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My great grandfather Peter Dema was born in Naples, which is in southern Italy.
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When he was almost ten he immigrated to America, arriving at Ellis Island on a boat.
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By the time he was seventeen he got a job as a Longshoreman which is someone that unloads ships.
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By the time he was eighteen he married Irene Dema who was sixteen.
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Just shortly after their marrige they had three children, a daughter and two sons
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His wife Irene dies.
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He gets re-married ti Helen Dema who he does not have any children with.
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My grandfather James Dema was drafted into World War 2, it was the end of the war.
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My Grandfather married my grandmother, and they had five children one being my father.
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My great grandfather dies but lived a long life up to eighty six years old, and is currently buried in Baltimore.
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I was Born