Byron Beaumont Renshaw (1885)

RENSHAW

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 10/8/2007 at 09:33:34

Winterset Madisonian - June 18, 1885
Winterset, Iowa
page 4

Our Chip Basket

Byron Renshaw, son of Lon Renshaw, died at his father's home Wednesday morning of typhoid fever. He had been attending school in Des Moines and about four weeks ago was taken with the mumps and went home, he took cold in going from the depot to his home and typhoid fever set in from which he died Wednesday morning about seven o'clock. He was a bright and interesting young man and his death is deeply deplored by all who knew him.

--------------
Winterset Madisonian - June 18, 1885
Winterset, Iowa
page 4

BYRON RENSHAW

Byron Renshaw was born in Clayton county, Iowa, March 14 A. D. 1862, and died in Madison county, Ia., June 10th A. D. 1885, aged 23 years 2 months and 26 days. He was a promising young man, out down in the very bloom of life, but we trust that to-day he shines a new star in the firmament of heaven.

He entered into the battle of life with courage and hope and fell a victim to death in the midst of success. He entered Simpson Centennary college in 1881, and after a short course attended the select school at DeSoto, and began to teach in the fall he was 21, and taught six terms successfully.

Intelligent, manly and energetic he seemed to be sure of success in life. Last spring he began a couse in the Iowa Business College, but soon became a victim to disease and after five weeks of patient suffering he passed away.

Before his death, though weak and failing, he was not discouraged or tired of life, but when his friends and physician had given him up to die still he bravely clung to life and believed that he would recover. He leaves a host of relatives and friends to mourn his loss but we are comforted in the thought, "ye all shall meet again." Yesterday after funeral services at his fathers house at 2 p.m., a procession of 37 teams bore his body away for burial in the Fairview buring ground in Jefferson township. But we trust he will have a celestial body and will be a member of our Father's family in the resurrection morn.

E. W. Curtis.

Note: Byron Renshaw is buried in the Fairview cemetery.