Anthony Fallo, Oldest Citizen, Dies at over Hundred and One
Submitted by Larie Tedesco January 2006
Daily Picayune 05-20-1911


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   Anthony Fallo, aged 101 years and 7 months,
probably the oldest man in the City of New Orleans,
will be buried from his daughter's residence, corner
of Cadiz and Camp Streets, on Sunday afternoon.
   The aged centenarian died yesterday at 3:30
o'clock, from senility.   He was in apparently good
health all the time, but got weak spells every now and
then.   When he celebrated his one hundred and first
anniversary he was in good health, and one of the
jolliest of the big crowd that came to the afternoon
fair and made merry with him.
   Mr. Fallo was born in Ustica, Italy and saw
several rulers of that country.   He was a small boy
when the battle of New Orleans was fought below the
city.
   Despite his great age he had a remarkable memory,
and used to tell his children and grandchildren of the
many great things he had seen. He told his children,
when Halley's comet approached the earth the last
time, of the great fear it had caused when it visited
the earth in 1835, while he was still in his native
land.
   He came to this country because it was the land of
the free and the place where a man had a chance to
make a livelihood.
   After birth Mr. Fallo spent thirty-seven years in
Ustica, embarking and landing in the United States
sixty-three years ago.   He came to this country in
the prime of life, and went into the fruit and
vegetable business at Thalia and Locust Streets. For
fifty years he kept a fruit and vegetable stand at the
above-mentioned corner, finding business so lucrative
that he did not want to give it up, even when old age
forced him to retire and go to live with his daughter.
   Mr. Fallo was well known in the Italian colony.
He ws of quiet and unassuming manners, and as a result
won a host of friends, not only among his own people,
but of that of other races, and last night the home in
which his body was laid out was thronged.   He
belonged to the St. Bartolomeo Society, but no others,
and hs funeral will probably be one of the largest in
some time.   The remains will be taken from the house
to St. Stephen's Church where a solemn requiem service
will be chanted, from thence conveyed to Metairie
Cemetery, where they will be placed in the family
tomb.
   Mr. Fallo's wife, Catherine Verges, preceded him
to the grave fifteen years ago; while two sons born to
the union are also dead.   The daughters, Mrs. Katie
Russo and Mrs. Marie Natal, survive, along with
thirty-four grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.