My husband's great Granmother Adelgisa Pivirotto came through Ellis Island in 1909. She stated she was from Vodo, Italy, and her father was Giavonni. She also stated she was meeting her "cousin", Guiseppe Bianchet, in Irvin Penn. She met him in Pennsylvania and got married two days later.
While pregnant with their third chld, Guiseppe was murdered with an axe in front of the whole family while on a picnic. Really! Adelgisa (now called Elsie) fled to Raritan, Somerset, New Jersey to have the child (My husband's grandmother). We don't know who she stayed with, and I don't know how long she was there. Eventually she was remarried, to Dominic Beseggio, and moved back to the coal mines of Penn.
An old document said that she had a sister, Marion, who's married name was Perantoni. I have no more information on her or her family.
If anyone can help me connect with this Pivirotto line, on know more about New Jersey residents from di Cadore region, I'd love it!