14 August 1923 at the age of 32 in Frontier, Wyoming.(3)  Marion was buried on 17 August 1923 in Kemmerer.(3)  The day Marion was laid to rest the following appeared in the local newspaper:

Lost Husband and Father

 Mrs. Marion Pernice, a 17-year-old wife with one child, and who is now in a delicate condition in expectation of the second, was sadly bereaved by the explosion.  Her husband, father, cousin and uncle were killed.

In the 1930 Stella was living with her widowed mother, Mary Aleo, in Manhattan, New York, with Stella’s two sisters, one brother and son.(10)  In 1940 Stella and Mary were living in New York, with Stella’s son and Stella’s sister.(11)

Sources:

            1. Kemmerer Republican, (Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming), 24 August 1923, page 1, microfilm; Lincoln County Library, 519 Emerald Street, Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming 83101.

            2. Sneddon Robert T.  Inspector (Dist 1) & Robert V. Hotchkiss Inspector (Dist2), "State Coal Mine Inspectors Of Wyoming, Districts No. 1 and 2," year:  1923; report, 1923; , Wyoming State Archives on microfilm, Cheyenne, Wyoming.

            3. Marion Pernice, death certificate file no. 1404 (14 August 1923), State of Wyoming, Wyoming State Archives, 2301 Central Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001.

            4. 1920,  population schedule, Year: 1920; Census Place: Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming; Roll: T625_2027; Page: 16A; Enumeration District: 56, Marion Pernice boarder; digital images, Ancestry.com (: online 19 July 2011); Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

            5. "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch," digital, FamilySearch, FamilySearch.org (: online 19 July 2011), Marion Pernice; citing United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K687-597 : 12 December 2014), Marion Pernice, 1917-1918; citing Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 2,022,241.

            6. "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918," database with images, FamilySearch," digital, FamilySearch.org, Marion Permice.

            7. "Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957," digital (online), Ancestry.com. New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010., Ancestry.com (: online 19 July 2011), Marion Perncie; citing Year: 1907; Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Microfilm Roll: Roll 1031; Line: 11; Page Number: 42.

8. Kemmerer Republican, (Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming), 17 August 1923, microfilm; Lincoln County Library, 519 Emerald Street, Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming 83101.

8.  Lincoln County, online: 23059, Pernice Alego; Lincoln Couny, Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming.

9.  Marriage Records, Western States Marriage Record Index, BYU/Idaho Special Collections, Rexberg, Idaho, online. familyhistory@byui.edu, page 114 volume 2.

10. 1930, population schedule, Year: 1930; Census Place: Manhattan, New York, New York; Roll: T626_2667; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 0116 FHL #2341282, Mary Aleo and Estelle Pernice; digital images, Ancestry.com (: online 19 July 2011); Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.

11. 1940, population schedule, Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Kings, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02573; Page: 61B; Enumeration District: 24-1064, Stella Pernice; digital images, Ancestry.com (: online 19 July 2011); Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,