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Concetto Peppino “Joseph” Cristarella

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Concetto Peppino “Joseph” Cristarella

Birth
Reggio Calabria, Città Metropolitana di Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy
Death
10 May 1962 (aged 74)
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
Burial
East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec. 10 Rg. G, Gr 11
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Concetto was born in Molochio, a small farming village surrounded by olive trees, hills and mountains in the Aspromonte National Park in Southern Italy. He was the second of six children born To Bruno and Grace (nee Muratore) Cristarella. He came to America in 1906 to find his father who had abandoned his family. When he found his father, they had a fight and never saw each other again. Although all his US paper work has his middle and sometimes first name listed as Joseph and born on August 10, 1888, his recently discovered birth certificate says he was born on August 11, 1887 and gives his middle name as Peppino. This is the male version of his grandmother's first name.

He married Maria on July 2, 1910 and they had 10 children together: Grace, Connie, Yolanda, Jean, Josephine, Helen, Fiore, Gloria, Joseph, and Luigi. In Jan, 1920, they lived in Manhattan, NY. By 1926 they moved into Brooklyn where he had a barber shop. They purchased a house on Bayard St. in Brooklyn. That house burned down & they bought a house on West 6th St. In 1926 he worked for the United Fruit Company as a barber on ships going to and from Cuba. Sometime after that he opened a stationery & candy store on Avenue U in Brooklyn, around the corner from his home. He loved opera, cooking-he made a great spaghetti sauce-, smoking Italian cigars, and grew figs and basil in the candy store's backyard. He was a stern father who kept a cat-o-nine tails hanging on his doorknob. He became a diabetic later in life & died at home of an insulin overdose. He is buried with his wife and daughter Helen.
Concetto was born in Molochio, a small farming village surrounded by olive trees, hills and mountains in the Aspromonte National Park in Southern Italy. He was the second of six children born To Bruno and Grace (nee Muratore) Cristarella. He came to America in 1906 to find his father who had abandoned his family. When he found his father, they had a fight and never saw each other again. Although all his US paper work has his middle and sometimes first name listed as Joseph and born on August 10, 1888, his recently discovered birth certificate says he was born on August 11, 1887 and gives his middle name as Peppino. This is the male version of his grandmother's first name.

He married Maria on July 2, 1910 and they had 10 children together: Grace, Connie, Yolanda, Jean, Josephine, Helen, Fiore, Gloria, Joseph, and Luigi. In Jan, 1920, they lived in Manhattan, NY. By 1926 they moved into Brooklyn where he had a barber shop. They purchased a house on Bayard St. in Brooklyn. That house burned down & they bought a house on West 6th St. In 1926 he worked for the United Fruit Company as a barber on ships going to and from Cuba. Sometime after that he opened a stationery & candy store on Avenue U in Brooklyn, around the corner from his home. He loved opera, cooking-he made a great spaghetti sauce-, smoking Italian cigars, and grew figs and basil in the candy store's backyard. He was a stern father who kept a cat-o-nine tails hanging on his doorknob. He became a diabetic later in life & died at home of an insulin overdose. He is buried with his wife and daughter Helen.

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