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Marriage: Children:
  1. George Day: Birth: MAY 1873 in Ohio.

  2. Mary Elizabeth Day: Birth: JUN 1874 in Ohio. Death: ? 1915 in Seattle, Washington

  3. Charles Walter Day: Birth: 27 MAR 1876 in Probably Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio. Death: FEB 1967 in Dayton, Ohio

  4. Clara Viola Day: Birth: JUL 1877.

  5. John Madison Day: Birth: APR 1883.

  6. Fannie P. Day: Birth: JUL 1886.

  7. Emma May Day: Birth: AUG 1888.

  8. William Day: Birth: MAY 1892.

  9. Person Not Viewable


Notes
a. Note:   N12 According to his application for a pension, William was born 2 July 1842. In 9 May 1921 in his request for an attendant it is stated that he was born 2 July 1841. However, his civil war muster-in records (see below) indicate that he was 17 or 18 in 1862; the 1850 Census shows him as five years old. Therefore I think 1845 the more likely date. The 1900 census of Bethel Township, Clark County, Ohio, lists his birthdate as May 1843 and his occupation day laborer. William was a tinner or tinker by profession; worked as a grocer in 1870; served in the 110th Ohio Infantry in the Civil War. Was illiterate; documents signed by him have an "X" mark. On 18 August 1862 he enlisted in Company C, 110th Regiment, Ohio Infantry, for a term of three years. It is stated that he was 17 years old, five feet eight inches tall, of fair complexion, with grey eyes and dark hair. He was paid a bounty of $25. On 2 October 1862 he was mustered in at Camp Piqua, Ohio as a private. During most of the next three years the Company Muster Roll reports him present. In December 1862 he was “Absent sick disease of the heart, in Hospt. Cumberland, Md.” In May 1863 he was “On duty attendant in Post Hospital.” In February, 1864 he was “Absent detailed to do guard duty at Brandy Station, Feb. 9/5.” While in the hospital, it was stated that he had “Pay due from enlistment.” He mustered out near Washington, D. C. on 25 June 1865. He had been paid to 31 December, 1864, which was when his clothing account had last been settled. He had since drawn out $25.58 and was owed $9.13. He was also still due $75.00 on his bounty. In 1870 he lived with his parents and was working as a grocer. I have been unable to find his future wife in the 1870 census. The names of his children come to us from his application for pension. “I do not know the dates of births of children,” he says in the application, which he signed with his mark. I finally found the Days in the 1900 census and got some further information about their children there, as six of them were still living at home. He died in the old soldiers' home in Dayton; according to his granddaughter Mary Ellis, he had been (unwillingly) separated from his wife when he was put there. I have a picture of him as an old man with white hair and a bushy white mustache. Near the end of his life, he applied for a personal attendant: “Needs the regular personal aid and attendance of another person on account of Defective vision, Chronic Rheumatism, Vertigo, Dizziness, Paralysis, Disabilities and helplessness of old age. I need an attendant.” On 14 September 1921 he died of a cerebral hemorrhage.


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