Anton COLUMBUS

                   EMMA according to the Nordstrom history, married Anton "Tony" Columbus, who was born July 20, 1876 in Turin, Italy and died Setpember 29, 1969 in Red Lodge.  He was six when he moved to Illinois (about 1882).  His father, Frank Colombus, was a farmer who came to America in the early eighties. "They formerly traveled all through Italy. They did this for many generations in the northern part of Italy.  Aton's father, grandfather, adn great-grandfather fought in the Garibaldy when they freed Rome."  Anton worked in the cola mines in Carbonhill, Illinois until age 23. He married Emma on March 19, 1890 in Coal City, Illinois and they had two children, Clara and Dominic, before moving to Red Lodge, MT in 1899, where he worked as a coal miner.
RECALL taht Emma's mother, Mary, had already moved to Red Lodge by 1889.  The 1910 census lists Anton, 22, weighmaster, adn Emma, of "Italy-Germany" descent, with the following children:  Clara, 13, and Dominic, 11, born in Illinois, and Walter, 8, Laura, 6, and Catherine, 2, all born in Montana.  Also living with them is "mother-in-law" MAry "Feralia" Feroglio, age 60, born in Germany, whose father was Italian and whose mother was German.  They lived on North Haggin Ave. in Red Lodge.  (It might be noted here that this North Haggin Ave. was in what was called the Little Italy area of red Lodge.)
ANTON'S obituary verifies that he was born in Turin, Italy July 20, 1876, and moved at age 6 to Coal City, Illinois and moved to Red Lodge "71 years ago" (about 1898).   He died October 2, 1969, age 93.  (Carbon County News obit.)  
THEIR son, Dominic, died at age 20 in 1918, and his obituary says he was born in Coal City, Illinois on December 20, 1898 and brought to red Lodge by his parents at age six months. (Carbon County Journal obit., 6-5-1918)