Roberts, Dean

ROBERTS

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 6/20/2011 at 11:43:12

Roberts, Dean -
Must people here have seen old Dean Roberts, the house mover. He was a remarkable man physically, 6 feet, 3 inches high and weighing 220 pounds. He was a confederate teamster in war times, and kept up hard work to the time of his death last Saturday, aged 87 years. Roberts boasted that he had not slept in a bed in over twenty years, and could drink a quart of whiskey a day.

The Mount Ayr Dispatch telling of his death says that he was crushed by a fifty ton beam, which fell upon him when the coupling pin broke in the wagon while going downhill . He was moving it at the time. Roberts called for a repetition of "When You and I Were Young Maggie," when it was played on a Victrola in a restaurant
not long ago, saying "It touches my heart , seeing I 'm going to die in a few days.”
Clearfield Enterprise, Clearfield, Iowa, December 21, 1916