Frances and Filomena

After finding Ramona Oropeza in the newly digitized California records, I was able to track down what happened to her other two daughters who were placed in the Los Angeles Orphan Asylum in 1889 and 1892. Francesca Campuzano appears as Frances Giovanetti in the 1900 US Census living in the household of Aladino Giovanetti and her mother Ramona in Los Angeles. Her sister Filomena was also in the house. I went back through the City Directories for Los Angeles, and found Frances in the 1901 City Directory as Frances Campuzano. She was living in the home of her mother, listed as R. Giovanitti at 421 N. Main Street. Her father Frank was listed as the manager of the Mexican Philharmonic Band.

Ancestry. 1901 Los Angeles City Directory.

I haven't yet found Frances in other city directories, but I did find a death notice for her in 1960 which mentions her mother and siblings.

LA Times, 30 Dec 1960.

The death notice for Frances pointed me to an earlier one for her sister Filomena, who died in March 1953 as Filomena Vosberg. 

LA Times, 3 March 1953.

She went by Filomena Sepulveda, and in 1911 she challenged the estate of Aurelio W. Sepulveda claiming to be his daughter. More on this to follow. I don't have enough information to tell if her mother Ramona had a relationship with Sepulveda in 1886. 

Filomena married Charles N. Vosburg on 27 July 1907. Their marriage certificate lists Filomena's father as Aurelio Sepulveda and her mother as Raymunda Orpega. It makes me wonder who filled out the certificate, and what Filomena may have been told. Clearly both of her sisters Isidora and Frances knew their father was Frank Campuzano. But maybe that's why Isidora and Frances went to the Orphan Asylum in 1889, and Filomena went separately in 1892. Perhaps the children had to reach a certain age to do there.

FamilySearch. 27 July 1907.

In Charles' WWI Draft Registration Card, he listed their address as 1212 1/2 Lemon Street, essentially the same address where Aladino Giovanetti and Ramona were living in the 1900 US Census.

It would be interesting to see if any of Filomena's descendants take an AncestryDNA test and show connections to the Campuzano family.