Person:Thomas Renwick (5)

Sycamore True Republican Saturday, March 10, 1883

DIED - In South Grove, Sunday morning, March 4, after a short illness of only ten days, of typhoid pneumonia, Tommy Renwick, elder son of Mr. and Mrs. James Renwick, in the ninteenth (sic) year of his age.

Deceased had been attending school at Rockford, when sickness compelled him to return home, only to die. He was exceedingly popular with all classes, both old and young, and at his sudden death the whole community, it might be said, was draped in mourning. Death is ever the messenger of sadness. It never finds its victims waiting with folded hands the final summons, yet there are times and reasons specially (sic) inappropriate for his visits. To the old and wary with the cares and labors of life, it offers, rest. Yet the survivors are slow to recognize the fitness of the opportunity, and feel no less their bereavement. To the middle aged it tells of hopes unfulfilled, while those who survive ponder the incompleteness of human life. But there us a peculiar sadness felt when the summons comes to the one on the threshold of life, whose mental abilities gave promise of such bright future; when in the midst of bright hopes the shadow turns back on the dial and goes out in darkness, and the unlived life is lost to our sight forever, then it is that all things on earth become shadows, and human life is mockery. Earth offers no consolation for such grief, and it is vain to offer sympathy in such bereavement. The funeral services were conducted at the family residence by the Rev. George Clark; the remains being followed to the cemetery, not only by the relatives, but by many sympathizing friends of which the long funeral train was composed. G.D.G.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 James Renwick household, in DeKalb, Illinois, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   1870.

   Name: Thomas Renwick
   Estimated Birth Year: abt 1865
   Age in 1870: 5
   Birthplace: Illinois
   Home in 1870: South Grove, Dekalb, Illinois
   Family and neighbors: View Results
   Race: White
   Gender: Male
   Value of real estate: View Image
   Post Office: South Grove
   Household:
   James Renwick 37
   Rosina Renwick 28
   Marion Renwick 8
   Thomas Renwick 5
   Robert Renwick 10/12
   Perry Drake 19
   Isabelle McKinsey 16

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 James Renwick household, in DeKalb, Illinois, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   1860.

   Name:Thomas Renwick
   Home in 1880:South Grove, DeKalb, Illinois
   Age:15
   Estimated Birth Year:abt 1865
   Birthplace:Illinois
   Relation to Head of Household:Son
   Father's Name:James Renwick
   Father's birthplace:Scotland
   Mother's Name:Rose Renwick
   Mother's birthplace:New York
   Neighbors:View others on page
   Occupation:At School
   Marital Status:Single
   Race:White
   Gender:Male
   Household Members:
   NameAge
   James Renwick47
   Rose Renwick38
   Marion Renwick18
   Thomas Renwick15
   Robert Renwick10
   Rose Renwick3
   Walter Renwick23

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} DIED - ...Tommy Renwick, in Sycamore, DeKalb, Illinois, United States. True Republican
   10 Mar 1883.