Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameGiovanni “Neto” TRABUCCO
Birth Date8 Sep 1885
Birth PlaceAgliè, Torino, Piedmont, Italy
Death DateOct 1918 Age: 33
Death PlaceFlorence, Fremont County, Colorado
MemoDied In Colorado.
Burial Date23 Oct 1918
Burial PlaceFlorence, Fremont County, Colorado, Union Highland Cemetery
MemoOld Cemetery Lot 39 Blk 14 Right Side
OccupationMiner In A CF&I Subsidiary Mine.
FatherPietro Giorgio TRABUCCO (1857-1937)
MotherAurelia Cattarina MICHELA (1863-1941)
Spouses
Family ID665
Unmarried
No Children
Notes for Giovanni “Neto” TRABUCCO
ITALIAN IMMIGRANT ANCESTOR Giovanni in Colorado abt 1911- died here in 1918.

Died of “Spanish” influenza.

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Was Mom’s Godfather.

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TRABUCCO: Italian: metonymic occupational name for a trapper, from Old Italian trabucco ‘trap’, ‘pitfall’, Sicilian trabbuccu ‘(mouse)trap’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press

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Burial: Block 14, Lot 39 Union Highland Cemetery

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He had a great singing voice.

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He is buried on the right side of the same plot as Grandpa & Grandma Trabucco.
On his tombstone is written:
Quin pos ula si uma del
DEFUNTO TRABUCCO
GIOVANI
Nato 1885
Mono 1918

Defunto in Italian means dead, defunto is not his name but an adjective.
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Sometimes called Giovanni “Guining” Trabucco or Giovanni “Neto” Trabucco

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Letter from Pietro Scavarda and Angelo Scavarda Sep 29, 1994.

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Cemetery records show he was buried Oct 23, 1918.

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Photograph has him in Italian? army uniform.

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