There have been 3 different spellings of the surname, the most common being, LETTERIE...The official spelling should be LETTERIO. This is according to research done by the Providence government of Sulmona Italy Official records from there,indicate the correct spelling is LETTERIO. . The third spelling is indicated only on the grave marker of Paul and Nancy which is LETTERII. Annunziata "Nancy" (Centofanti) Letterie was born in Sulmona, Italy on 3/24/1885 to the parents of Martino "Martin" Centofanti and Maria Grazia "Grace" (Mastrangioli Centofanti. Very little is know of her life in Italy. She was Baptiste in May of 1885 in the same town. Little is know of her early life in Italy. She married Panfilo "Paul" Letterie on 1/17/1901 in her same town. Later the couple moved to USA to the Pittsburgh Pa area and then finally to Philadelphia, Pa. She had a total of 10 children.The first rented a house on Almond St. in Philadelphia and later purchased a house at 2465 E. Somerset St. in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia. This area was noted for the Italian immigrants that located in Philadelphia.She was a very kind person, was a houswife while her husband Panfilo work for the Reading Railroad doing maintenance on steam engines.She had a stroke in her late years and could not talk. On 4/29/1951 she passed away. She was then buried with her husband, Panfilo at Holy Redeemer Cemetery in the Port Richmond section in Philadelphia, Pa.

Annunziata "Nancy" (Centofanti) Letterie was born to the parents of Martino and Maria Grazia (Mastrangioli) Centofanti in a small farming town of Sulmona in the Abbrezzii region of Italy on March 24, 1885. Little is known of her youth other then the fact the she would baby sit for another family in the same town with the same last name of Centofanti. At the age of sixteen she married Paul Letterie of the same town. Paul went to America to make money in the coal mines in Dunbar, located outside of Pittsburgh, Pa for his family. This was a common method of making money during these hard economic times, he had originally gone when he was Eleven years old, making nine round trips. While Paul was in America, his first child, Felice was born in 1905. Nancy had difficulties with her legs as a result of her giving birth to her first child. Because of this, Felice was raised for the first five years by her grandmother on her father's side, Maria Vincenza (Mangiarelli) Letterio. It took her a long time before she would recover form this birth. She had her second child while living in Sulmona, his name being Thomas. The family then moved to America coming though Ellis Island, NY in 1911. The family then settled in Dunbar, Pa. where Paul, her husband had worked before, got a job in the steel mills near Pittsburgh. The reason for settling in Dunbar was that Nancy's sister Carmella had immigrated there a few years earlier. Nancy could not get use to the polluted air from the steel mills and since there were jobs and friends in Philadelphia the family moved to the Port Richmond section of the city where the were many other families from the Sulmona region of Italy. Her sister also lived in the same neighborhood. Paul with the help of his Brother-in-Law, Christrofo Pandolfo, got a job with the Reading Railroad in railroad yards on East Somerset Street. Annunziata was a housewife who raised their children at home of which ten were born and seven lived pass infancy. She was a housewife who liked cooking and enjoyed her family and friends. Her friends would visit in the afternoon, bringing their husband's evenings dinner with them They would then cook it on the stove while visiting with Annunztia. The would rotate the visiting home on a weekly basis. The neighborhood during these times were very close, it seemed that everyone knew each other or was related in some way. Most people were Roman Catholic and attended church on a regular basis., which was St. Anne's or Mother of Divine Grace which was the "Italian" church in the neighborhood. The type house, they lived in was called a "house and a half which consisted of a house with a extension which rooms were rented to borders. Nancy also had a younger sister, "Codmella" who lived in the same neighborhood, they were best of friends. Codmella came to America a few years earlier then Nancy and lived in Dunbar, Pa. Codmella was married with six children when her husband died in Dunbar, Pa. Annunziata had a stroke in 1950 and as a result of it, became bedridden. A year later she had another stroke and died at home on April 29,1951. She was buried with her husband at Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pa. 19134 (Lot# W-20-60). The grave marker is listed as LETTERII