Finally, through sheer persistence, her request was granted and a sympathetic judge passed down an order for Julia's exhumation.
She was unable to explain why she needed to do this, she only knew that she should. For the next six years, the dreams plagued Filomena and she began trying, without success, to have her daughter's grave opened and her body exhumed. In the dreams, Julia claimed that she had been buried alive and needed her mother to free her. Oddly, after Julia's death, her mother, Filomena Buccola, began to have eerie dreams about her daughter every night. She was buried in her wedding dress, with her stillborn child in her arms. The story goes that Julia Buccola grew up on the West Side of Chicago, married and died in childbirth with her infant in 1921. Julia is best-known today as the "Italian Bride," and her grave site is marked by a life-sized statue of her in her wedding dress, a marble reproduction of the photograph of Julia in the same dress that is mounted on the monument. She is buried in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside - the same resting place as Al Capone and Dean O'Banion - and her monument can be found along the Wold Road side. If I have to pick only one monument, it's that of a young woman named Julia Buccola Petta, who only became semi-famous after her death, not in life. Suggested by Troy Taylor: Julia Buccola Petta Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hillside (Troy Taylor photo)
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