Luigi Grossi
Luigi Grossi was born on 2 January 1888 at Lenola, a hill town in what was then the province of Caserta and is now the province of Latina, between Rome and Naples. His parents were Alfonso Grossi and Maria. The date is the one on his gravestone and on most of his papers; two of his naturalization filings wrote 22 January instead.
He was in Hartford, Connecticut, by the beginning of 1911, when he was 23. On 17 February 1911 he went to the Circuit Court at Hartford and swore his declaration of intention to become a citizen, certificate 3120. A year later, on 6 February 1912, he married Immacolata Cibelli at East Hartford; the clerk wrote her name as Tumacolatine Cibella and his as Louigi, and recorded his parents as Alphonse and Mary Grossi. Their first child, Alphonse, was born at Farmington that November. Seven more followed: Frank, Mary, Sarah, Emma, John, Richard and Albert.
His path to citizenship was long. He petitioned the United States District Court at Hartford on 14 April 1916, filed a fresh declaration of intention on 10 February 1920, petitioned again on 20 April 1936, and was finally naturalized on 12 January 1940. Each filing named his wife Immacolatina, born in Italy; the last noted that they were divorced. In April 1940 he was living in Ward 12 of Hartford in the household of his son Alphonse, with Alphonse's wife Mary, their two small children, and his own daughter Mary, aged eighteen.
He died at Hartford on 4 September 1960, aged 72, divorced, with his home at Bloomfield. He was buried at Mount St. Benedict Cemetery in Bloomfield under a flat stone reading "Father, Luigi Grossi, Jan. 2, 1888, Sept. 4, 1960," beside the matching "Mother" stone of his daughter-in-law Mary.
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Cite: Heirology, "Luigi Grossi (1888-1960)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/luigi-grossi-1888-1960-5eedeb.