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The next history is given by John’s oldest son, Louis T. Renshaw in 1969: “I, Louis Renshaw, was born January 23, 1890 in Salt Lake City, Utah at 111 U Street. In 1902 our family moved to Sunshine, Utah. There Pa worked in the Quartz mine. We lived in a tent up in the cedars. We hadn’t been there very long when Pa decided to go to Glenco, Wyoming. He went first and he said, “When I send for you, pack up and come!” So when the word came to come to Glenco, we took down the tent, sold it and a few other belongings to a second hand dealer and off we went to Wyoming. Pa worked in the brickyard there and so did I. My job was to turn the bricks over to dry. The wages were small. Pa got a better job at the coal mine in the Engine room. We stayed in Glenco for a few months, then we moved to Diamondville, Wyoming. Pa was a fireman at this coal mine, the #1 mine. We lived in a little house at the mouth of the mine. The big fan was close to us. It puffed away 24 hours a day, but we got used to the noise. Finally, we moved down close to the river at the end of the bridge. The Depot was next door to us. We stayed here for two or three years.
Our next move was to Frontier, Wyoming. It was about five miles away. Pa was running a steam engine that pulled the mine carts out of the mine with a cable.
Ralph Stanley and John Renshaw - Mining Camp in Wyoming Left to right: Ralph Stanley and his father, John Renshaw, is the fifth man from the left. We kids went to school, in all the places we lived, wherever we could. Mother was very concerned that we have ‘proper learning’. Pa took me with him to Pocatello, Idaho. We were going to work at the railroad station there but I wouldn’t let them vaccinate me because of a real bad experience I had when I was inoculated for small pox a few years back. Pa refused to be vaccinated, also, and we went back home without getting the jobs. In the fall of 1906 we decided to move back to Salt Lake City.”
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