The Snapshot Project

Mosellie Family

SYRIA/ITALY
Submitted by Weda Mosellie.
Picture of Weda’s parents on their wedding day, July 13, 1947.
Anthony and Mamie (Pullo) Mosellie photographed leaving Our Lady of Mt. Carmel R.C. Church in Roseto, Pennsylvania.
Roseto was primarily Italian at that time. Everyone married Italians, everyone except of course Mamie who had fallen in love with a Syrian. Her father, Frank Pullo, was very strict and never would have given his consent. Because Mosellie sounded Italian, Mamie told her father that Anthony WAS in fact talian. The lie worked. It was not until a year later when Mamie was pregnant that the truth came out but it was too late to stop the marriage.

ITALY
Maternal grandparents of Weda Mosellie.
Marie and Frank Pullo and their families emigrated from Roseto Val Fortorre, Italy, in 1901, to settle in the Italian sister city of Roseto, Pennsylvania. The couple married in 1908 and went on to have eight children. Marie died in childbirth, and Frank, who never remarried, raised the children on his own.

ITALY
Mosellie family portrait used at Ellis Island.
Left to right: Weda’s father, Anthony Mosellie; paternal grandmother, Weda Mosellie (for whom Weda was named); aunt, Antoinette Mosellie; and aunt, Mary Mosellie Shakal – all deceased.