Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameGiovanni “Neto” TRABUCCO
Birth Date8 Sep 1885
Birth PlaceAgliè, Torino, Piedmont, Italy
Death Date22 Oct 1918 Age: 33
Death PlaceFlorence, Fremont County, Colorado
MemoDied In Colorado.
Burial Date24 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 in Colorado ~1911- died here in 1918.

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Died at Rockvale Tuesday Morning

John Trabucco, aged thirty-three years, died at his home in Rockvale, Tuesday morning from pneumonis, follow an attack of Spanish influenza. the deceased was stricken with the disease a couple of weeks ago and pneumonia developed five or six days later. Trabucco was a native of Italy and was unmarried. Although there have been a large number of cases of influenza in Rockvale since the outbreak of the present epidemic, Trabucco’s death has been the only one that has taken place there from it.
Trabucco was a member of the Italian societies at Rockvale and his associates of those organizations had charge of the funeral arrangements. Burial was at Highland cemetery at Florence at 2 o’clock this afternoon.

Date 24 Ost 1918.

from Canon City Record 24 Oct 1918 Thursday Page 4.

On Ancestry from Bonnie K Vaccaro.

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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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