Antonio Cesario and Catherine Capeci Cesario had eight children together – Santo Cesario (died at birth), John Derick Cesario, Frank Cesario, Santo Cesario, Teresa Cesario Barbero, Josephine Cesario O’Neill, Lucy Cesario Sapione, and Sister Carmella Cesario (who was a nun for the Salesian Sisters for 65 years.) Antonio Cesario had come to the United States when he was 9 years old. He worked on the Boston-Westchester Railroad as a water boy. He was a self-made man with no formal education.
Antonio had owned property in Port Chester, Rye, and Greenwich; and streets were named after the family -- “Cesario Place”, “John Street”, and “Lucy Street.”
Catherine Capeci Cesario died from the plague during WWI, around 1919.
Wanda and Jack were infatuated with movie stars. Wanda adopted the name of Blanche for her middle name, and John adopted the name of Derick as his middle name, because of their infatuation. (Derick was after John Drew Barrymore, instead of Drew it was Derick.) Back in 1934, Wanda dyed her hair blonde like the movie star Jean Harlow. She didn’t tell her husband Jack. She walked down South Main Street in Port Chester, heading towards North Main. Not recognizing his own wife, Jack tried to pick Wanda up. She was ticked off, so she hit him with her pocketbook.
Wanda would travel to Washington D. C. to visit Helen in the thirties. At that time it was a ten hour trip compared to 4-5 hours today. First, she had to travel by ferry from NJ over the Delaware River and then a very long trip through the city of Baltimore along Route 1. Mush can remember the women washing the marble steps as they passed through.
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