A moral shock in the abrupt death of this man, is well evidenced in the fact that his lifeless body was followed to the grave by the largest number of mourners that ever paid respect and a parting tribute to the dead in Oconto. It is not the general community that have suffered so much in the death of this husband, father and friend - the people in general have not felt the keen edge of biting grief. It is a widow bowed down by the weight of heavy sorrow and who has drained the cup of fate down to its bitterdregs. It is a whole family mingling their scalding tears and praying for the return of one who has stepped from the temporary moorings of this earth into the fairy bark of eternity and another world. He is gone but not dead. His memory will be kept green in the thought and recollection of many friends, and in the rememberance of a family who can never, never forget.

tI is not well that the living should at times look into the grave where we all must soon sleep? True, there is pain in it, but there is exaltation, and in that exaltation we rise above the petty discords of daily life, out of the partisan bickerings of narrow living. The sun that disappears at evening in a bank of clouds, or in the glory of a golden sky, will return again as the wonderful flight of the earth goes on. Error may live long, but obliteration will overtake it finally. Truth alone is born to immortality. The life that is of true nobility, is the life service - not a life of scheming for personal gain through false pretense. The life that is of true nobility, is the life of honest service for ones' people. Thus is one who casts himself down lifted up, thus it is that he who stoops to rise the fallen stands erect.

This greatest afflication in the death of Mr. Quirt has indeed fallen upon the home which he honored by his presence. The grief stricken companion of his home can remember a husband who won no less her respect than her love. Although his children are ill able to lose a father, they have the proud consolation of knowing that they have lost a father whose life is an example, and whose industry, perseverance and character should ever be to them an inspiration and a hope. May we not hope that as the night settled thick upon the fast ebbing life of this man, he caught the breath of a better land, and discerned a ray of light from a brighter morning; and disarmed of all worldly ambition, listened to the music floating faintly in upon his weary soul from the far off morning stars, he caught a shadowy picture of perfect union where love reigns, where foul suspicion cometh not, where truth has no rival, where the understanding is purged of sin, where death is not and the eternal life is life in its fullness, in its richness, in it -----nes evermore.

FAMILY LINEAGE:
Ethelda Quirt b. 04/17/1871, Oconto, WI d. 08/28/1935
Edith Myrtle Quirt b. 08/14/1873 Oconto, WI d. 01/16/1951
Mary Ellen Quirt b. 04/06/1876 Oconto, WI d. 05/27/1878 Oconto, WI
Celestia Quirt b. 05/06/1882 d 02/14/1951
Charles David Quirt b.07/10/1885 Oconto, WI d. 07/03/1964 Oconto, WI

NAMES OF PARENTS:
John H. Quart (son of Henry Quart - immigrated from Ireland to Canada) and Elizabeth Church (daughter of George Church and Letitia)

SIBLINGS NAMES:
LETITIA QUIRT b. 12/25/1829 Waterloo Canada d. 3/11/1831 Quebec Canada
WILLIAM HENRY QUIRT b.3/02/1831 Lake Beauport d. 1865 Arthur Canada
ELIZABETH QUIRT b. 02/06/1833, quebec, Canada m. David Quay
SARAH JANE QUIRT, b. Dec 25, 1834, Beauport Parish, Waterloo Stlmnt, Quebec; d. Feb 25, 1904, Eagle Lake, Strong Township, Ontario; m. JOHN RALSTON, 1857, Arthur, Canada; b. Abt. 1830, Quebec, Canada.
MARY ANN QUIRT, b. 1838, Arthur, Wellington Co, Ontario; d. Aug 24, 1917, Arthur, Wellington Co, Ontario; m. JOHN BUSCHLEN, 1857, Arthur, Canada; b. 1831, Switzerland; d. 1908, Arthur, Canada.
GEORGE QUIRT, b. Jul 02, 1837, Arthur, Wellington Co, Ontario; d. Abt. 1916; m. ANN JANE EDEN; b. 1842; d. 1916.
JOHN QUIRT, b. 1842, Arthur, Wellington Co, Ontario; d. 1921, California; m. MARY OGDEN, 1865, Arthur Canada; b. 1847, Arthur Canada.
, b. Oct 23, 1844, Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence Co, New York; d. Oct 10, 1897, Oconto, Oconto Co., WI.
THOMAS HARVEY QUIRT, b. Dec 26, 1846, Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence Co, New York; d. Mar 11, 1926, Sundridge, Strong Township, Ontario; m. SUSAN CHESNEY BOYLE; b. 1845.
SUSAN QUIRT, b. 1850, Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence Co, New York; m. (1) JAMES HAMILTON, 1872, Arthur, Canada; m. (2) JOHN RYAN, 1879, Arthur, Canada.
FRANCIS A. QUIRT, b. Feb 28, 1852, Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence Co, New York; d. Jan 11, 1930, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Submitted by Peg Quirt Dosen grand daughter of Charles David Quirt