Eleazer Renslow and
Esther R. Renslow appeared on the census of 1850 in Middlebury Township, Addison County, Vermont.
3 He was a shoemaker in 1850.
Eleazer Renslow and Esther R. Renslow appeared on the census of 1860 in Hinesburgh, Chittenden County, Vermont, which lists Eleazer [mis-indexed as "Eleanor] Renslow, 38, born in Vermont; his wife Esther, 32, born in Vermont; and their children, Viola, 14, Mary, 12, Sidney, 8, Emma, 7, Edgar [mis-indexed as Edson, 5, and Martha, 1, all born in Vermont.
Note: Mary Ellen, born 12 April 1859, not present to be counted in census.
He was a shoemaker in 1860.
He was possibily a Private in the Civil War.
4 Eleazer Renslow and Esther R. Renslow appeared on the census of 1870 in Huntington, Chittenden County, Vermont, >
Huntington, Chittenden Co., VT 1870, pg 16 [handwritten # in upper left corner] family #131/123
>RENSLOW, Alazar [sic; should be Eleazer]; 48y; White; male; works in shoe shop; b VT
>RENSLOW, Esther; 41y; white; female; keeping house; b VT
>RENSLOW, Edgar; 15y; white; male; farm laborer; b VT
>RENSLOW, Martha; 12y; white; female; Works at house; b VT; attending school
>RENSLOW, Flora; 8y; white; female; no occ; b VT; attending school
>RENSLOW, Gertrude; 5y; white; female; b VT; attending school
>RENSLOW, Elazur; 3y; white; male; b VT
>CLARK, Viola; 23y white; female; domestic servant; b VT
>CLARK, Minnora; 3y; white; female; b VT.
5 He was working in a shoe shop in 1870.
Eleazer and Esther (Potter) Renslow apparently separated sometime between 1870 and 1880, because in the 1880 census Eleazer is living with their daughter Viola and her husband Silas K. Kent in Bristol, VT, and Esther and their son Lucius are servants in New Haven, VT. He appeared on the census of 1880 in the household of
Viola C. Kent and
Slias K. Kent in Bristol, Addison County, Vermont.
6 Eleazer Renslow was a shoemaker in 1880.
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