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Obituary- Patell, Paul

Paul Patell Died December 8
A letter received last week by C. E. Van Vleck, told of the death of Paul Pattell [sic], one of the pio¬neer settlers of this vicinity but who has been living for the past five or six years at Verden, Okla, where he died December 8.
The following short sketch of his life is taken from a history of Kansas printed in 1883, in which many of the residents of Rossville township at that date were given a brief mention:
“Paul Patell, carpenter, Rossville, came to Kansas in 1870, and first located at Topeka. He was born in Kansas City, Mo. September 21, 1833, where he re¬mained until 1882. Then he started for California across the Territories of Kansas, Colorado, and Utah. They had trouble with the Indians near Salt Lake and went through Nevada to Sacra¬mento, Calif. Remained there about three years and went to the West Indies as a sailor on a mer¬chant vessel. Worked as ship carpenter in the south. He was married in 1870 in Louisiana, to Miss Elizabeth Lasha, and came to Topeka in the same year. His wife and child died at Topeka in 1871, and he was married in the following year to Mrs. Josett LaFrombois [sic Laframboise], a native of Chicago.”