Comments on: We spoke just Italian at home http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2012/07/we-spoke-just-italian-at-home.html Stories, quotes and anecdotes. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:24:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: DIANE (CASTELLUCCIO) COSTELLO http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2012/07/we-spoke-just-italian-at-home.html#comment-835292 DIANE (CASTELLUCCIO) COSTELLO Sun, 13 May 2012 02:20:46 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2007/07/we-spoke-just-italian-at-home/#comment-835292 I recently moved to the Clarksburg area of WV and I am related to Colonel Joseph Fucci. My great grandfather, Antonio Castelluccio worked for his uncle Joseph Fucci after
coming to America to earn money and bring over his wife and 3 small children he left in Noepoli, Italy…provence of Potenza, region of Basilicata. He was working on the old Mt. Clare road in Weston, WV an when the dynamite that was placed and lit didn’t go off. He went back to check it…and it blew up. I think he died in the hospital but I’m not sure. He is buried in Machpelah Cemetery in Weston, West Virginia. I have been to his gravesite numerous times. The name reads Antonia Castellucci I believe, but the records pointed to the site. His uncle, Joseph Fucci buried him in the family plot. Mr Fucci and his mother are buried there too.

I would like to hear from you and hear more about your father and the Fucci family. Colonial Fucci is written up in the book “Who’s Who in West Virginia”. Hacker’s Creek Geneaology Society located them all for me when I lived in Los Angeles, and when I visited my family in Bridgeport, Clarksburg and Fairmont and our family reunion, I found the cemetery in Weston. I know Colonial Fucci was a highly respected and very honest man according to the “Who’s Who in West Virginia” biography…and that the last name has been noted as Fuccy now and not the original Italian spelling of Fucci. Our family name on my father’s side was Castelluccio…and that
is the maiden name of Colonial Fucci’s mother. I found her death certificate a few years back, and that confirmed that
he was related to my great grandfather Antonio Castelluccio as
his nephew or possibly his cousin. I have some information on them, but haven’t been able to find anything written about the dynamite explosion in Weston. I probably should check the
microfiche at the Weston Court House to see if a newspaper article was written about the explosion that killed my great grandfather. There is only a year of death in the cemetery records of 1901…he was born in 1870 I believe…so he was either 29 or 30 when he died..depending on the month he died.

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