OK thanks! So it wasn't anyone's funeral after all?

Strange....I wonder why my great grandfather would be telling stories about Troia. He was from there but as a coal miner in Pennsylvania I don't think he was a particularly educated man. And I wonder why he would have bothered to spend the money (they were quite poor) on a letter back to Italy ...

Please translate this personal letter from my great grandfather Domenico Montanari. Thank you!

Can someone translate this handwritten funeral bill?

The named person is Diego Montanari, who I believe is my Grandmother's paternal Grandfather. He was married to Maria Caputo in Troia in 1903, and the only children I know of so far was a daughter Marie Pucariello of Norwalk CT and a son Domenico ...

Hello! (I hope this isn't a double post, the first time I tried it sort of crashed or something.)

I'm having trouble reading the handwriting from public records someone obtained for me in Italy. I'm hoping someone with more experience with Italian styles and phrases would be so kind as to have a ...