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Note: This comes from part of a Biography for John C. Mason Day (grandson). "The grandfather was Jesse Day, born at New River, Virginia, January 13, 1802, and he died in Morgan county, Kentucky, April 21, 1883. His wife, Margaret Caskey, was born in Morgan county, Kentucky, May 11, 1802, and died in the same county in 1884. The Caskey's were of Huguenot origin. They came to Kentucky from New York in wagons, settling first on Flat Creek, near Mt. Sterling, in Montgomery county, but moving shortly afterward to Morgan county, where they located on the Licking river one and one-half miles from West Liberty. The first of the name in Kentucky had run away from his uncle John to whom he was apprenticed in New York, and tried to join the Revolutionary army when only twelve years old, but was promptly returned to his proud but worried uncle. When Washington was first inaugurated Margaret Caskey's mother took part in the celebration as a flower girl. She and her mother called on Lady Washington. Owing to the straitened times existing after the Revolution, they had little finery in which to adorn themselves, and when telling about it years after, would never fail to describe the pride which prompted, and the difficulty which met her mother in her efforts to make up their homemade silk dresses so as to make a worthy appearance. Another point in the story, as she was accustomed to tell it, was that when they were ushered into the august presence of the first lady of the land, she was quietly knitting in the corner by the fire-place and continued to knit during the whole of the call. They brought with them over the mountains china and utensils rarely found in the back woods at that time, some of which are still preserved with pride by the family, our subject owning a beautiful old fashioned teapot. "
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