Renshaw, Frank L., 1871-1934

RENSHAW, MINARD, ANGIER

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Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:33

From the Rock Valley Bee, December 7, 1934:

FRANK L. RENSHAW PASSED AWAY THIRSDAY

Mr. Frank L. Renshaw passed away at his home iin Wenatchee, Washington, at 6:30 Thanksgiving evening, after a painful and lingering illness of four years. He was a patient sufferer and the Christian fortitude which he manifested all through his illness was marvelous and a benediction to all whose privilege it was to minister to him.

He leaves his wife, who used to be Gertrude Minard, now a semi-invalid, two brothers and two sisters. Within the year he lost both his children. Minard, aged 29, a graduate M.D., who lacked only two weeks of finishing his interne work at Seattle when he could begin the practice of his chosen profession, and Helen, 25, who graduated in nurse training at the Swedish hospital in Seattle. The first three years of her father’s illness she cared for him. Then she fell ill and after nine months in a sanatorium she passed away, just one year, lacking a week, from the time Minard was taken.

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RESEARCH NOTES

Indexed information from his death certificate on Ancestry.com has him as Frank Leroy Renshaw, age 63, died 29 Nov 1934 in Wenatchee, Chelan County, Washington; parents David L. Renshaw and Persis Augies [probably mis-transcribed]; wife Gertrude.

FindaGrave.com gives his birth date as 8 Aug 1871; death 29 Nov 1934; buried in Home of Peace Mausoleum, Wenatchee. There is a photo of the joint crypt marker for him and Helen G. Renshaw (1909-1934). Spouse, Gertrude M. Minard Renshaw (1875-1944). Children, Minard R. Renshaw (1903-1933) and Helen Gertrude Renshaw (1909-1934).

U.S. census records show Frank (age 8) with his parents and several siblings living in Farmersburg, Clayton County, Iowa in 1880. Frank (age 27), a school teacher, is living in Rock Valley in 1900 with his parents, sister Stella (29), and brother Carroll (26, a dentist). In 1910, 1920, and 1930 he and his family are living in Chelan, Washington, where he is a fruit farmer.

The Sioux County marriage register for 1900 has groom, Frank L. Renshaw, age 29, resident of Rock Valley, a teacher, born in National, Iowa, parents David L. Renshaw and Persis A. Angier; bride, Gertrude S. Minard, age 25, resident of Rock Valley, born in Bourbon, Indiana, parents E. J. Minard and Emily Hale; married at Rock Valley June 27, 1900.

News notes in the Sioux County newspapers show that Renshaw was teaching school in the Sioux County area by 1895. After their marriage the Renshaws moved to Inwood, where he was elected principal of the graded school. They were living in Galva in 1907, and had moved to Wenatchee by the latter part of 1910, although his parents still lived in Rock Valley.