NameVANONI, Edoardo Battista Vito 

Birth22 Nov 1874, Aurigeno, Switzerland
Death28 Dec 1959, St. Helena, California
Burial31 Dec 1959, Occidental Druid’s Cemetary
ReligionCatholic
Notes for Edoardo Battista Vito VANONI
Ed worked on the Andrew P. Gaver ranch (adjoining the Morelli ranch) after coming to the USA in 1891 (from the USA census of 1900). Po Gaver (Andrew’s son) told me that, as teenagers, he and Ed were racing on the ranch with a horse-drawn wagon. They were going too fast around a curve in the road, and the wagon tipped over. Neither was seriously hurt. Records from Ellis Island show that Ed went back to Switzerland in about 1910 and returned to the USA on May 9, 1911. He declared that he was on his way to the Pozzi ranch in Santa Rosa, California. Marianna Vanoni Pozzi was Edoardo’s oldest sister.
During their final years, Ed & Emilio (his twin brother) lived with Jim Pozzi (their nephew) in Calistoga.