Vic (n dark clothes) as a child in Hadley, Mass.

Irene Frances Sears as a small child in Leeds, Mass.

Vic's mother Emma Vollinger, c. 1897.

Irene's parents Ethel (Porter) and Alexander Sears wedding.

Vic's father Gieuseppe (age 16) and grand-mother Vittoria Coronato DePaola (40) arrive in NY from Pertosa, Italy Feb. 3, 1891 - Burgundia ship log.

Alexander's parents, Emilie (Carpentier) and Peter Sears, raised Irene after her mother died and father moved.

Joe (no longer Giueseppe) DePaola and his grandson, Dick McGee at his home at 28 Plymouth Avenue, Florence, MA.

Emilie's father Francis Xavier Carpentier (1828-1916) fought in the Civil War.

Joe was a tailor. A "dapper" man always with a cigar.

Francis Xavier became a US Citizen March 18,1868, required to renounce "particularly" Queen Victoria.