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Paul Peysert

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Birth Date: August 22, 1888
Death Date: February 8, 1920
Age at Death: 31
Sex: M
Cause of Death: Influenza

Burial Details

Cemetery Name: DeBeque Cemetery
Cemetery Location: DeBeque, Colorado
Mortuary Name: A. F. Graham Funeral Parlor, Red Cliff, Colorado

Obituaries

Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - February 13, 1920

[Death date conflict: obituary implies February 8, 1920; headstone says February 15, 1920]
PAUL PEYSERT.
The first victim this year of the flu in this county was claimed last Sunday morning when Paul PEYSERT died of pneumonia, following an attack of the influenza.
Mr. PEYSERT was a young rancher, living with his wife and small child over on the Grand river, and the wife and baby were both sick at the time the father and husband was stricken. The deceased's mother was notified of her son's serious condition Saturday, and she arrived in Gypsum from DeBeque that night, but when she reached the sick bed Sunday he was dead.
The remains were brought to Gypsum Monday and prepared for shipment to his former home in DeBeque by Mortician A. F. GRAHAM. A brother whose home is in Denver arrived Monday and accompanied the remains to DeBeque Wednesday morning, where the funeral was held.
The deceased has lived in this county for a number of years, having been a resident of Red Cliff for some time, in the employ of the Fleming Lumber Company as a teamster. He has many friends who will regret his passing, and the wife and baby child have their sympathy in the loss of a good husband and father.

Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - February 13, 1920

AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY HARD HIT BY THE INFLUENZA.
One of the worst hit communities in Eagle county by the influenza so far this year is the district over on the Grand river, northwest of Gypsum. Nearly every person in the neighborhood has had the disease, or is now having it, with a number of them seriously sick, and one death. Just at this time the roads are very hard to travel, and the neighborhood is nearly isolated from the rest of the county. The well have been nursing the sick, and with the local doctors going night and day with patients in their immediate neighborhoods, medical attention has been almost impossible to secure. In answer to an appeal for help last Saturday, Dr. Frank Montgomery made the very had trip over there to help those most needing attention. It was an all night journey, partly on horseback, and a very trying trip which nearly put the Doctor of of commission after he came back. He found Paul PEYSERT and his wife and baby all sick, Mr. PEYSERT being beyond the stage where medical aid was of any avail, and he died Sunday. M. L. JOHNSON and his wife were both very sick, as was also J. A. HADDOCK.

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