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From: "Norby Family" <>
Subject: Re: Cox - Desimone
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:17:24 -0700


Found in CADI: 1940-94
Joseph A. Desimone, spouse ED, Santa Clara, 6/30/45, 45761
Joseph S. Desimone, Santa Clara, 12/9/1949, 98453
Jospeh Desimone, 555-16-6021, San Francisco, 10/11/1959, 106621
Joseph A. Desimone, 344-12-0176, Monterey, 12/9/1976, 158790
Joseph Desimone, spouse FP, 166-09-3549, Orange, 8/24/1982, 111510
Joseph Desimone, 550-52-7136, Los Angeles, 7/10/1989, 139928
Joseph P. Desimone, spouse LV, 569-09-9087, Riverside, 7/26/1984, 119269

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Nicol <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 5:44 PM
Subject: Cox - Desimone

Hi everyone, I'm new to the group.

I'm trying to find my wife's family links. Unfortunately her parents died
unexpectedly in the Teneriffe, Canary Islands Pan Am 747 disaster about 25
years
ago. She was relatively young at the time and had not asked many questions
about
her family history.

Her great grandfather was Joseph Desimone, born about 1825 in Sicily?,
Italy, died
about 1920. My wife recalls that he immigrated to CA in the mid 1800s, and
was
possibly involved in the late Gold Rush era in Calavaras County, Columbia.
She
doesn't know the name of her great grandmother, she may of been German
descent, so
we'd like to find marriage records if they married in CA. They had 12
children,
among them were Joseph, Josephine, Elsie (Rheams?, Modesto), and Madelyn
Louise.
Their youngest daughter, Madelyn Louise, my wife's grandmother, was born
about
1879 and died in 1975 in San Jose. We think Joseph had a small
produce/grocery
store in the San Jose area in the late 1800s to early 1900s. He may have had
a
produce ranch in the Willow Glen area. There is some info about a Desimone
Bicycle
Shop that one of his sons may have owned - supposedly the oldest bicycle
shop in
San Jose. The family called Joseph one of the true pioneers of San Jose.

Madelyn married Albert T. Cox who was born about 1871 in Missouri and died
about
1951 in San Jose, CA. They had 2 sons; Wilbur, born 20 Jan 1910, died 27
Mar 1977
and Albert, born about 1913. They lived in a small home on Fox Avenue in
San
Jose. My wife seems to recall her grandfather Cox worked for the railroad
in the
San Jose area. My wife recalls her grandmother talking about what it was
like to
experience the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Wilbur, my wife's father, married Irene LaNelle Richard in the mid 1940s and
they
had two children; Judith and James. Wilbur and LaNelle lived in the Willow
Glen
area until their deaths in 1977. Wilbur was also in the produce business, a
produce broker, and had his own private brand label of peaches - King's
Fancy.

That’s all my wife can recall. We would appreciate any help –
marriage/birth/death certificates, census records, obituaries, newspaper
ads,
land/mortgage records. Thank you for your help.

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