Information from Sheila - Jenny Anselmo (Sciachitanos granddaughter)The  overall story of the family as we know it is that Vito and Antonio  Sciachitano's uncle owned a restaurant and asked Vito Sciachitano who lived in Sambucca Sicilily to come to  America and work for him.  Vito came over on a boat to Louisiana and then on to  Des Moines.  Cecida Anselmo, Marian Anselmos sister was ready here and married Dick Fiori.  Her other sister Josephine  Anselmo married Salvatore Vertolino and moved to Philadelphia.  The rest of  the Anselmo family followed then on to Philadelphia.  Anna Sciachitano the  only sister of Vito knew someone in Philadelphia and that's how Vito met Marion.   Then Jenny (Vincenza) Anselmo met Antonio of course through them and brothers  married sisters.  They had a huge lavish wedding in Philadelphia on July 19,  1926, that Jenny (Vincenza) Anselmo spoke of continually until the dementia  started.  Antonio's uncle broke his leg and sold his restaurant to him.   Antonio also had 2 other restaurants in downtown Des Moines: 'You & I' and 'NY  Coney Island'.  But Jenny (Vincenza) Anselmo made him 
 sell it all off before she would marry him.   I never really understood why  because that's what he knew and he continued to work for others in food  service his entire life.  And so it goes, were probably still the only  Italian family in the Des Moines area that doesn't have a restaurant!

The site Has the Sciachitanos from Sicily - Des Moines- Wisconsin . The Olmsteads heritage was from Lithuanian, Russia and Germany
 The Grimms in Osceola, Iowa.

When Jesse Pearl Olmstead was born on 11 August 1906, in Charles City, Floyd, Iowa, United States, his father, Edmund Walter Olmstead, was 22 and his mother, Lauretta Elmira Miller, was 21. He married Adolphina Kasokitis on 20 September 1924, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Polk, Iowa, United States in 1915 and Bloomfield Township, Polk, Iowa, United States in 1920. He died on 1 December 1960, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States.