Guiseppe Altadonna (1887 - 1947)

Born 5 Dec 1887 in Carini, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Died 25 Mar 1947 at age 59 in Wamac, Clinton, Illinois, United States

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Biography

Joe Altadonna was killed in the Centralia Mine Disaster on 25-Mar-1947

Joe Altadonna has Italian Roots.

Joe was born in 1887.

He worked as a coal miner. He passed away in 1947, perishing in the coal mine disaster of Mine No. 5, near Centralia, Illinois. He is buried at Saint Lawrence Cemetery, Sandoval, Marion County, Illinois.

Notes

Article on Centralia Mine Disaster: https://drloihjournal.blogspot.com/2017/03/centralia-illinois-mine-5-disaster-of.html?m=1#:~:text=%20THE%20VICTIMS%20OF%20THE%20CENTRALIA%20MINE%20DISASTER%3A,years%2C%20married%2C%20He%20leaves%20a%20widow.%20More%20

Centralia Mine Disaster, 1947

Sources

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJHN-2VL : 1 February 2021), Joseph Altodonna, 1920.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWC2-8R8 : 8 January 2021), Joe Altadonna, Sandoval Township, Marion, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 61-41, sheet 5A, line 22, family 89, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 853.
• "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V1VP-RWM : 13 March 2020), Guiseppe Altadonna, 1942; citing NARA microfilm publication M1936, M1937, M1939, M1951, M1962, M1964, M1986, M2090, and M2097 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQBB-MBC : 8 March 2018), Joe Altadonna, 25 Mar 1947; Public Board of Health, Archives, Springfield; FHL microfilm 1,991,770.