Ramiro Ribeiro 1938-1977

Ramiro Ribeiro was born in Marilia on 4 March 1938. According to records I found at Santo Antonio's vestry he was baptized as Romiro Ribeiro on 29 May 1938, having Jose dos Santos as godfather and Ana Amelia as godmother. Ramiro was known almost universally as Ramilo. Maybe because illiterate people would think that Ramiro was mispelt and decided to 'correct' what was actually right. So RAMILO it turned out to be. 

Ramilo's mother Joana Ribeiro eventually married Joaquim Pavão de Oliveira aka as Quincas, who was my grandmother's Albina Rosa de Jesus's brother. 

Albina Rosa de Jesus came from a large family in Sao Sebastião do Rio Bonito-RJ (now it is called Pentagna) and when she married Fernando Antonio Amorim, they moved to Ourinhos-SP in 1918, fleeing the Asian flu aka Spanish flu that had spread world-wide during the demobilization of troops that killed each other in Europe between 1914 and 1918.

Albina's baby sister Margarida and younger brother Quincas also made the trip to Ourinhos-SP and by 1933 everyone had re-located to Marilia where they lived in various places.

Quincas died on 11 August 1951, when he was only 43 years old and left Joana and Ramilo grieving. 

Ramilo was 13 years old then. Mother & son shared a wooden-house on Rua Lima e Costa, 1075, with Margarida and her de-facto husband Domiciano, a half-breed from Ceará.

I remember visiting our second aunt Margarida (who was really my father João's aunt) in her shack on Rua Lima e Costa and then go around into the back of the lot to visit Joana who lived 'parede-meia'. They were all very poor but very friendly. My Mother always took some gifts and we sat down on tia Margarida's double-bed to talk. Margarida was a really thin woman, smoked straw cigarettes and had a funny laughter which mingled with her constant cough. 

This was circa 1958 and Ramilo, who was 20 years old, was working as a shop assistant at Livraria Brazil, a great stationary place on Avenida Sampaio Vidal, just past Rua 9 de Julho, on the left-hand side of one going towards Paço Municipal (read further account below the photos).  

Ramiro Ribeiro at Saint Anthony's vestry in 1957. Fernando Guarda is the priest at the centre.

Ramiro Ribeiro as an altar-boy at Santo Antonio circa 1957.

altar boys leading the procession down Avenida Sampaio Vidal. 

Ramiro swinging the chacoal incense holder (turíbulo) - keeps on going ahead until they would reach Sao Bento's cathedral. 

Suddenly, in December 1960, when I was 11 years old, we left Marilia and moved to Sao Paulo. I never saw those extended-family relatives anymore. I visited Marilia in 1963, but there was no time to see everyone. 

Joana Ribeiro died in 1964. Two years later, on 30 April 1966, tia Margarida died in a hospital so that family nucleus made up of 4 people - Joana, Ramiro, Margarida & Domiciano - came to an end. 

Not long after Joana's death or even before she died, Ramiro found work at DER - Departamento de Estrada de Rodagem - a government agency and moved to Sao Paulo. I remember meeting Ramiro by mere chance at the lobby of Cine Ipiranga on a Sunday afternoon circa 1964 or 1965 when that area was still up-market. He was always friendly sporting a big smile. We did some small talk and I went my way.  

Actually, not long before Joana died she had adopted a boy they called Luiz Carlos and when Ramiro moved to Sao Paulo, he brought the boy along and raised him as his own son. From what I remember, Ramiro shared a place with Nercidio Silva, a friend of his from Marilia who also worked for DER. 

In the mid 1970s, I couldn't precise the year, Ramiro went missing. He wouldn't show up at his work, he wouldn't come home to the place in Osasco-SP, he shared with Nercidio and Luiz Carlos. 

After a week or so, Nercidio was notified by the Police to identify a body that had been found drowned in a river or stream. He asked my aunt Dulce Roza Amorim Coelho to go with him to the IML (Forensic Medicine Centre) in Osasco-SP. Dulce told me the body was bloated and in an advanced state of putrefaction. It was difficult to say whether it was Ramiro's body... Nercidio said that the green short was the same Ramiro wore the last time he'd seen him... and Dulce said she noticed that the body was in a certain position that she recognized as being Ramiro's typical body language. Even though they were not a 100% sure they thought it HAD to be Ramiro's body... And they must have been right because Ramiro never came back.

it's a tiny photo but one can see Ramiro croching on the left... at Mario Amorim's wedding at Santo Antonio's on 27 July 1958. The smiling boy in the foreground is my brother Fernando Amorim. 

here's Ramiro inside Santo Antonio's attending Mario Amorim's wedding to Edes Garbellini; the boy on the left is my brother Fernando Antonio Amorim; my Mother Yolanda is in the background holding Sandra Helena who was only 1 and a half year old. 

outside Santo Antonio's after Mario Amorim's wedding on 27 July 1958; João Pavão is standing on the right - wearing white trousers; the man in the back wearing hat is Virgilio Amorim who came all the way from Ourinhos-SP to see the wedding of his nephew; next to Virgilio is Domiciano who was married to Margarida Rosa de Jesus, my Grandmother's sister; the next man is Günther Karg, married to Antonia Amorim; crouching from left to right is Paulo Cesar de Oliveira also from Ourinhos-SP and João Amorim, my dearest father.  

Edes Garbellini kisses her father's hand while in the background Domiciano & Margarida Rosa de Jesus watch - 27 July 1958.

Joana Ribeiro, Ramiro Ribeiro & Joaquim Pavão aka Quincas circa 1940. 

Joaquim Pavão in the 1930s. One can but see his features were similar to his sister Albina. 

Nercidio aka Nelson & Ramiro aka Ramilo at Nelson's house in Marília-SP circa 1980. They both left Marilia together in the late 1960s to try a new life in São Paulo. They worked at some road building government company most of the time. After working for more than 10 years, Nelson decided to go back to Marilia where he married and set up home. Ramiro stayed back in São Paulo and probably had been drinking more than usual. 

Ramiro was still working at this road-construction company when he didn't show up to work anymore. After some time, the police found a dead body at Rio Pinheiros. My aunt Dulce Roza Amorim Coelho was summoned to recognize the body as being Ramiro's. I talked to her and she said she wasn't sure about the true identity of the cadaver because it was in an advanced state of putrefaction... but as the body's height was more or less the same as Ramiro everyone agreed that had been Ramiro's body. 

Luiz Carlos Ribeiro watches Maria Lucia Martins' antics at my grandmother's Albina Rosa de Jesus' 80th birthday party on 2nd August 1980.

clockwise from top Regina Celia Amorim, Luiz Carlos Ribeiro, Sandra Helena Amorim & Claudia Amorim.

Rua Campos Salles, 350 Marília-SP

my second-cousin Paulo Roberto Camargo, his sister Mariângela and their aunt Beatriz Scarpetti having my grandfather Giovanni Battista Darin's house in the background. The original wooden house was torn down circa 1934 and a brick house was built circa 1949.

Beatriz holds her niece Mariângela Camargo & her cousin Herminia Maria Batista; the boys are her nephew Paulo Roberto Camargo and cousin José Carlos Batista.

Paulo Roberto Camargo, Marco Giovanni Battista Da Rin Zoldan & Mariangela Camargo...

Beatriz Scarpetti resting on the stoop that leads to the causeway which connected my Grandfather's porch with the street gate. See the lamplight in the background. 

Paulo Roberto at the back yard of the house on Rua Campos Salles, 350. See the picket fence that divided my Grandfather's house from the house next door which was still made out of wood. 

In the backyard circa 1952: Rosa Darin, Angela Darin holds her grandson Paulo Roberto Camargo, Edson Scarpetti looks on from behind - between Paulo & Angela; Betty Scarpetti Camargo & Beatriz Scarpetti.

 Bia and some friends of hers... mind you, this is not Rua Campos Salles... 

Betty Scarpetti Camargo died on 10 November 2022, at 10:00 am. Her remains were buried on the same day at 5:00 pm. She was 90 years old. Betty was among the Darin-Scarpetti family who lived the most years. Maybe Salvatore Scarpetti, her paternal grandfather, lived longer than her.

Rua Campos Salles, 350 

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ROSA DARIN's religious articles

Rosa Darin (1915-1996) was a very religious lady. She was born in São José do Rio Pardo-SP and moved to Alto-Cafezal-Marília in November 1927 when she was only 12 years old. 

As the Darin Family always lived on the Alto Cafezal side of town, Rosa used to go to church at Santo Antonio's in its various phases. 

Here are some religious articles Rosa left when she died in 1996.

Prefeitura de Marilia

Prefeitura de Marilia on the corner of Rua 9 de Julho and Rua Sao Luiz. It was built in the early 1930s. My grandfather Giovanni Battista Da Rin Zoldan had a mixed-business shop named Casa Riopardense on the very spot which he had opened in early 1928. The business went bankrupt due to my Grand-dad's naïveté in believing he could sell by credit.  Customers would take merchandise and never paid back. Mr. Darin who was born in Belluno, Italy in 1871, arrived in Brazil in 1888 and lived most of his life as a farmer in São José do Rio Pardo-SP. He was not definetely cut out to be a businessman. 

He made a little capital and at the age of 56 he thought he'd start a new life as a small business man and moved to Alto-Cafezal-Marilia in November 1927. He'd should've known better than enter a new medium at such a late age. 

After that he worked as a book-keeping man for a few sound business men in Marilia and found means to support his large family for 32 years until his death in 1959.

Rua 9 de Julho with Paço Municipal on the left-hand side and Hotel Lider on the right looking toward Avenida Sampaio Vidal. 

On the left-hand side half-block, is Antonio Hideharu Nakagawa's Farmácia Marília; Hotel Líder takes almost the whole block on the right-hand side.

A Predilecta, lottery shop started in the late 1930s on the corner of rua 9 de Julho and rua 4 de Abril.

Claudio Amorim 1934 - 1993 (uncle)

Claudio Amorim, born on 6 December 1931, in Ourinhos-SP. 

Claudio Amorim's 'Carteira de Saúde' (Health book) issued on 11 June 1947; Claudio lived on Avenida Rio Claro, 69, Marília-SP; on the right Claudio's 'Carteira de Trabalho' (Worker's book) shows he started working at Hospital Maríla S.A. as a nurse-assistant on 1st January 1958, having left the job 3 months later on 31st March 1958. 

My Mother had 6 brothers & 5 sisters; my Father had 3 brothers & 3 sisters, so I ended up having 9 uncles and 8 aunts. Most married and had children too. I had a large family. From my Mother's side uncles & aunts were older people for she had been the baby daugher. On my Father's side they were younger for he was only the 2nd oldest. From all my 9 uncles, Claudio Amorim was # 7 and perhaps the one I had most contact with for a variety of reasons. 

1958 is the farthest back in time I remember uncle Claudio Amorim, when he lived with his wife Francisca and their 4 children in Lácio-SP, a town 8 km east of Marília. He probably lived there for rents must have been lower in the outskirts. One day I went to Lácio with him. He probably needed to fetch something at home and took his 9 year nephew along. It didn't take long for Claudio & his family to move back to Marília, to live on the small wooden house built on the backyard of aunt Dulce's brick house on Avenida Independência between rua Mato Grosso & rua Inconfidência. 

Claudio & his family must have lived in that small house for a few weeks for before 1958 was out they said goodbye and moved to São Paulo, where his brother Mario Amorim worked as a social worker at Hospital das Clinicas and managed to find Claudio employment at that hospital. 

I remember the day Claudio & family left Marília to move to São Paulo, 500 km east. It must have been September 1958, for Reinaldo, their fourth child had been born on 18 May 1958, was still a baby being carried in his mother's arms when they all walked past our house on Rua Mato Grosso, 393, on their way to Marília railway station to get the 7:00 o'clock evening train to São Paulo. Aunt Francisca waved goodbye to my Mother and us all who were at the balcony. 

It would be more than 2 years the next time I would see them again. My own family finally moved to São Paulo on 16 December 1960. My father with Dulce's husband José Coelho, had already moved there circa May 1960. Father & Zé Coelho rented a small place on Rua da Consolação where they set up a shoe repair shop while we waited in Marília until the school year was through for us to join them there. 

We went to live at Rua Simpatia, 42, in Vila Madalena. The very first week we were in the new house, Claudio showed up after work and took me with him to Rua Iperó, 11-A, where he lived with Francisca (29), Claudinho (8), Claudete (5), Jacinto (4) and Reinaldo (2). Francisca had yet another pregnancy while living in Vila Madalena but the baby-girl was still-born on 22nd November 1959.  

I still remember that particular day for Claudio and I walked up rua Simpatia all the way until we reached rua João Moura, turned left, went past rua Madalena and turned the next street which was rua Iperó and got to his place which was actually a bedroom with a double-bed, one bunkbed and a small kitchen. Claudio and family wouldn't live too much longer in Vila Madelena, for he had bought a lot in far-away Rio Pequeno where he planned to build a house so he didn't have to pay rent any more.

Vila Madalena-Pinheiros region: we lived on Rua Simpatia, 42; so to get to Uncle Claudio's place we went up rua Simpatia until we got to Rua João Moura, turned left, went past Rua Madalena, turned left the next street which was Rua Iperó, walked up some 100 metres and got to his little house. The irony of it all was that Uncle Mário (Claudio's older brother) lived at the beginning of Rua João Moura but on the other side of a great hill one could not cross. Much later circa 1964, aunt Dulce & family  moved up from Rua Girassol, next to São Paulo Cemetery to Rua Girassol corner with Rua Rodésia which was not far from Rua Iperó. 

5 March 1961 - I'm not sure the exact day I went to see Cecil B. de Mile's 'The Ten Commandments' at Cine Boulevard, but it was around this time. It could have been late January or early February. My uncle Claudio, who worked the night shift at the orthopaedic section of Hospital das Clínicas dropped by us and asked me if I wanted to go and see it. I jumped at the idea of going to the pictures in São Paulo, for I had just moved in from Marília-SP in late December 1960, and had never had the chance to visit any movie theatre in the big city. 

Little did I know that day will stay in my memory until the day I die. We took the Praça Ramos de Azevedo tram car # 28 in front of Padaria Novera at the corner of Rua Fradique Coutinho & Rua Aspicuelta and off we went downtown. I still looked at São Paulo's skyline with awe when we got off the tram at the final stop next to the imposing Theatro Municipal.  

I felt Uncle Claudio was proud to know how to move easily in such a tumultous city as São Paulo, having only been living here for 2 years. We walked down rua Conselheiro Crispiniano, crossed Largo do Paisandú into rua Antonio de Godoy where dazzling Cine Boulevard was, having been opened in 1958, so it was less than 3 years old. I think we went to the 12:30 session. It lasted 4 hours including an intermission and when we left the cinema at 4:30 pm I was walking on clouds bedazzled by the enormity of the spectacle.

From that day on I found out São Paulo had a world of wonders concentrated in the its centre. There were countless cinema houses on the axis of Avenida São João and Avenida Ipiranga. In Rio de Janeiro they called it 'Cinelândia' (Land of Cinema) but in São Paulo they didn't bother to find a name for it. Sooner than later, I made a point of watching at least one major movie a week there. It was a pleasure to walk downtown streets looking at cinema's boards announcing next attractions.   

Three months after I had seen 'The 10 Commandments', uncle Claudio had some news for me. He found me employment at a laboratory on on the 2nd floor of a medium-sized building on Rua Theodoro Sampaio, 2112. It was a small private lab owned by doctor Flávio da Silveira Miranda, a scion of a Paulista family who never hit the big time but liked to be independent. He needed a boy to wash glassware used in the preparations of tests of blood, urine & faeces. Not a very healthy job for a 12 year boy. I started working for Laboratório Universal on 28 June 1961. At first it was only  part-time, from 2:00 pm to 5:30 pm. I used to go to night school at Ginásio da Vila Madalena, on Rua Morás (it can be seen at the above map below at the extreme left. I worked part-time in 1961, 1962 and 1963. From 1964 to 1967 I worked full time.

Around 1961 & 1962, uncle Claudio used to show up at Laboratório for he was the one who collected blood for tests. He stayed there for a couple of hours and only in the morning shift so I hardly ever saw him. Claudio taught Luiz Antonio Signore, a tall boy 1 year older than I to collect blood so after 1963, Claudio was out of his morning job. But I don't think he cared much for he was in the process of building his house in Rio Pequeno, so he needed time to help bricklayers to put up the house. 

Sometime in 1962, Claudio took me on another memorable trip. This time we took a bus on Rua Paes Leme next to Largo de Pinheiros and went all the way to Rio Pequeno, some 12 km away. I remember the year for the song that was playing then was 'As folhas verdes de verão' (The green leaves of summer) sung by Wilma Bentivegna (written by Dimitri Tionkin for the sound-track of 'Alamo'). 

The house where they lived was made out of wood, there was a deep water well where they got the water they needed by pumping it with a bucket attached to a long rope. The area was bare of resources. Hardly a bakery around... most streets were not paved and one could see an extensive vegetable plantation owned by Japanese who were the best growers of lettuce, tomatoes, cabbages etc. There was a clean rivulet that crossed the main road called Estrada do Rio Pequeno, where the Japanese got the water to irrigate their plantation. 

Claudio (45) & his older brother João (53) at their Mother's 80th birthday on 2nd August 1977. 

Claudio Amorim (45) with sons Claudinei & Arnaldo.  

Claudio died on 24 November 1993, at a hospital in São Paulo. As his Mother Albina and Father Fernando, Claudio had hyper tension aka high blood pressure.

Alto Cafezal, Novembro 1927 / 1928

15  NOVEMBRO  1927

Aqui vai um resumo da saga da Familia Darin, que abandonou fazenda de sua propriedade na região de São José do Rio Pardo-SP para se aventurar num lugar novo chamado 'Alto Cafezal', depois conhecido como Marilia.

João Baptista Darin, imigrado de Belluno, Italia em 1888, era dono de uma fazenda próspera, mas com 57 anos e já cansado da lavoura estava com vontade de mudar de ramo. Justamente nesta época, circa 1926-1927 chegava-se notícias boas do oeste do estado de São Paulo, região chamada Alta Paulista, que estava sendo desmatada para o plantio de mais cafezais e a construção da Cia.Paulista de Estrada de Ferro. Diziam que era um novo Eldorado, onde as pessoas faziam fortuna rapidamente. O Velho Darin cometeu a loucura de abandonar o certo pelo duvidoso. Abandonou a região de São José do Rio Pardo, bem desenvolvida e com bastante infra-estrutura, para se aventurar no ‘mato’, sem nem mesmo ter visitado o lugar primeiro, para se certificar se era facto ou lenda. 

Em São José as casas eram de tijolos, ao passo que no Alto Cafezal (Marília) as casas eram feitas de madeira recentemente retiradas dos desmatamentos frenéticos que aconteciam a toque de caixa.  Além do mais o solo de Marília provou ser um ‘areião’, que se esgotou logo com a agricultura intensiva, ao passo que a região da Mogiana era de solo fértil. 

E a familia Darin emigrou novamente, depois de exatos 39 anos que tinham chegado da Europa.  João Baptista & Erminia, seu irmão Francesco, e mais uma penca de mais de 20 pessoas tomaram trens, onibus, jardineiras, carroças e vai-lá-se-saber quais outros modos de transportes, para chegarem no meio da selva, Marília, que não era nem município ainda.

Vamos à contagem das pessoas que abandonaram São José do Rio Pardo para fazerem a viagem à Marília no dia 15 de Novembro de 1927:

1. João Baptista Darin (56); 2. Ermínia Billò (49);  3. Rissieri Darin (28); 4. Elisa Surian (34); 5. Ivo João (5 meses);  6. Jacomo (27); 7. Mariquinha Corsini (22);  8. Nilza Darin (1 mês e 4 dias);  9. Maria Darin Dutra (25);  10. Gumercindo Dutra (33);  11. Moacyr Dutra (3 anos);  12. Gecely Dutra (1 ano); 13. Angela Darin (23);  14. Luiz Darin (22);  15. America Darin (20); 16. Octavio (18);  17. João Baptista Filho (16); 18. Nina (Olimpia) (14); 19. Rosa (12);  20. Yolanda (8);  21. Valdemar (6);  22. Tio Chico - Francesco Darin (5)];  23. Antonio-Tóni (23); 24. Trindade (22) estava grávida de 6 meses;  25. Luiza-Giggia (19); 26. Joanin (16).

Vinte e seis pessoas em retirada para irem morar no ‘final da linha’.  Aliás, a linha férrea da Cia.Paulista ainda não tinha chegado em Marília.  Alí era mato puro, algumas ruas abertas no meio da mata.  E os Darin foram viver numa casa de táboas na esquina da Rua Minas Geraes (futura rua 9 de Julho) e rua São Luiz. No mesmo local o Velho abriu uma loja de secos & molhados.

Ermínia Billò ficou totalmente isolada das irmãs Tonina e Maria, e da própria mãe Angela Nani.

Da antiga familia Darin que tinha vindo da Italia em 1888, só Marianna Darin ficou na Mogiana e seus dois irmãos se aventuraram no sertão.

Logicamente não se sabe como foram os primeiros dias dessa nova realidade, mas não devem ter sido muito agradáveis.  Havia muita insalubridade nesses ambientes de ‘desmatamento’, e a primeira vítima não custou tombar.  Mas antes da primeira morte, houve o primeiro nascimento em novas terras.

Nina (Olimpia Darina), Irina, Analia, Rosa Darin & Lila sentadas num tronco na Avenida Rio Branco - não há data, mas sabendo-se que Nina tinha 14 anos e Rosa Darin tinha 12 anos quando chegaram em Marília em Novembro de 1927, eu arriscaria que essa foto foi tirada circa 1929; Nina não teria mais que 16... aliás, nenhuma dessas meninas tem cara de ter mais que 16 anos.  

1928

No início de 1928, os 26 membros da familia se acomodavam na casa que o Nonno comprou na esquina das ruas São Luiz e Minas Geraes (futura rua 9 de Julho), que era considerado o centro de Marília-Alto Cafezal.  Havia a grande família do Nonno Darin (1), mais as pequenas familias do tio Chico (2), da Maria & Gumercindo (3), Rissieri & Elisa (4), Jacó & Mariquinha (5) e Tóni & Trindade (6).  Seis sub-grupos familiares vivendo sob um mesmo teto.

Logo, o casal Gumercindo & Maria mudou-se, com seus filhos Moacyr (3) e Gecely (1) para uma casa que ele próprio construiu lá distante, dentro do mato, mas na própria rua São Luiz. Maria Dutra estava grávida pela 3^ª vez. Zuleide conta que seu pai desmatou (na foice) uma data, num mato e construiu uma casa de pau-a-pique. Mais tarde, quando a prefeitura delineou a rua São Luiz para aquele local, a casa ficou ‘fora-de-esquadro’,  lá em cima, no morro, desnivelada com a rua, e o povo achava graça dizendo que parecia uma ‘casa de pombos’. Só bem mais tarde é que Gumercindo construiu aquele sobradinho na linha certa da rua São Luiz, onde morou até o final de sua vida.

Gumercindo trabalhou no comércio de couro, fazendo sapatões (?). Talvez venha daí o contacto com o húngaro Francisco Vidrik, que tinha uma casa de couro na mesma rua São Luiz, onde o Nonno Darin terminou seus dias trabalhando de guarda-livros.

Em Março de 1928 nasce o primeiro filho de Tóni e Trindade, também chamado Antonio Darin.

15 de Setembro de 1928 casa-se Angela Darin (24) com Jayme Scarpetti (20). Não se sabe a razão de tanta pressa para esse casamento, já que os noivos se conheciam há menos de um ano.

Jayme e seu pai  Salvatore Scarpetti (50) eram pioneiros no lugar, tendo chegado no Alto Cafezal em 1925, quando só havia algumas picadas por ali.  Provenientes de Limeira, trabalharam na derrubada da mata, construindo a primeira serraria do Alto Cafezal, existindo foto dela nos livros sobre a história de Marília. Julgando que taboas de madeira era a matéria-prima para fabricação de todas as casas, inclusive edifícios públicos e hoteis, os Scarpetti deviam estar muito bem monetariamente. 

Alto Cafezal-Marília era um lugar com maioria esmagadora de homens, pois eles se aventuravam por lá sem suas esposas e filhos, para só depois de se assentarem, mandarem vir as cônjuges e a prole.  Talvez, porisso Jayme tenha sido tão rápido em casar com uma das Darin, já que mulher jovem era artigo raro por aquelas bandas.  Jayme tirou a sorte grande quando casou-se com Angela Darin. 

20 Setembro 1928 morre Francesco Darin, o querido ‘tio Chico’, as 6:00 horas, de colapso cardíaco, atestado pelo Dr. José Perri, sendo declarante João Baptista Darin, segundo documento da prefeitura de Marília.  Cinco dias depois do casamento de Angela Darin há o primeiro funeral na familia em terras marilienses.  Tio Chico é enterrado no Cemitério da Saudade, uma das primeiras sepulturas, alí perto da entrada.  Mais tarde, com a construção do muro e alargamento, seu túmulo foi removido e os ossos lançados no ossário coletivo.

13 Novembro 1928 nasce Zuleide Dutra, 3^ª criança de Maria & Gumercindo Dutra. 

Marilia ainda não era comarca, e para registrar a menina, Gumercindo teria que ir a Assis; então ele resolveu esperar um pouco mais e registrar Zuleide em São José do Rio Pardo, pois ele teria que ir até a Mogiana para tratar da venda da fazenda do Nonno.  Eram negócios ainda pendentes desde a retirada deles da região, em 15 de Novembro de 1927, exatamente um ano antes.

Nota-se que Gumercindo funcionava como ‘mão-direita’ (lugar-tenente) do Velho Darin, que preferia que o genro tratasse de seus assuntos financeiros, invés dos próprios filhos.  Parece que havia um bom entendimento entre genro e sogro. 

1929

Em Janeiro de 1929 nasce a terceira criança de Rissieri & Elisa, a linda Lilia Therezinha, talvez homenagem à Therezinha de Liseux, que tinha sido canonizada em Roma 4 anos anos (1925).

Fevereiro de 1929 casa-se America (21) com Deoclydes Carlos Nogueira (21).

Não sabe-se muito sobre o casamento de America, apenas 5 meses depois de Angela. Eu ouvi dizer que Erminia Billò não queria que a filha se casasse com Deoclydes, pois ele ‘tinha amante’.  Na verdade, America casou-se grávida, pois Milton, seu primeiro filho, nasce no início de Novembro, 7 meses depois do casamento.  Não sei a profissão de Deoclydes nesses tempos;  mais tarde ele se tornou motorista de caminhão.  Não sei a proveniencia de Deoclydes tampouco.

4 de Abril de 1929 – Marília se emancipa e torna-se município.

28 de Setembro de 1929 nasce Ecidyr Darin, que será mais conhecido como Cidir; terceira criança de Jacomo & Mariquinha.  Ecidyr foi registrado no dia 14 de Outubro de 1929.

29 Setembro 1929 morre Antonio Darin Filho, com 19 meses, filhinho do Tóni.  No atestado de óbito diz:  “morto às 3 horas de 29 Outubro 1929, filho de Antonio Darin, profissão: lavrador e Trindade Alcaide Darin, prendas domésticas, tendo sido declarante Luiz Darin e o Atestado de óbito firmado por Dr. Coriolano Carvalho, que deu como causa mortis Dispepsia Crônica, sendo enterrado no Cemitério de Marilia, quadra 16, chapa 84.”

Assim era Marília... no dia 28 de Setembro nasceu o Cydir e no dia seguinte morreu o Toninho... um verdadeiro inferno tropical.

25 Outubro 1929 morre a menina Lilia Therezinha, com apenas 9 meses de idade.  No livro está: Lilia faleceu as 13 horas. Foi declarante João Baptista Darin, sendo o atestado de óbito firmado pelo dr. José Sampaio, sendo enterrada no Cemitério de Marília, Quadra 16, chapa 75.

5 de Novembro de 1929 nasce Milton Carlos Nogueira, 1^º filho de America Darin e Euclides Carlos Nogueira.

Cemitério da Saudade em foto dos anos 1930s, antes da construção do muro de tijolos. Ai foram enterrados os corpos do tio Francesco Darin (20 Setembro 1928), do filho do primo Toni Darin, Antonio Darin Filho (29 Setembro 1929) e da prima Lilia Therezinha (25 Outubro 1929). Depois de 3 mortes em apenas 2 anos, parte da familia Darin, apavorada, voltou para a região de São José do Rio Pardo. A sepultura dos Darin ficava perto do portão principal, que aparece prominente na foto. Nos anos 1940s a Prefeitura construiu um muro de tijolos e as sepulturas proximas da cerca e da entrada foram 'desapropriadas' e os restos mortais jogados em vala comum, que se denominou de 'cruzeiro'. 

1930 

Rissieri & Elisa &  Primos Darin retornam a São José do Rio Pardo em 1930 

A coisa estava ruim entre os Darin. Elisa, inconformada da perda de mais um filho, dessa vez sua Lilia Therezinha, temia pela segurança do pequeno Ivo João (3), já que em Marília se morria só de tomar água não fervida.  Elisa arranjou uma maneira de ir embora daquele lugar insalubre e começou a preparar a viagem, já que tinha cadeira como professora do Grupo Escolar de São José.

Os primos Tóni, Giggia e Joanin muito tristes por terem perdido o pai logo depois da chegada a esse lugar estranho, aproveitaram a ‘carona’ e voltaram à região da Mogiana. Concluíram que a melhor saída era voltar para São José do Rio Pardo, e lá se foram.

Não se sabe a data exata de quando foram embora, mas foram.  Rissieri nunca mais voltou ao seio da família, e os primos Tóni, Giggia e Joanin também se desgarraram do resto dos Darin.  E aí os laços se perderam.

A turma que voltou para São José do Rio Pardo nos primeiros dias de 1930 são:  1. Rissieri; 2. Elisa; 3. Ivo; 4. Tóni; 5. Trindade; 6. Giggia; 7. Joanin.

Luiza (Giggia) Darin

Nos anos 1990 eu tentei achar esses primos, mas eles já deviam estar mortos.  Angelina Corsini disse à Thereza Favero (neta de Marianna Darin) que Luiza (Giggia) Darin tinha morrido nos anos 90, mas tinha ainda duas filhas, Nilza e Cleide morando em Mocóca-SP e outra (Elza) em São José do Rio Pardo-SP.  Giggia teve um filho de nome Roque, que vivia em São Paulo. Giggia casou-se com Anselmo Ludovic; informação de Angelina Corsini,  irmã mais nova da tia Mariquinha Corsini, que eu visitei algumas vezes nos anos 1990.  Angelina faleceu em 1º Maio 1993. 

Giggia era muito querida entre as primas.  Yolanda diz que ela era bordadeira de ‘mão-cheia’.

Joanin Darin

Irmão mais novo de Tóni & Giggia, tb. era muito querido entre os primos.  Yolanda diz que Joanin era um ‘gozador’ e gostava da pinga tb., embora essa ultima informação não pode ter sido dada por Yolanda, pois Joanin tinha 18 anos (a idade do tio João Darin), quando voltaram para São José.  E pelo que se saiba, era muito difícil esses dois grupos se visitarem devido aos troncos ferroviários de então serem totalmente diferentes.  Os únicos tios que visitaram São José novamente foram o Jácomo, pois seu sogro Dante ainda morava lá, e Valdemar, o caçula, que durante sua fase atlética de corredor-amador visitou a região da Mogiana.

Joanin, digo João Baptista Darin Sobrinho, nascido em 20 Outubro 1911, casou-se com Gertrudes Lucas (não há mais informação que isso) e morreu em 5 Dezembro 1980, em Itobi, com 69 anos. 

E aqui ficam todas as informações que temos sobre esse ramo da familia Darin, que voltou para as origens de São José, tendo tido os laços de amizade desfeitos.

Saint Anthony Chapel on top of the hill that would become Avenida Santo Antonio a few years later. It was 1928, the same year Cia Paulista de Estrada de Ferro arrived with its railways...

Brand-new railway station just built in 1928. 

COELHO Family in Marilia-SP early 1960

back row: standing from left to right: João Egas, Mario Alves, Antonio Coelho, Dulce (Antonio's wife), Alice holding her daughter Maria do Carmo, Arlete (?), Marcolino, Pedro, José Coelho,

2nd row: (sitting down) Ana Coelho Egas with Angela with Junior & Marco: Edwiges Coelho Alves, João Marcolino Coelho, Rosa Quitéria da Conceição, Cristina Coelho, ?,  ... Luzia Coelho with ..., Dulce Roza with Paulo Cesar

front row: Aline, Maria Cristina (Ana Coelho's daughter), Roberto (Antonio's son) Dulcinéia, Celso Silverio & Gabriel Marcolino.