Warren County OhArchives Obituaries.....Birt, Howard Oscar May 17, 1917 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Arne H Trelvik atrelvik@earthlink.net January 1, 2006, 6:52 pm Franklin Chronicle I’ve added image and transcription of the obituary for Howard Oscar Birt to the Warren County OHGenWeb project at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohwarren/Obits/birt.htm Text is below. ========== FIRST WAR WIDOW Mrs. Howard Birt Receives News of Husband's Death. At a Casualty Clearing Station Somewhere in France. The great world war is slowly but steadily drawing nearer to us. Each week brings new events that touch us more closely. The first of the week a mes-sage came to Franklin informing a woman of the death of her husband in France. The tele-gram came from Ottawa, Canada, having been cabled from Eng-land. It contained the simple statement that Howard Oscar Birt died of wounds at casualty clearing station No. 42, some-where in France, on May 4th. Howard Birt was formerly a fireman at the Harding Paper Mill. About six years ago he was married to Margaret Mc-Grail and two children were born to them. The younger died a few months ago. Birt enlisted at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was sent to France with other re-cruits from Canada. Mrs. Birt last heard from her husband on May 4th, in a letter which was written April 17th. The brave little wife and mother has had much of sorrow and suffering in the past year. She is Franklin's first widow of the war. Source: Franklin Chronicle May 17, 1917 (copy obtained from the obituary collection at the Warren County Genealogical Society File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/warren/obits/birt47gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb