Mary Jean Tocci

Notes:

His Pennsylvania birth certificate shows him as the 5th child born to his parents, and the fourth still living, His name was recorded as Frank Antonio Tocci, and parents were shown as Angelo Tocci and Mary Mambuca, both born in Italy, and both residents of Creekside. Angelo was a merchant.

Frank married the younger is sister of his brother's wife, Olive Ruth, both daughters of Christopher C Hoover and Sally McSweeney. When he registered for the drated during World War II, he and Ruth were living on 319 Locust St in Indiana, Pennsylvania. He self employed, operated a Fruit and Produce Market in Indiana, PA. He was shown as 5'4 inches tall, weighing 140 pounds, with a dark complexion and brown eyes and hair.

At the time of the 1940 census, they were also shown as renting a home at 319 Locust Street. Frank was shown as completing 4 years of High School, and as the propietor of a Fruit Store. Ruth had been in school through the 8th grade. They lived with their 5 children, and with a 17 year old live in maid, Betty Kozmovick.

Obituary
The Indiana (PA) Gazette, Wednesday, January 21, 1970

Frank A. Tocci, 62, a former resident and businessman in Indiana, died unexpectedly Sunday, Jan. 18, 1970, in Cleveland, Ohio.

He was employed by Fisher Foods while living in Indiana and has been a resident of Ohio for the past 17 years.

Surviving are five sons and two daughters: Robert and Thomas, both of Indiana; Richar, Simi, Calif.: William Akron, Ohio; Joseph, Sea Isle, N.J.; Mrs. John (Jeane) Steel and Mrs. Sally Duke, both of Monroeville; 17 granschildren; the following brothers and sisters, Louis, John and Julia, all of Indiana' Nick, Parma, Ohil; and Mrs. John (Virginia) Woodford, Parma Heights, Ohio.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, James Tocci.

Friends are being received at Monreal Funeral Home, 15144 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, where services will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. Interment will be made at Highland Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio.

Frank married Olive Ruth Hoover on 19 Feb 1931 in Pennsylvania. Olive (daughter of Christopher Clair Hoover and Sally Edna McSwiney) was born on 19 Nov 1912 in South Mahoning, Plumville, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; died on 4 Feb 2007; was buried in Oakland Cemetery and Mausoleum, Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Olive married the younger is brother of her sister's husband, Frank, both sons of Angelo Tocci and Mary Rose Mambuca.

A photo on Find A Grave, from the Oakland Cemetery and Mausoleum, shows the following three names:

Ruth Tocci 1912-2007
Kenneth K Snyder Sr 1927-2013
Betty L [nee KINTER] Snyder 1927-No Date of Death yet shown

Ruth's relationship to the Snyder's is not known. Per the obituary of Kenneth Snyder, also viewable on Find A Grave he is a son of Archie and Florence McKay Snyder, and the brother of Betty Smith. His wife born in 1927 was Betty Lou Kinter Snyder. It is possible they simply share the same space in the Mausoleum, and were not related.

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Married:
The Indiana [Pennsylvania] Progress
February 25, 1931

Tocci-Hoover

Frank Tocci, of Creekside, and Miss Olive Ruth Hoover, of Indiana, were united in marriage by Father Emilio Farri, at Ernest, on February 19, The groom is the son of Angali Tocci and is employed as a salesman. The bride is a daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Chistopher Hoover, of Indiana.

Notes:

On this Pennsylvania Death Certificate, informant being his eldest daughter Julia of the home, he was shown as born in San Georgeo, Albania (sic), to Francesco Antonio Tocci and Maira Scavella. His usual occupation was proprietor, retail grocery store.

Obituary,copied from Find A Grave, follows:

Angelo Tocci of Clark street, died in the Indiana Hospital at 2:30 a.m. Friday, March 23. He was born in San Giorgio Albanese (paper has 'Albania'), December 8, 1873, a son of the late Francesco and Maria Scavella Tocci.

Mr. Tocci was a merchant, and had resided in Creekside for 32 years. He had been a resident of Indiana for the past 14 years, where he was a member of St. Bernard's Catholic Church and the Royal Arcanum Lodge.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Tocci, five sons; James, Frank, Louis, Nicholas, and John Tocci, all of Indiana; and two daughters: Miss Julia Tocci of Indiana and Mrs. Virginia Woodford of Cleveland, Ohio. Ten grandchildren are also surviving.

3/24/1951 Indiana Evening Gazette page 2

(Research):
Census Listings:

1910 Census
Pennsylvania, Indiana County, Creekside, Sheet 1B
Enumerated 15 April 1910
21-22
Tocci, Angelo Head M White 37 M1 12 years Born Italy/Italian (as were both parents) Immigrated 1880 Naturalized Speaks English Merchant Grocery Store Can Read/Write
Tocci, Mary Wf Female White 27 M1 12 years Mother of 6 children/5 still living Italy/Italian (as were both parents) Immigrated 1887 Speaks English Can Read/Write
Tocci, Julia Dtr F W 10 S Pa Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Can Read/Write Did NOT attend school during the year
Tocci, Tressa M Dtr F W 7 S Pa Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Attended school during the year
Tocci, James Son M W 5 S Pa Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Attended school during the year
Tocci, Farnk A Son M W 3 S S Pa Italy/Italian Italy/Italian
Tocci, Louis Son M W 4/12 S S Pa Italy/Italian Italy/Italian
Tocci, James Brother M W 42 S Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Immigrant 1888 Pa English Retail Merchant Grocery Store Italy/Italian Can Read/Write
Tocci, Mary Mother F W 77 Wd 2/2 Mother of 2 children/both living Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Immigrated 1887 Speaks Italian Can Read/Write

1920 Census
Pennsylvania, Indiana County, Creekside, Creek Side Borough SD 18 ED 107 Sheet 2A
Enumerated 10 through 12 January 1920
HH 32/35
Tocci, Angelo Head M W 48 M 1888 Naturalized in 1906 Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Retail Merchant Groceries Reads/Writes
Tocci, Mary R Wife F W 38 M 1886 Naturalized in 1906 M 1888 Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Reads/Writes
Tocci, Julia H Dtr F W 19 ?sup?S Pennsylvania ?/sup? Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Reads/Writes
Tocci, James Son M W 14 S Pennsylvania Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Attended School Reads/Writs
Tocci, Frank A Son M W 12 S Pennsylvania Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Reads/Writes
Tocci, Louis Son M W 10 S Pennsylvania Italy/Italian Italy/Italian Reads/Writs
Tocci, Nicholas Son M W 7 S Pennsylvania Italy/Italian Italy/Italian
Tocci, Emilia V Dtr F W 5 S S Pennsylvania Italy/Italian Italy/Italian
Tocci, John J Son M W 2 3/12 S S Pennsylvania Italy/Italian Italy/Italian

Angelo married Mary Rose Mambuca on 17 Jul 1897 in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. Mary (daughter of Louis Mambuca and Rosa Teresa Iorio) was born on 28 Oct 1882 in Naples, Citta Metropolitana di Napoli, Campania, Italy; died on 23 Sep 1967 in White Township, Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; was buried on 26 Sep 1967 in St. Bernard's Cemetery, Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On the 1910 Census, Christopher and Mary were living in Atwood, PA, and his occupation was Teamster, Gas Company. They had been married 4 years, and were shown as the parents of two children, both still living, daughters Edna and Veda.

The 1912 birth certificate of daughter Olive Ruth Hoover shows his occupation as Liveryman. He was 27 when she was born, and the family was living in Plumville, Indiana County, PA.

On the 1920 census, the family was still in Indiana Co, PA, and his occupation was that of a farmer.

In 1930, he was still living in Indiana County, PA. His wife Sally had died four years previously, and he was the sole occupant of his household, working as a laborer at odd jobs. None of his seven children were listed in the home, the younger ones likely living with relatives?

In 1940 he had remarried, and he and his second wife Anna were living in Indiana County, with her two sons, George and Donald Borland, as well as a 3 year old daugther Susanne and 9 month old son, Clarence.

In 1950, and Anna May were still in Indiana County. His occupation was cattle dealer. He and Mary had two more children, Rose Gene (7) and James (2). Stepson Donald was still living in the home, working as a salesman at a retail gas station. Their was also a lodger, Thomas Rupert, age 64, sharing their home.

OBITUARY

Christopher C Hoover, of Indiana, died Friday, June 2, 1972 at his home in Indiana RD 4. He was born 3 Dec 1883 at Atwood, the son of Zenas H. and Elizabeth Rowley Hoover. He was married April 3, 1937 to Mrs. Anna May McLain.

He had been a member of the US Trotting Association, and was a retired livestock dealer.

Survived by daughters and sons, Mrs. Edna Martin, Duncansville, Mrs. Veda Tocci, San Antonio, Mrs. Ruth Tocci and Zenas H Hoover, both of Indiana, Mrs. Edward (Etta Mae) Yarkowsie, Pittsburgh, Richard C Hoover and Mrs. Ahrens (Kathleen) Clever, both of Boulder, Colo, Mrs. James (Suzanne) Barto, Cherry Tree, Clarence Ed Hoover, Indiana, Mrs. Robert (Rose) Lundburg, Akron, OH, James Hoover, Blairsvillr, also 27 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren.

Preceded in death by first wife, Mrs. Sally McSweeney Hoover, who died Dec. 8, 1926..

Interment Atwood Cemetery.

Published in the Indiana Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, June 3, 1972.

Christopher married Sally Edna McSwiney on 19 Jun 1906 in Indiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania. Sally (daughter of Dennis B. McSwiney and Frances Levinia Beck) was born about 1888 in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; died on 8 Dec 1926 in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; was buried in Atwood Cemetery, Atwood, Armstrong, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Obituary

Mrs. Sally Edna Hoover, McSweeney, wife of C. C. Hoover of Indiana [PA], died Tuesday morning at two-fifteen o'clock, age 37 years. She leaves these children: Edna, Veda, Ruth, Jean, Etta Mae, Richard and Cathleen.

Scan of Obituary, not referenced or dated, on Find A Grave (Memorial ID 251473759]

Her Indiana Marriage License listed her parents as Dennis and Frances L McSwiney.

Her Indiana Death Certificate shows her parents as Denis McSwany and Frances Beck. Information was CC Hoover, of Indiana, PA.

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Married:
Their 1906 Pennsylvania application for a marriage license lists the couple of Christopher Hoover and Sally E McSwiney, ages 22 and 18. He was a resident of Atwood, and she of Willet. Christopher was shown as a son of Zena H and Elizabeth Hoover, and Sally as a daughter of Dennis and Frances L. McSwiney.

Due to her age, Sally's mother, Frances gave her written consent. Christopher was listed as a Liveryman, and Sally as "at home."

Witnesses were William E Doran (the Justice of the Peace, who filed the license) and Susan A Trumble. They were married by the Rev. P.J. Howe, a Catholic Priest.

When their daughter Olive Ruth was born in 1912, she was shown as their fourth child, all still living. Apparently the third child, name and sex unknown, was born after the 1910 census, but died before the 1920 census.

Census records show a son born in 1916, but not other children listed with the family, though there are several other children listed in both her and her husband's obituaries?

Francesco married Maria Scavella. Maria (daughter of Vincenzo Pietro Scavella and Maria Antonio Dramis) was born in Aug 1833 in Italy; died on 13 Jan 1918 in Creekside, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; was buried on 15 Jan 1918 in Saint Bernard's Cemetery, Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her parents are shown as James Scavella and Mary Dramis, both born in Italy. Informant was Angelo Tocci of Creekside, PA. Her occupation was listed as Retired housekeeper.

She was living with her son, Angelo, and his family (along with her 42 year old son James) in Creekside, PA at the time of the 1910 Federal Census. She was shown as born in Italy, with both her parents also born in Italy, all who spoke Italian as their native tongue. She was listed as widowed, and the mother of two children, both still living. More children are linked to her on Family Search, so this should be verified through primary sources.

Louis married Rosa Teresa Iorio. Rosa was born about 1851 in Italy; died on 3 Mar 1936 in Indiana, Indiana, Pennsylvania; was buried in Calvary Cemetery, Punxsutawney, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1900 Census, in Cowanshannock, PA, lists him as a Farmer, married for 19 years, and indicates both of his parents were also born in Pennsylvania.

Obituary
From the Indiana Gazette, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Thursday, February 6, 1919

Death Calls Four Residents of the County

Z. H. Hoover, aged 58 years, died at this home on West Philadephia street, Wednesday morning at 4 o'clock. Death was caused by paralysis. Mr. Hoover was a well-known horse and cattle dealer in Armstrong county and also followed that occupation in Indiana county. He leaves his widow and these children: Mrs. J. M. Myers of Ambridge; J. R. Hoover of Apollo and Misses Etta and Elizabeth Hoover at home.Mr. Hoover was a conscientious member of the First United Presbyterian Church, the pastor of which, The Rev. Chalmers G Morrow will condut the funeral services at the Hoover home tomorrow evening. Interment will be made at Atwood Saturday morning.

Zenas married Elizabeth Ellen Roxan Rowley about 1881. Elizabeth (daughter of John Rowley and Mary Ann Bolvin) was born on 17 Dec 1860 in Hillsdale, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; died on 20 Jun 1959 in Rayburn Township, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania; was buried in Atwood Cemetery, Atwood, Armstrong, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The 1900 Census, in Cowanshannock, PA, shows she was married for 19 years, having given birth to 7 children, 6 of whom were still living, and indicates both of her parents were also born in Pennsylvania.

She was the head of household at the time the 1920 census was taken, as her husband had died in February 1919. She was living with two of her daughters, Etta and Elizabeth, plus three grandchildren, born to her daughter Mary Ina, who had died five years previously.

FindAGrave shows her as a daughter of John Rowley (1827-1905) and Mary Ann Bolvin (1825-1889), both buried in East Mahoning Cemetery, Purchase Line, Indiana County, PA.

Her Pennsylvania Death Certificate shows the same parents, and notes she was a widow. Her address at the time of her death was 510 N Seventh St, Apollo, PA. Informant was her son. John R. Hoover, of the same address.Parents are also listed as John Rowley and Mary Ann Bolvin.

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A photo of the military memorial marker on his Find A Grave memorial page shows he was a "Pvt Co 146 PA Inf, Civil War."

Dennis married Frances Levinia Beck about 1879 in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Frances (daughter of George Beck and Martha Jane Kinkead) was born on 9 May 1852 in North Mahoning Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; died on 23 Jul 1910 in Indiana County, Pennsylvania; was buried in Atwood Cemetery, Atwood, Armstrong, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Notes on Find A Grave list her as Frances Levina Speedy? McSwiney.

The Indiana Gazette

Mrs. Levinia McSwiney

Mrs. Levinia McSwiney, widow of the late Dennis McSwiney, of Washington Township, died at her late home Saturday evening, July 23, of complications of diseases. She was aged about 58 years. She is survived by the following children: Bryan, Martha, Harry, Vernie, Grace, Mabel and Arthur, at home, and Mrs. Sally Hoover, of Atwood. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. D.W Lacrone and interment was made in the Atwood cemetery. Mrs. McSwiney was notified last week of the fact that she was to receive about $2,000 back pension. The papers arrived from Pittsburgh the day before her death.