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Livio, I've just been trying to decipher this as well and we have basically read the same words.
Her name was Grazia Rizzo.
SG: Registered on 20 April 1899 8.20 am
She died at 6.02 am yesterday (19 April 1899) at a house in Via ….Viale, No 33. She was aged 73, a contadina (peasant), born and residing in SG, daughter of deceased Gaetano and deceased Serafina Granata, who both lived in SG when living. She was the wife of Simone Beniamino???.
AngelaGrace56 wrote:Livio, I've just been trying to decipher this as well and we have basically read the same words.
Her name was Grazia Rizzo.
SG: Registered on 20 April 1899 8.20 am
She died at 6.02 am yesterday (19 April 1899) at a house in Via Nord Viale, No 33. She was aged 73, a contadina (peasant), born and residing in SG, daughter of deceased Gaetano and deceased Serafina Granata, who both lived in SG when living. She was the wife of Simone Beniamino???.
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