Biography:

Maria Innocenza Procopio was born and raised in Gasperina, Italy. She married Salvatore Siciliano in Gasperina sometime around 1892. In 1905 she immigrated to the United States with three of her children to join her husband. While living in Philadelphia, she ran a boarding house at 505 Catherine Street and gave birth to three more children. In 1921 she moved to Camden, New Jersey with her family, where she ran a second boarding house.