Victoria and Dominic Catanetti, Appalachicola, Florida

From the May 9, 2019, Apalachicola Times "Ghosts rise at Chestnut Cemetery" David Adlerstein.

This was one of those occasions when people visit a cemetery and learn about some of the folks buried there.

Victoria Catanetti (played by Megan Lamb) was born Victoria Silvain Palermo in Sicily, Italy, in January 1833 and immigrated to the United States about 1852.  She married Dominic(k) Catanetti in 1865.

He was a sailor and ship's captain and in the 1860 census was listed as "Master of Vessel."  During the Civil War he was in the Confederate Navy, possibly on the CSS Spray.  (I have written quite a lot about this small ship.  Click on the CSS Spray label below.)   In 1900, he was bar pilot for Apalachicola Bay.

Victoria died on February 22, 1904, in Apalachicola.

--Old B-Runner