H-2(3)

FRANKLIN'S FATHER, JOSEPH, BROTHERS JOSEPH GUISEPPI AND JOHN GIVANNIE, AND HIMSELF CAME TO THE USA FROM NAPLES ITALY TO ESCAPE ANY PROBLEMS WITH THE MAFIA. HIS MOTHER ANTONIA AND SISTER MARIA WERE LEFT IN ITALY. THEY WERE MUSICIANS AND PLAYED ON THE STREET CORNERS TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO COME OUT WEST TO DENVER CO. IN DENVER CO FRANKLIN STARTED SCHOOL. ONE DAY AFTER SCHOOL HE FOUND HIS FATHER AND BROTHERS WERE KILLED MAFIA STYLE. A MAN, LOROCCO, BELIEVED TO BE A RELATIVE, TOOK HIM TO SALT LAKE CITY UT AND LEFT HIM AT AN ORPHANAGE ON 15 OCT 1875. FRANK TOLD THEM WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIS FATHER AND BROTHERS. HE WAS NOT THE TYPE TO STAY AT THE ORPHANAGE. HE TOOK HIS THINGS AND STARTED WALKING UP THE RAILROAD TRACKS UNTIL HE CAME TO PERRY UT. HE WAS TIRED AND SAW A BUCKBOARD PARKED IN FRONT OF A CHURCH. HE CRAWLED IN THE BACK UNDER THE CANVAS AND WENT TO SLEEP. WHEN DUDLY HI AND FAMILY CAME OUT OF CHURCH THEY GOT IN THE BUCKBOARD AND DROVE THE TEAM HOME. WHEN DUDLY PUT THE BUCKBOARD AWAY AND TOOK OFF THE COVER TO GET THE THINGS OUT HE FOUND FRANKLIN. FRANKLIN LIVED WITH THIS FAMILY.(Z)

LATER ON FRANKLIN'S MOTHER MOVED FROM ITALY TO NEW YORK CITY USA. SOMEONE GOT HER IN TOUCH WITH HIM. SHE TOLD HIM "I DON'T WANT YOU TO COME AND SEE ME. WE HAVE TOO MUCH MAFIA AROUND. STAY AWAY!" SHE WAS STILL SCARED FOR HER SON.(Z)

FRANKLIN WAS THERE WHEN ALICE JEANETTE WAS BORN. HE WAS 13 1/2 YEARS OLDER THAN SHE. HE SAID "I AM GOING TO MARRY THAT BABY." HE DID. HE WAITED FOR HER. SHE WAS AGE 20 WHEN THEY MARRIED. (Z)

AS A BEEHIVE GIRL MAUD REMEMBERS STANDING ON THE HAY STACK PITCHING BUNDLES AND ALL THE REST OF THE KIDS IN HER FAMILY GOING TO BEAR LAKE FOR A WEEK VACATION. SHE SAID IT WAS EASIER FOR HER FATHER TO HAVE HER DO THINGS BECAUSE SHE WAS ALWAYS SO DEPENDABLE . SHE ALWAYS WANTED TO PLEASE HER FATHER.(T5)

MAUD SAID SHE WOULD GET BUMB LAMBS AND PUT THEM ON HER HORSE AND TAKE THEM HOME AND RAISE THEM. SHE KNEW DIFFERENT SHEEP RANCHERS AND THEY WOULD SAVE THE LAMBS FOR HER. SHE SAID SHE ALWAYS HAD ABOUT SIX. SHE SAID SHE WOULD GET UP AT FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING TO MILK THE COWS, TAKE THE MILK FOR HER LAMBS, DIP HER FINGERS IN THE MILK AND LET THE LAMBS SUCK HER FINGERS. THEY HAD NO NIPPLES. THAT IS HOW THE LAMBS WERE FED.(T5)

IN 1918 LEILA ALICE GOT THE FLU. SHE WAS REALLY SICK. THE FAMILY SOLD THE FARM TO HORACE ALMA HAYES (C-6 Si N-6) AND MOVED TO BOISE ID.(T3)

LEILA ALICE