Giovanni was born in Grezzo di Bardi, Parma Province, Italy and married his childhood friend and neighbor Domenica Rabaiotti on 2 May 1876 in Bardi, Parma Province.
They left Grezzo with son Luigi for England in about 1878 or 1879 where Giovanni worked as an organ repairer in the Borough of Chelsea, a London suburb, in 1881. In May 1883 the family, now with 3 kids, left Liverpool, England on the steamship S. S. City of Rome and landed at Castle Garden in New York on 1 Jun 1883. By 1884 they lived in Mayfield, (now Palo Alto), Santa Clara County, California where Giovanni owned, among other things, a livery business, a wood and coal yard, a grocery store, and an auto repair shop at 529 Alma Street in Mayfield. He was later a painter at Stanford University. They lived in Mayfield, having six more children there, until they died.
They had purchased three cemetery plots at Holy Cross Cemetery in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California in order to be buried next to their oldest son Luigi who died in 1887 after being kicked by a horse at their livery stable (see lower photo). They are now encrypted on each side of their daughter Ida in the mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, San Mateo County, California.
BRACCHI--In Palo Alto, Monday,
January 18, 1937. Giovanni
Bracchi, husband of Domenica
Bracchi and father of Mrs. Vir-
ginia Kellenberg, Mrs. Jennie
Vandervoort, and Luigi, Bart, Henry,
William, Ernest and Leland J.
Bracchi and the late Mrs. Ida
Brickell. A native of Italy,
aged 80 years. Notice of fu-
neral later. (Tinney Funeral
Home).
Giovanni was born in Grezzo di Bardi, Parma Province, Italy and married his childhood friend and neighbor Domenica Rabaiotti on 2 May 1876 in Bardi, Parma Province.
They left Grezzo with son Luigi for England in about 1878 or 1879 where Giovanni worked as an organ repairer in the Borough of Chelsea, a London suburb, in 1881. In May 1883 the family, now with 3 kids, left Liverpool, England on the steamship S. S. City of Rome and landed at Castle Garden in New York on 1 Jun 1883. By 1884 they lived in Mayfield, (now Palo Alto), Santa Clara County, California where Giovanni owned, among other things, a livery business, a wood and coal yard, a grocery store, and an auto repair shop at 529 Alma Street in Mayfield. He was later a painter at Stanford University. They lived in Mayfield, having six more children there, until they died.
They had purchased three cemetery plots at Holy Cross Cemetery in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California in order to be buried next to their oldest son Luigi who died in 1887 after being kicked by a horse at their livery stable (see lower photo). They are now encrypted on each side of their daughter Ida in the mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, San Mateo County, California.
BRACCHI--In Palo Alto, Monday,
January 18, 1937. Giovanni
Bracchi, husband of Domenica
Bracchi and father of Mrs. Vir-
ginia Kellenberg, Mrs. Jennie
Vandervoort, and Luigi, Bart, Henry,
William, Ernest and Leland J.
Bracchi and the late Mrs. Ida
Brickell. A native of Italy,
aged 80 years. Notice of fu-
neral later. (Tinney Funeral
Home).
Family Members
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Luigi Giuseppe Pietro "Louie" Bracchi
1877–1887
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Virginia Louise Bracchi Kellenberg
1880–1945
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Bartolomeo Francesco (Benjamin) "Bart" Bracchi
1882–1968
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Jennie Mary Bracchi Vandervoort
1884–1981
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Henry Francis Bracchi
1887–1958
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William Lewis "Bill, Willie" Bracchi
1888–1941
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Ida Marie Bracchi Brickell
1892–1931
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Leland Joseph Bracchi
1893–1947
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Ernest Joseph "Ernie" Bracchi
1896–1957
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