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Peter Sorell |
b. April 21, 1858
m. 1881
d. May 13, 1938 in Summit township, Cloud County, Kansas
Peter was born in April, 1858 (according to his tombstone) in Canada (according to the 1900 census) and moved with his parents to the United States at the age of two. He had a sister, Marie, who married a Mr. Bisnette. Peter's family ultimately settled in Zurich, Rooks County, Kansas. As this county is said to have been first settled in 1871, we have to assume they first settled elsewhere. (According to the 1900 census, Peter migrated to the US in 1860, was illiterate, and did not own a farm.)
Peter Sorrell married Idelaid "Delia" Moran in 1881. They began farming outside St. Joseph, Cloud county, Kansas, where all their children were born. Peter and Idelaid later moved to Plainville, Kansas where they continued to farm assisted by their son, Aldemore. When old age precluded framing, they (including Aldemore and his family) moved to Jamestown, Kansas.
According to one tradition (from a granddaughter, Alice Alexander), they lived in a sod house that they built into the side of a hill; this same tradition states that they homesteaded this (second?) farm.
Peter died on Friday, May 13, 1938, at his home in Summit township, Cloud County, Kansas, about three years after Idelaide. Peter and Idelaid are buried side by side, with a single headstone in the Catholic cemetery in Concordia, Kansas. (His obituary appeared in the two Concordia newspapers.) Peter was the father of 7 children, 6 sons and one daughter.
