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In 1918, Frank Scarpella conveyed his ownership in 545 Jefferson to his son Thomas Scarpella. Thomas and his wife, Giovina Palizzi Scarpella, then made 545 Jefferson their home. They are listed in Louisville directories as residing at 545 Jefferson in 1918 and in the 1920s, and they appear in the correct location in the 1920 census. Thomas Scarpella (1889-1953) was born in Italy and came to the U.S. and to Louisville with his parents as a young child. Giovina "Jennie" (1895-1979) was also born in Italy and she traveled by herself at the age of 18 in 1913 to join her sister in the Denver area. Thomas and Giovina married in 1915. Thomas worked as a coal miner in Louisville. Their children who they raised while living at 545 Jefferson were Frank, Pasquale, Charles, Carmen, and Dorothy. Hioco Family Ownership, 1930-1965 In 1930, Thomas Scarpella sold 545 Jefferson to Camille and Helen Hioco. Camille Hioco (1873-1955) was born in Belgium, a few miles from the border with France. He married Helen Planchier Hioco (1873-1969), who was born in France, in about 1899. They lived in a coal mining area of northern France from which most of Louisville's French residents came. They came to the U.S. with their son Camille Jr., in 1926, joining their daughter Marie Vanderstraten, who had already come to Louisville in 1922, and their son Jules George, who immigrated in 1925. (Another daughter, Julia Creteur, would follow the Hioco family to Louisville in 1927, but returned to France with her family in 1932.) By coming to Louisville, the family joined a substantial French community of coal miners already living in Louisville. According to Camille Hioco's 1955 obituary, he worked as a coal miner and retired after suffering an injury in an explosion in the Hi -Way Mine when he was 62. Based on his birth date, this would have happened in about 1935. Camille and Helen Hioco are shown as living on Jefferson Ave., and in the correct location on Jefferson, in the 1930, 1940, and 1950 U.S. census records. According to an item in the August 15, 1968 Louisville Times on the occasion of Helen Hioco's 95th birthday, she lived at 545 Jefferson until about 1963, then moved in with her son Jules George Hioco and his family (her husband Camille Hioco having passed away in 1955). The following 1948 photo of the house and a ground layout sketch are from the Boulder County Assessor Card: 4