Robert married Flora Stradling 25 Dec 1882 in Sac City, Sac Co., IA. They were the parents of Robert (1885), Durward, Lillie, Cora Belle (1889), Artie, Archie, Bernice (1892), James, & Flora Iona (1902).
July 29, 1909 - Carroll Times - Robert Birt, one of the beat known citizens of Sac township, for many years secretary of the township school board, died suddenly this morning as the sequel of what is belelved to be a mistake. His wife heard him downstairs, apparently suffering, and went down. When he saw her he said: "Do you kuow what I took? It was wood alcohol."
She immediately summoned help by telephone aud called the doctor from Auburn, the Birt home being about three miles southwest of this place. it was 2:10 a.m. when the doctor was called und he made haste to reach the Birt farm, but Mr. Birt was dead upon his arrival. There is no explanation of his error except that he may have found the wood alcohol where he expected a bottle of medicine to be. The bottle was plainly labeled "Wood Alcohol" and "Poison." The liquid was kept in the house to furnish heat for ironing.
Mr. Birt was a respected citizen, in his fifty-first year, and leaves a wife and six children. The Auburn Recorder reports that Birt had been at Carroll and got on one of his sprees, but while sobering up got a craving for liquor which led to taking repeated drafts of the wood alcohol, with the fatal results enumerated. That Birt was a hard drinker was generally known, and whenever he was under the influence he was an unpleasant customer who was an enemy to his best friend as well as the patient suffering wife and family. Nothing could be done for him it seems. It was his insatible appetite that brought him to his tragic death
July 29, 1909 - Carroll Times - Robert Birt, one of the beat known citizens of Sac township, for many years secretary of the township school board, died suddenly this morning as the sequel of what is belelved to be a mistake. His wife heard him downstairs, apparently suffering, and went down. When he saw her he said: "Do you kuow what I took? It was wood alcohol."
She immediately summoned help by telephone aud called the doctor from Auburn, the Birt home being about three miles southwest of this place. it was 2:10 a.m. when the doctor was called und he made haste to reach the Birt farm, but Mr. Birt was dead upon his arrival. There is no explanation of his error except that he may have found the wood alcohol where he expected a bottle of medicine to be. The bottle was plainly labeled "Wood Alcohol" and "Poison." The liquid was kept in the house to furnish heat for ironing.
Mr. Birt was a respected citizen, in his fifty-first year, and leaves a wife and six children. The Auburn Recorder reports that Birt had been at Carroll and got on one of his sprees, but while sobering up got a craving for liquor which led to taking repeated drafts of the wood alcohol, with the fatal results enumerated. That Birt was a hard drinker was generally known, and whenever he was under the influence he was an unpleasant customer who was an enemy to his best friend as well as the patient suffering wife and family. Nothing could be done for him it seems. It was his insatible appetite that brought him to his tragic death
Robert married Flora Stradling 25 Dec 1882 in Sac City, Sac Co., IA. They were the parents of Robert (1885), Durward, Lillie, Cora Belle (1889), Artie, Archie, Bernice (1892), James, & Flora Iona (1902).
July 29, 1909 - Carroll Times - Robert Birt, one of the beat known citizens of Sac township, for many years secretary of the township school board, died suddenly this morning as the sequel of what is belelved to be a mistake. His wife heard him downstairs, apparently suffering, and went down. When he saw her he said: "Do you kuow what I took? It was wood alcohol."
She immediately summoned help by telephone aud called the doctor from Auburn, the Birt home being about three miles southwest of this place. it was 2:10 a.m. when the doctor was called und he made haste to reach the Birt farm, but Mr. Birt was dead upon his arrival. There is no explanation of his error except that he may have found the wood alcohol where he expected a bottle of medicine to be. The bottle was plainly labeled "Wood Alcohol" and "Poison." The liquid was kept in the house to furnish heat for ironing.
Mr. Birt was a respected citizen, in his fifty-first year, and leaves a wife and six children. The Auburn Recorder reports that Birt had been at Carroll and got on one of his sprees, but while sobering up got a craving for liquor which led to taking repeated drafts of the wood alcohol, with the fatal results enumerated. That Birt was a hard drinker was generally known, and whenever he was under the influence he was an unpleasant customer who was an enemy to his best friend as well as the patient suffering wife and family. Nothing could be done for him it seems. It was his insatible appetite that brought him to his tragic death
July 29, 1909 - Carroll Times - Robert Birt, one of the beat known citizens of Sac township, for many years secretary of the township school board, died suddenly this morning as the sequel of what is belelved to be a mistake. His wife heard him downstairs, apparently suffering, and went down. When he saw her he said: "Do you kuow what I took? It was wood alcohol."
She immediately summoned help by telephone aud called the doctor from Auburn, the Birt home being about three miles southwest of this place. it was 2:10 a.m. when the doctor was called und he made haste to reach the Birt farm, but Mr. Birt was dead upon his arrival. There is no explanation of his error except that he may have found the wood alcohol where he expected a bottle of medicine to be. The bottle was plainly labeled "Wood Alcohol" and "Poison." The liquid was kept in the house to furnish heat for ironing.
Mr. Birt was a respected citizen, in his fifty-first year, and leaves a wife and six children. The Auburn Recorder reports that Birt had been at Carroll and got on one of his sprees, but while sobering up got a craving for liquor which led to taking repeated drafts of the wood alcohol, with the fatal results enumerated. That Birt was a hard drinker was generally known, and whenever he was under the influence he was an unpleasant customer who was an enemy to his best friend as well as the patient suffering wife and family. Nothing could be done for him it seems. It was his insatible appetite that brought him to his tragic death
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