Nicodemo and Raffaela
Dominick Belluchie
Dominick and Patsy Belluchie and Family
Dominick Charles and a twin brother were born on December 31, 1896
in Lake City. He was baptized on January 28, 1897 and it is assumed that
his twin died a short time after their birth as there is not a baptismal
certificate available for him. Dominick -vas named after the first
Bellucci child. Dominick worked on the homestead like all of the
children and when he and his brother Jim were just boys, they went with
their father to Thompson, Utah to work in the coal mines. Dominick also
worked as a blacksmith for Ray Greenwood in Delta and for the Springer's
in the logging camps. When Dominick was 32 years old, he asked Eunice
Elizabeth Stallings to marry him and they were wed on November 13, 1921
In Delta. Patsy, as she was known to everyone, Dominick and Louie did
some farming for John Peterson in Peach Valley and it was while they
were here that Angeline's twin daughters, Wilma and Wilda, lived with
them for several months before they were sent to school in Canyon City.
After the stint at farming, the two men decided to try their luck at
mining and they went to Iola (near Lake City) in 1931, While working in
Iola, Dominick suffered an appendicitis attack, He asked that he be
taken home to Delta, but he had waited to long for treatment and his
appendix ruptured. He died of peritonitis on June 29, 1931, just
thirty-seven days after the death of his mother. This was a very sad
time for the Family: Dominick was thirty-five.
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