Sebastiano Tripi III was born in Alia, Palermo, Siciia, Italia May 12, 1847 and baptized May 13, 1847. He is the son of Sebastiano Tripi, II and his wife Rosalia Cimo.
Sebastiano Tripi III was the oldest of eight siblings:
Sebastiano Tripi III born on May 12, 1847.
Arcangelo Tripi who was born in 1849 and passed away in 1850 at the age of about one year.
Vincenzo Calegero Tripi born in 1853, who married Leonarda Andreana Centanni, born 1843, sister of Salvatore Centanni and Michele Centanni, and had children.
Maria Santa Tripi, born December 28, 1858 and named for her older sister who died in infancy. She married Giovanni DiCarlo and had eight children.
Arcangelo Tripi, born 1861, who may have gone to Louisiana, USA with his younger brother to work in the sugar cane fields.
Francesco 'Frank Trippe" Tripi, born 1865, who immigrated to Westwego, Jefferson County, Louisiana to work in the cane fields, and married Lena Latusa, and had several children.
Sebastiano Tripi III of Alia married Marina Mancuso on November 24, 1877, in Alia, Palermo, Sicily, Italy and had several children, including:
Rosalia Tripi, born January 23, 1879 in Alia, Sicilia, married Rosario Centanni in Alia, Sicilia, and died in January 1904, after recently giving birth to her daughter Liboria "Lil" Centanni. Her birth is indexed as Record # 3157 in Indici Decennali, for the year 1879, # 28, and the original image in the Atti di Nascita for 1879, is image 2360 out of 2879
Agatina "Agatha" Tripi, born December 28, 1881, who immigrated to the United States in February 1910 on the ship "Alicia", out of Palermo, and married her sister's widower, Rosario Centanni of Alia, Sicilia on March 20,1910 in Porter County, Indiana and had two children of her own, while raising her niece Liboria "Lil" Centanni.
Sebastiano Tripi IV, born 1885, who stayed in Alia, and likely inherited the family home and land. He probably married and had children, and could be the older gentleman in the family photo in the Alia wheatfield taken July 1956 when his sister Agatina came to visit from the USA.
Maria Tripi, born 1887, who we think either died young or stayed in Alia her entire life.
Giuseppe "Joe" Tripi, born November 25, 1892, who immigrated to Indiana, USA with his sister Agatina and his niece Lillian in February 1910, settled in Gary, Indiana, never married, passed away December 31, 1946 in or near Gary, Indiana and is buried in Porter County, Indiana with his niece Mary Centanne who passed in 1930, and her father Rosario Centanne who passed on March 17, 1952.
Salvatore Tripi, born 1896, who lived to be three years old and died as a child about 1899 in Alia.
Sebastiano Tripi III passed away in Alia, Sicilia, Italia about 1932.
Sebastiano Tripi III is the great-grandfather of Gregory Centanne
Information as researched by Troy-204, Wednesday, October 15, 2014, and updated Thursday, July 23, 2015, and Tuesday, November 19, 2019.
Sources
Italian Birth and Baptisms for Alia, Sicilia, 1806-1900 "Italia, Nati e Battesimi, 1806-1900," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XVB4-JBV : accessed 9 February 2015), Sebastiano Tripi, 13 May 1847; citing Alia, Palermo, Italy, reference yr 1847 rn 90; FHL microfilm 1,331,911/Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01317-1 , System Origin: Italy-EASy , GS Film number: 1331911 , Reference ID: yr 1847 rn 90