Saveria Carbone was born to Raffaele Carbone and Genoefa Lamattina in the village of Sitizano di Cosoleto,RC, Italy.There,she would marry Rock (Rocco) Fulco on May 16, 1886.Information on the 1910 USC recorded that she had given birth to 10 children and that 7 were living.Within 3 months of her youngest child's birth her husband, Rocco,emigrated to the United States in hopes of earning the money needed to also bring his family here for the opportunity to escape the grinding poverty and a class system in which the "contadini" (peasant farmers),were by far the largest and oppressed number.In this class the peasants, including children as young as 5 years old, were expected to work sun up to sun down to contribute to the family's sustenance.The great majority could never hope to own even the smallest parcel of land and were beholden to the landowners for whatever work was available.It would take the next decade before the entire family was reunited.Rock returned to Italy in 1910 to accompany Saveria and the children to the U.S.A. However,2 children were denied passage due to having eye infections,were sent back to their village and lived with their grandmothers the next 2 years. So parents and now 3 children made the long voyage from Italy, first to Glasgow, then across the Atlantic to Newfoundland and down the waterways between the Canadian and USA border finally entering the Port of Detroit aboard a ferry from Windsor, Canada on April 7,1910.Soon after this the 1910 USC would record them living at 1214 N. Jefferson St. in Bay City in a rented house which listed as occupants Rock and Saveria with 5 of their children and an additional six boarders.Saveria continued to work hard making a home in a strange, sometimes frightening land but she and the others always vehemently said they would never return to the life they left behind! As the children were marrying and starting their own families a great tragedy rained down upon them. Rock and Sarah's son, Dominic, was killed in action during World War I in France.A year later her husband,Rocco, was killed in an accident. Despite these tremendous loses,Saveria displayed the courage one would expect of someone used to the cruelties of life. She would remain close to her supportive children the rest of her life,most of which was spent living with her daughter Jennie and family and later with son Jim and family.She would never learn this "foreign" English language but was adventurous enough to have taken a couple of train trips to far away Tampa, Florida in the 1930's to visit her daughter Mary and family. This was accomplished by having a note with the itinerary pinned to her dress so that conductors and such would assist her if needed. She would remain involved with her large family and increasing numbers of grandchildren until her death at age 75.