...the CHECCA forest.....
the oldest trees we could find would
have been planted in the  1860's...

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As near as we can determine, Pietro & Rose would have been born sometime in the late 1850's or early 1860's in Italy. We don't know if there were any brothers or sister yet, athough its likely, since there are several Checca's in the Italian Phone Book, and there are several Social Security records indicating Checca's born in the late 1800's who are most likely cousins of the six brothers!  Together they had 6 sons, Cisberto, Luigi, Lorenzo, Marion, Filomeno and Pasquale