I can't thank you enough for your help! I am going to check those names with my family and see what they think. If they don't ring any bells with anyone, I may write to Italy and see what the commune has to say.
For some reason, I am having trouble getting the manifest to come up on the internet, but I have a copy of it here.
It is dated January 28, 1903 and has my great-grandfather's final deestination listed as Philadelphia. I know from his birth certificate that he was born November 5, 1884.
Their names were Liberatore Tumolo and Mary Acquaviva. Liberatore had an alternate spelling of Liberato and it is possible that Tumolo may have an extra "m".
As for the years, they would have been married some time between 1903 and 1910.
Thank you so much for your help, and if there is ...
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