Giovanni “John” SAVANT(1–3) was born on 18 May 1895 in Torino, Coassolo, Italy to Giuseppe
Antonio Savant.(4–5) He lived in North Torino, Coassolo in 1919.(2) He immigrated, a
single man and coal miner, in December 1920 from Canada into Vermont where up
his final destination was his brother Giuseppe in Pueblo, Colorado.(2) John was 5 foot 7 inches, medium build with
brown hair and grey eyes.(2) John died
in a gas explosion in Frontier No. 1 coal mine on 14 August 1923 at the age of
28 in Frontier, Wyoming.(4) He was buried on 18
August 1923 in Kemmerer, Wyoming.(4–5) He was single.(4)
1. Kemmerer Republican, (Kemmerer,
Lincoln, Wyoming), 24 August 1923, page 1, microfilm; Lincoln County Library,
519 Emerald Street, Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming 83101.
2. "Vermont,
St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954," online digital, Family
Search, Ancestry.com (FamilySearch.org : online 3 March 2018), Giovanni
Savant Ros; citing "Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings,
1895-1954," database with images, FamilySearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKQS-KFZD : 9 October 2015), Giovanni
Savant Ros, 1920; citing M1464, Soundex Index to Canadian Border Entries
through the St. Albans, Vermont, District, 1895-1924, 411, NARA microfilm
publications M1461, M1463, M1464, and M1465 (Washington D.C.: National Archives
and Records Administration, publication year); FHL microfilm 1,561,497..
3. 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.
4. John Savant,
death certificate file no. 1471 (14 August 1923), State of Wyoming, Wyoming
State Archives, 2301 Central Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001.
5.
Cemetery-Headstone, Kemmerer City Cemetery, Kemmerer, Lincoln, Wyoming. Personal photograph, property of and in
possession of Roberts Roots & Branches, of headstone taken between 2000 and
2003., John Savant.
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