Assunta (D'Agosto)
Errico
1898 -
1973
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| PARENTS | SIBLINGS | SPOUSE | CHILDREN | ||
| Luigi D'Agosto | Cosimo | Frank Errico | Frank | ||
| Marianna Vigorito | Andrea | Adeline | |||
| Joseph | Louis | ||||
| Ursula | |||||
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| Luigi | |||||
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D’Agosto was born in Gioi, Italy in 1898, to Marianna (Vigorito) and Luigi
D'Agosto. She attended school in Italy where she studied academic subjects in the
morning and sewing in the afternoon. Girls and boys went to separate schools.
The government paid for education through the fifth grade. In the early 1900’s her two brothers, Andrea and Cosimo, were in Argentina. Three other brothers, Nicholas, Joseph and Anthony, as well as her sister, Ursula, were in America. Her other brother Luigi was away at school. Her parents worried that she had no chaperone to be with her when she went out. They decided it would be better for her if she went to America to be with her brothers and sister. She arrived in America aboard the Santa Anna and came thru Ellis Island on June 11, 1914 at the age of 16, just before World War I broke out. In America she went to evening school to learn English until her brother Nicholas made her quit. He said that no decent girl went out at night. She had a lot of trouble with her brothers who were very strict with her. Finally she went to live with her sister Ursula. She married Frank Errico in August 1920. They had three children, Frank, Adeline and Louis. She sewed dresses and coats in clothing factories in New York City and Jersey City. Later, she also worked in a department store in Jersey City doing alterations. She did beautiful embroidery, fillet crochet, dressmaking and beadwork. She was a victim of Parkinson’s disease in her later life.
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