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Some time in the spring of 1916 a young Cesidio Spacca, 16 years old, left his home near Pescara, Italy. He boarded a ship, the America, in Naples early in April and brgan his voyage to this country to join his father. He had come to work in the coal mines of West Virginia to support his family back home. He returned to Italy and then back to America to stay. Taking various jobs; digging ditches, working at the slaughter house and even a stint as a barber.
Jimmy Spacco as he was then called, wasn't getting any younger as the roaring twenties approached. Did he fall in love? Or was a marrage arranged following a custom of his home land? What ever the case he took a bride at the age of 26. The youngest daughter of Francesco and Josephine Stringi, Concettina Stringi was only 17. She was known to have had a beautiful voice and the story goes she had aspirations to be an opera singer. They settled into a rented house on Cottage Street in East Boston and seven months later she was pregnant with Sylvester.
And so the history of the Spacco family began. Six more sons and finally a daughter would become the first generation of American born Spacco's.
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