Hyner Cemetary

Remembering the Dearly Departed at Hyner Cemetery

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HYNER CEMETERY WHERE ITALIAN IMMIGRANTSFROM ITALY TO SUNNYSIDE WERE BURIED

The following information of Italian deaths are substantiated and found beginning with files of Ernesto Milani. Four deaths occurred on the ship Chateau Iquem in November 1895 and buried at sea.

MARIANO FOLCHI - 11

ALFONSO FOLCHI - 12

ADA FOLCHI - 3

JOSEPH LIONETTO - 3

Pray for Us!

HYNER CEMETERY: A TRIBUTE TO THE FAITHFUL

At Hyner, a portion of Sunnyside Plantation, owned by Austin Corbin, over 125 Italian immigrants died and were buried in the first year at its plantation cemetery, named Hyner. Many who are interred here died of malaria.

Sadly, there are only a handful of stones left, most of them badly damaged.

It is sacred to the memory of their descendants that all those Italians who left native Italy to come to America and settle in Sunnyside, Arkansas to eventually die in the Lord from beginning in the year 1896 and from whom we have received the gift of faith that we record the known deaths and hope to find or hear of more.

In memory of the unknown child of Iedela & Antonio Reginelli

KNOWN ITALIANS BURIED @ HYNER IN THE EARLY YEARS
1895-1897- ETC.

Documentation by Oldrini, chief agent at Ellis Island to Ambassador Fava, on March 15,1897 reported in the first year of 1896 there had been 25 births and 23 deaths (10 adults and 13 infants and children.
Adding to the above, the following list of 1897 deaths was found by Dr. Edward Stibili in the archives of the Italian Foreign Ministry, Vatican archives and files from the archives of the diocese of Little Rock.

DEATHS OCCURRED IN THE COLONY OF SUNNYSIDE - ELENCO MORTI ANNO -1897 (1897 LIST OF DEATHS)

NAME:

ROSA CINGOLANI

G. B. ASNICAR

GIUSEPPE BRUNINI

PIETRO BADIALI

CORTESINA BADIALI

ROSA CINGOLANI

GIUSEPPE CAMPAGNIA

SANTO CEOLA

GIOVANNI DELPIEDIO

APOLLONIA DEGLI ANTONI

ADOLFO SLIVI

CAROLINA BANCHETTI

ANNUNCIATA BERNARDINI

MARIA SORENZINI

ROSA MATTEUCCI

LUIGIA MASCAGNI

ANTONIA PIRONDELLI

ANGELO PIAZZA

MARIA PIAZZA

ALMA PARENTI

GIOVANNI SBANATTO

LUIGI FARINI

ADULTS

63 van colpi apoplia

59 asma

45

70

39

59

71

37 polmonite

50

42 Aics

66

68

3 comph cuinem

28

33

62 MARITO

62 MOGLIE

13 DIED

65

64

PLACE:

SUNNYSIDE

HYNER

HEBRON

COTTONWOOD

SUNNYSIDE

HEBRON

SUNNYSIDE

HEBRON

FAWNWOOD

SUNNYSIDE

FAWNWOOD

SUNNYSIDE

HYNER

@ LITTLE ROCK

FAWNWOOD

NAME:

AUGUSTO BRUNETTI

RUGGERO BRACCI

LAURA BRUNI

PIETRO CURSI

AUGUSTO GREGANTI

ANNUNCIATO GENTILINI

ATTILIO LOVATO

LUIGI MALATESTA

LUCIANO MATTEUCCO

ESTER MASOTTI

MARIA PIAZZA

ANGELO PENZO

ESTER ANGELETTI

CHILDREN:

3

2

6

2

7

3

1

7

3

16

PLACE:

HEBRON

SUNNYSIDE

COTTONWO0D

FAWNWOOD

HYNER

SUNNYSIDE

HYNER

SUNNYSIDE

The total deaths of that year amounted to 53. As this list only contains 34, we believe (19) must be infants born here and died afterward of which I have no record. Signed: Victor Alpini

In November of 1897, Father Bandini submitted a report that there were 16 additional deaths on Sunnyside thus the list buried came to 72.

OTHERS:

PIETRO SPACCARELLI, FATHER, Born: February 24, 1856,Died: October 4, 1898
FILOMINA CHIARA SPACCARELLI, Born: August 8, 1853, Died: March 20, 1899-S/S
PIETRO SPACCARELLI, Born: May 15, 1899, Died: August 20, 1900, Sunnyside
DIONISIO PIANALTO, Born: ? Died: 1896 – Killed by Falling Tree, Sunnyside
CATHERINE PENZO PIANALTO, Born: July, 7, 1860, Died: 1896 – Died in Childbirth S/S
Two (2) STILLBORN INFANTS (DIED 1896) Sunnyside

KNOWN Italians buried in early years on Sunnyside at Hyner from bits of gravestones and markers found along with those provided to Libby Borgognoni, church historian, from their descendants are as follows:

IEDELA ARMALUCCI REGINELLI, 1st wife of Antonio Reginelli, b. 1878, Died 1902
ANTONIO REGINELLI, b. 1842, d. 1902 died from gangrene by burns.
VICARI, ALBINA, b. 3/17/1876, d. Unknown
Unknown, Unknown, b. Unknown, d. Unknown
……..gon….., Unknown, b. Unknown, d. Dec. ?
MENG…..ELVIRA, b. Jan 1, ?, d. Aug 20?
MALATESTA, CELESTA, died in 1897
MALATESTA, SON, died in 1897
PIETRO CASALI, CHILD of Fermo and Olga Olivi Casali
DOMINIC CASALI, CHILD of Fermo and Olga Olivi Casali
GIUSEPPE ZUCCONI D. 1897
ALESSANDRA SPANEVELLO died giving birth Aug 1897- Married 10-12-1896
PAOLO LORENZINI, b. 1866, d. 1897
FIORE MAZZONI b. died an infant in 1910
ANGELO PIAZZA died between 1895 and 1900

Mary Grace Quakenbos’ report:

during Sunnyside investigation wrote the five (5) following she had witnessed.

INFANT GIORGINI DIED AT BIRTH IN 1905
INFANT GIORGINI DIED AT BIRTH IN 1907
UNKNOWN (AND 2 OTHERS)
UNKNOWN
UNKNOWN
INFANT DILUCA DIED IN 1904
INFANT CASAVECCHIA b. 1903, d. 1904

STANISLAO IACUSSI b. ? , d. 1/06/1904
GINO BAIONI b. 5/02/1902, d. ?/17/1904
GIUSTINO BELVEDERESI, age 47, died 1905
MARIA MENGONI d. 11/22/1898
RUGGERO BRACCI age 2 d. 2/15/1897
CLARA GRASSI, died of yellow fever (birth and death unknown)

Should anyone reading this list of known deaths at Sunnyside have any relatives that you know or have been told of please contact Libby Borgognoni, 870-265-1457 so they may be added to the current list.