Carlos was born on Faial and was the son of Manuel D'Avila and Anna Peters.
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Carlos came to American as a stowaway on a whaler at the age of nine. He had gone to the store for his mother to buy potatoes and never came back. The first the parents knew of his safety was when he arrived in New Bedford. At the age of seven in Fayal, he and his brothers had carried sacks of cobblestones on their backs to make roads. They worked barefooted as they had no shoes. Carlos worked and brought his five brothers and two sisters to America. They all settled in new Bedford. Carlos never returned to the land of his birth.
Carlos came to Provincetown and boarded at the home of Emilia Flores. It was there that he met and fell in love with Provincetown, and his landlady's daugher, Jenny. Together they lived in her parents home at 165 Bradford Street for the rest of their lives. Carlos had many small gasoline boats before purchasing a big dragger with a partner. That boat was named the Jenny and Mary after his wife and oldest daughter. His partner did not tend to business and they lost the boat. He fished with Anthony Russell out of Provincetown later in life.
Provincetown, Mass.-Thursday, June 19, 1952-Obituary-Carlos Avila
Funeral services were held yesterday morning with Requiem Mass at the Church of St. Peter the Apostle for Carlos Avila, 71, of 165 Bradford Street, who died Sunday at the Cape Cod Hospital after a long illness. Interment was in St. Peter's Cemetery.
Mr. Avila was born in Fayal, the Azores, a son of the late Manuel and Anna Peters Avila, both of that place. He came to Provincetown when he was 14 and then began the career of fishing which he followed all his life. He was a communicant of the Church of St. Peter the Apostle, a member of the Walter Welsh Council, Knights of Columbus, and the Blessed Sacrement.
Survivors included his widow, Mrs. Jennie Flores Avila, Provincetown; two daughters, Mrs. Edith Serpa of Provincetown and Mrs. Mary Sawyer, Taunton; three brothers and one sister, all of New Bedford, Manuel, John, and Jules Avila and Mrs. Amelia Pacheco; eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
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Carlos came to American as a stowaway on a whaler at the age of nine. He had gone to the store for his mother to buy potatoes and never came back. The first the parents knew of his safety was when he arrived in New Bedford. At the age of seven in Fayal, he and his brothers had carried sacks of cobblestones on their backs to make roads. They worked barefooted as they had no shoes. Carlos worked and brought his five brothers and two sisters to America. They all settled in new Bedford. Carlos never returned to the land of his birth.
Carlos came to Provincetown and boarded at the home of Emilia Flores. It was there that he met and fell in love with Provincetown, and his landlady's daugher, Jenny. Together they lived in her parents home at 165 Bradford Street for the rest of their lives. Carlos had many small gasoline boats before purchasing a big dragger with a partner. That boat was named the Jenny and Mary after his wife and oldest daughter. His partner did not tend to business and they lost the boat. He fished with Anthony Russell out of Provincetown later in life.
Provincetown, Mass.-Thursday, June 19, 1952-Obituary-Carlos Avila
Funeral services were held yesterday morning with Requiem Mass at the Church of St. Peter the Apostle for Carlos Avila, 71, of 165 Bradford Street, who died Sunday at the Cape Cod Hospital after a long illness. Interment was in St. Peter's Cemetery.
Mr. Avila was born in Fayal, the Azores, a son of the late Manuel and Anna Peters Avila, both of that place. He came to Provincetown when he was 14 and then began the career of fishing which he followed all his life. He was a communicant of the Church of St. Peter the Apostle, a member of the Walter Welsh Council, Knights of Columbus, and the Blessed Sacrement.
Survivors included his widow, Mrs. Jennie Flores Avila, Provincetown; two daughters, Mrs. Edith Serpa of Provincetown and Mrs. Mary Sawyer, Taunton; three brothers and one sister, all of New Bedford, Manuel, John, and Jules Avila and Mrs. Amelia Pacheco; eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
Carlos was born on Faial and was the son of Manuel D'Avila and Anna Peters.
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Carlos came to American as a stowaway on a whaler at the age of nine. He had gone to the store for his mother to buy potatoes and never came back. The first the parents knew of his safety was when he arrived in New Bedford. At the age of seven in Fayal, he and his brothers had carried sacks of cobblestones on their backs to make roads. They worked barefooted as they had no shoes. Carlos worked and brought his five brothers and two sisters to America. They all settled in new Bedford. Carlos never returned to the land of his birth.
Carlos came to Provincetown and boarded at the home of Emilia Flores. It was there that he met and fell in love with Provincetown, and his landlady's daugher, Jenny. Together they lived in her parents home at 165 Bradford Street for the rest of their lives. Carlos had many small gasoline boats before purchasing a big dragger with a partner. That boat was named the Jenny and Mary after his wife and oldest daughter. His partner did not tend to business and they lost the boat. He fished with Anthony Russell out of Provincetown later in life.
Provincetown, Mass.-Thursday, June 19, 1952-Obituary-Carlos Avila
Funeral services were held yesterday morning with Requiem Mass at the Church of St. Peter the Apostle for Carlos Avila, 71, of 165 Bradford Street, who died Sunday at the Cape Cod Hospital after a long illness. Interment was in St. Peter's Cemetery.
Mr. Avila was born in Fayal, the Azores, a son of the late Manuel and Anna Peters Avila, both of that place. He came to Provincetown when he was 14 and then began the career of fishing which he followed all his life. He was a communicant of the Church of St. Peter the Apostle, a member of the Walter Welsh Council, Knights of Columbus, and the Blessed Sacrement.
Survivors included his widow, Mrs. Jennie Flores Avila, Provincetown; two daughters, Mrs. Edith Serpa of Provincetown and Mrs. Mary Sawyer, Taunton; three brothers and one sister, all of New Bedford, Manuel, John, and Jules Avila and Mrs. Amelia Pacheco; eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
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Carlos came to American as a stowaway on a whaler at the age of nine. He had gone to the store for his mother to buy potatoes and never came back. The first the parents knew of his safety was when he arrived in New Bedford. At the age of seven in Fayal, he and his brothers had carried sacks of cobblestones on their backs to make roads. They worked barefooted as they had no shoes. Carlos worked and brought his five brothers and two sisters to America. They all settled in new Bedford. Carlos never returned to the land of his birth.
Carlos came to Provincetown and boarded at the home of Emilia Flores. It was there that he met and fell in love with Provincetown, and his landlady's daugher, Jenny. Together they lived in her parents home at 165 Bradford Street for the rest of their lives. Carlos had many small gasoline boats before purchasing a big dragger with a partner. That boat was named the Jenny and Mary after his wife and oldest daughter. His partner did not tend to business and they lost the boat. He fished with Anthony Russell out of Provincetown later in life.
Provincetown, Mass.-Thursday, June 19, 1952-Obituary-Carlos Avila
Funeral services were held yesterday morning with Requiem Mass at the Church of St. Peter the Apostle for Carlos Avila, 71, of 165 Bradford Street, who died Sunday at the Cape Cod Hospital after a long illness. Interment was in St. Peter's Cemetery.
Mr. Avila was born in Fayal, the Azores, a son of the late Manuel and Anna Peters Avila, both of that place. He came to Provincetown when he was 14 and then began the career of fishing which he followed all his life. He was a communicant of the Church of St. Peter the Apostle, a member of the Walter Welsh Council, Knights of Columbus, and the Blessed Sacrement.
Survivors included his widow, Mrs. Jennie Flores Avila, Provincetown; two daughters, Mrs. Edith Serpa of Provincetown and Mrs. Mary Sawyer, Taunton; three brothers and one sister, all of New Bedford, Manuel, John, and Jules Avila and Mrs. Amelia Pacheco; eight grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
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