Elizabeth Ann Wyatt Partello

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Obituary- Partello, Elizabeth

Mrs. Partello Dead
The grim reaper thrust his cycle again into the community of Rossville and gathered another of its oldest settlers. Mrs. E. A. Partello, who came to Rossville in 1868, and has dwelt here ever since, died on the morning of December 13th 1910, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Dr. H. H. Miller, after an illness of only two weeks.

Her maiden name was Elizabeth Ann Wyatt. She was born at Gossport Indiana, October 28th, 1838. In 1852 she became a resident of Hartford, Iowa, where she lived until 1862. On New Years day, of 1862, she became the wife of Mr. E. E. Partello, and a few months later they went west to Kansas. While still living at Hartford she at one time helped to prepare food for escaping slaves from the South at one of the stations of the historic “underground railway” system. And while living in Brown county, Kansas, in 1863 the days of guerrilla warefare, one night after the day in which Mr. Partello had sold some cattle and received the money for them, their new made home in this new country, was attacked by a guerrilla band. Mrs. Partello saved her husband’s life by placing herself between him and the gun in the hands of the guerrilla leader. She recognized this leader as being their nearest neighbor and her testimony afterwards sent him for a long term of years to the penitentiary.

Of her life of seventy-two years, one month and sixteen days, forty-two years were lived in Rossville. During these years here her experiences were mixed with both joy and sadness. Of a family of seven children she had the joy and privilege of mothering two daughters and two sons into womanhood and manhood, and she had a mother’s grief in having three of her children taken from her by death. On December 1903 she entered the shadow of a wife’s sorrow in the death of her husband. Having lived here so long and her family were everywhere well known and a large circle of friends are the result of these years of acquaintanceship.

Besides her two sons and two daughters, two sisters and two brothers, still survive her. These together with many other relatives and a host of friends, deeply morn her departure, but find consolation in the fact that she died in the faith, for at the age of fourteen years she united with the Little Mound Baptist church in Indiana, and was a member of the Baptist church at Holton, Kansas, at the time of her death.

Rev. John H. Lamb, of the Presbyterian church officiated at the funeral service, which was held at the home of Dr. H.H. Miller, Wednesday afternoon December 14th 1910. Many neighbors and friends crowded the home to pay their last tribute to their departed.

After the service at the home the body was put in its last resting place in the Rossville cemetery.