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retained ownership of the house for the next 27 years. It appears the Ashes rented the property from <br />the 1910s-1930s until Mary's death in 1934, leaving the house to her sons. In 1936, her children <br />transferred ownership to their father, Thomas Ashe until he sold the property to Victor and Mary Petrelli <br />in 1938. Obituary notices note that Mary Ashe was active in the Methodist Church, Eastern Star, and <br />Women's Christian Temperence Union, but it does not appear that she ever lived in Louisville again after <br />1911. <br />Petrelli Family Ownership, 1938-1982 <br />Victor Petrelli and Mary Fallone Petrelli purchased 1016 Main in 1938. Victor Petrelli (1881-978) was <br />born in Italy and came to the US in 1910. Mary Fallone (1898-1948), also of Italian descent, was born in <br />New Jersey. She married Victor in 1915 when she was 17 years old. It appears that Victor and Mary <br />either met in Italy or returned to Italy for their wedding and lived there for the first few years of their <br />marriage. Their eldest two sons, Eugene (1915-1995) and Emelio (1919-1965) were born in Italy. By <br />1920, the Petrellis had returned to the US and were living in Wyoming where Victor worked at a garage <br />and their third son, Alfred (1922-1993) was born. They moved to Louisville in 1929 where Victor and his <br />oldest son, Eugene, found work at the Louisville Lafayette Coal Company. Mary and Victor's two younger <br />sons, Alfred and Joseph (1932-2002) would have grown up at 1016 Main and attended Louisville schools. <br />1947 Louisville Boys Baseball team at Miners Field. <br />Joe Petrelli is the first boy from the left in the back row. <br />During World War II, Victor worked as a loader at the Centennial Mine and their son Emelio joined the <br />Army. In 1943, Emelio Petrelli was awarded the Soldier's Medal for clearing mine fields in Guadalcanal. <br />Mary Petrelli died in 1948. Victor continued to live at 1016 Main and advertisements in the Louisville <br />Times over the next decade show that he engaged in numerous enterprises including selling fryer rabbits <br />