left her home in Castelvero d'Asti, Italy, and began her journey to her new home,
her new country and her new life. On New Year's Eve she arrived at Ellis Island
to reunite with her husband and eldest son in America. Four years later
she gave birth to baby John. In 1920 the family moved into their newly built home
on a farm in what was then Clayville, Cumberland County, in southern New Jersey.
One of the young men who started his new life on that New Year's Eve
almost a hundred years ago became my grandfather. I have many happy memories
from times on the farm the family called their own.
I would like to commend the research of the late Elizabeth Gardner Navone,
whose real-time documentation has preserved much of the detail of the family's Italian history.
I gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Pat and Alan Navone
who, by sharing Aunt Elizabeth's work, have made much of this page possible.
I would like to credit and thank Dolores Langley Solberg
for her diligent work in helping to reweave the Navone clan stories.
I would like to thank all the Navone family members for their contributions,
for many historical and personal details,
and for answering endless questions.
and for the forebears of Francesco Navone and Martine Pastrone.
If you have information about the Navone family of Piemonte, Italy or South Jersey,
please click the book.
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Updated 15 November 2001
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