Peter Sorell

Peter Sorell	Narrative
b. April 21, 1858 Father: Edward Sorel Mother: Justine Sorel m. 1881 Wife: Idelaid "Delia" Morin; children: Louis Edward("Ned") Sorell Peter Maximus ("Mike") Sorell Moisens Souverain ("Frank Mohs")Sorell Alfred Napolean ("John")Sorrell Joseph Adelmar ("Aldemore Joseph") Sorell Joseph Bapiste Albert Sorrell Rosana Mary Sorell d. May 13, 1938; 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 ounty, Kansas. As this county is said to have been first settled in 1871, we have to assume Peter's family 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 farming, they (including Aldemore and his family) moved to Jamestown, Kansas. According to one verbal 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. Updated January 5, 2000 Information from an earlier "family sheet" of unknown origin, supplemented and corrected by information from: "A momento of the Family Round-up, June 13-14, 1989, Concordia, Kansas", prepared by Emily Sorrell McLeaish, copy provided courtesy of Louann Alexander; and from a pedigree chart kindly provided by Rena Smith. Death date confirmed via obituaries.

Narrative

b. April 21, 1858
Father: Edward Sorel
Mother: Justine Sorel

m. 1881
Wife: Idelaid "Delia" Morin; children:

d. May 13, 1938; 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 ounty, Kansas. As this county is said to have been first settled in 1871, we have to assume Peter's family 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 farming, they (including Aldemore and his family) moved to Jamestown, Kansas.

According to one verbal 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.

Updated January 5, 2000
Information from an earlier "family sheet" of unknown origin, supplemented and corrected by information from: "A momento of the Family Round-up, June 13-14, 1989, Concordia, Kansas", prepared by Emily Sorrell McLeaish, copy provided courtesy of Louann Alexander; and from a pedigree chart kindly provided by Rena Smith. Death date confirmed via obituaries.