Leo Longo

1896 - 1928  (31 years)

• Name	Leo Longo
  Born	24 Oct 1896	Termini, Imerese, Sicily, Italy   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	1897	, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  Residence	1911	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [4]
  	Roman Catholic
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-190705
  Died	6 Jul 1928	Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3]
  Buried	Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I190705	Generations
  Last Modified	7 Nov 2024

  
  

  Father	Baldassare "Balthasar" Longo,   b. 10 Jun 1864, Termini, Imerese, Sicily, Italy ,   d. 11 Jul 1935, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Carolina Lamantie,   b. 14 Mar 1874, Termini, Imerese, Sicily, Italy ,   d. 16 Sep 1949, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F185688	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Leo Longo and his sister Rosy were here from Waterloo, brought us apresent of fruit candys etc. - I gave them a lemon from our tree, with abranch of about 6 leaves attached - they will place it in their show window,also gave them some apples and pears. ............ Wed. Nov. 1, 1911 Weather cold mornings warm and sunshine around noon, the first snow to cover the ground real good, started to snow at about 6 evening till 9 evening afterwards moonlight and cold. - morning worked at tiling - after dinner took up celery, Longos from Waterloo fetched 10 doz more celery at .50¢ a doz. - afterwards worked at tile again. - evenings was up town to see the sewer committee about the damages we had on the sewer-farm, but got there too late, they had gone home. Thurs. Nov. 2 Morning I Jake and Dad hauled manour on the old strawberry bed where we had potatoes on - going to put onions on next spring, then was up town before dinner - fetched stove pipes for the green-house furnice. After dinner finished hauling manour. - got another 6 doz. celery for Longos, then hauled 4 load of cattle shugar beets from sewer farm. Was to night school evenings, afterwards to Wolfard's for the furnace top. Afterwards was to the Star theatare, seen part of the play "My Uncle from Japan" - got home at eleven, put top on furnace - conected stove pipe and started fire for the first time this fall, got to bed at about two oclock in the morning. Wed. Feb. 7 weather morning snow flurries - not very cold - 12 above zero - decided it was warm enough to ship cabbage to Guelph, I went up to Ott's and phoned to Longos who was shipping it that I would bring a load up to the freight sheds, when I got up Mr. Longo was there - we put the cabbage in a little heated room, it will leave the following morning, Longo went with me back to the market, we got the weight of it from the clerk - it was 1000 lbs. at 2¢ a lb. - Longo paid me it in full $20.00 cash. I got home at 11 oclock forenoon. - temperature at noon 20 above zero - afternoon I was up - paid for manure at Livery Stable, also took some cabbage orders up town, and fetched tobacco stems at Blanksteins. I was at home and read evenings Diary of Gordon Christian Eby

  
  

• Sources

  [S366] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1911, Div. 42 Page 6. [S2555] News - ON, Waterloo, New Hamburg - New Hamburg Independent (1917 -, Obituary of Leo Longo - Jul 13 1928 pg 1. [S87] Cemetery - ON, Waterloo, Kitchener - Woodland CC#4510 Internet Link . [Photographic image of a man]/ Leo Longo/ Born Oct. 24 1896/ At TermIni, Imerese/ Sicily, Italy/ Died July 6, 1928 At Waterloo/ Requiescat In Pace. [S366] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1911, Div. 42 Page 7.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 24 Oct 1896 - Termini, Imerese, Sicily, Italy Immigration - 1897 - , Ontario, Canada Residence - Roman Catholic - 1911 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 6 Jul 1928 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth