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PRIVATE
GIUSEPPE MACCARONE was born on November 8, 1893 in
Fiumefreddo,
in the province of Catania on the Italian island of Sicily.
The
community gets its name from the Fiumefreddo River. The word "fiumefreddo"
means literally "cold river", a reference to the fact that the
river is fed by snow melts from Mount Etna. Fiumefreddo is near the
major Etna tourist centres. Il
Castello degli Schiavi in Fiumefreddo is known for being in the Godfather trilogy
as the house where many scenes were shot, one of the most famous being
in The Godfather Part I when Apollonia was murdered.
Giuseppe
Maccarone, or possibly Macciarone or Maccaroni, was working as a laborer at the
Campbell Soup Company plant in Camden when he registered for the draft
on June 5, 1917. He was then living at 324
Stevens
Street, and was sending money back to Italy to help his parents and
sister. He was inducted into the United States Army on July 9, 1918 at
Camden, and sent to Camp Humphreys, Virginia, where he was assigned to
the 5th Engineer Training Regiment. On October 31, 1918 he was
transferred to Company B, 4th Engineer Training Regiment. It was at Camp
Humphreys where Private Maccarone fell victim to the Spanish flu
pandemic. The illness took hold in his lungs, and Private Maccarone died
of pneumonia on December 31, 1918. Private
Maccarone was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington,
Virginia. His mother, living in Sicily, was notified of his passing.
It
is possible that Giuseppe Maccarone may have been the brother of Angelo
Maccarone (or Maccaroni), who farmed in Winslow Township, New Jersey in
the 1920s and 1930s.
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