When members of Westerly’s extended Urso family gather next month for their first large-scale family reunion in four decades, they’ll pay tribute to the two people who made it all possible — their ancestors Natale Urso and Mariantonia Algiere. Natale, a farmer, was born in Acri, Italy, in December 1864. He was the youngest of Santo Urso and Santa Abbruzzese Urso’s 11 children.
Mariantonia, who was born in Acri in May 1870, was the oldest of Tommaso Algiere and Aurelia Caravetta Algiere’s 11 children. The Ursos, who were married in Acri in 1891, had nine children: Angelo, Santo Pasquale — who died in Acri in 1900 at age 6 — Louis, Maria Annunziata, Michele, Giuseppe, Santo, Vincenzo, and Rosa.
