Moir, Robert R. 1899-1900

MOIR

Posted By: Viv Reeves (email)
Date: 1/18/2006 at 19:24:38

From the LeMars Sentinel, Monday, June 11, 1900, Page 4, Column 2:

CAUSED ITS DEATH
An Infant Swallows a Number of Pills
Which Were Accidentally Left Lying Around

Death visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Moir residing on Eagle street, under particularly distressing circumstances on Friday afternoon. Their baby boy aged nine months old got hold of a quantity of pills which had been left lying around and swallowed some of them, how many is not known. Indeed at first it was not known that he had swallowed any of them. The little fellow had something to eat after that and along in the afternoon was seized with violent convulsions and died inside an hour. Dr. Mammen was called in but medical skill was of no avail by that stage to overcome the effect of the dose the child had consumed.

The pills were some which Mr. Moir had been taking for stomach trouble.

Mr. and Mrs. Moir are heartbroken over the loss of their little boy. He was their only child and was a bright and winsome little fellow of remarkable beauty.

The funeral was held on Sunday at the house.

~Note: This child's name was Robert R. Moir. His date of death calculates to June 8 in his obit; his death record gives the date of death as June 6; his burial record as June 7.
~Note: Per the Beely & Fissel Funeral Home records index--Robert Ray Moir, d. 08 June 1900, buried LeMars City Cemetery; page 133.