ELLA (ELLEN) VAN HORN, daughter of John Calvin Van Horn and we believe Elizabeth H. Page. Granddaughter of John C. Van Horne and Malinda Hinton, was born About 1869 in Miami County, Kansas. She died in Wichita, Kansas.
Ella (Ellen) Van Horn married James Day.
Children of Ella (Ellen) Van Horn and James Day are:
1. Robert Lincoln Day, b. August 12, 1892, d. July 8, 1956
2. Media Day, b. 1895
3. Cliff (Roy) Day, b. 1897, d. 1917
Ellen's husband, James Day, was said to be quite a drinker. She had a very hard life. In 1915 she worked in the laundry at Osawatomie, Kansas with Marie Boling Cornelius. Ellen Van Horn-Day was a very lovely lady. Years later she went to live with her daughter, Media, in Wichita, Kansas, where, in 1917, she passed away. She is buried in Osawatomie Cemetery.
When Ellen's youngest son was in the army, he died of the flu. His mother went to Leavenworth and brought her son's body back by herself. At Fort Leavenworth in 1917 the flu was so rampant that when she arrived to claim the body of her son Roy, there was no one to help her find him. She had to make her way through the tents filled with the dead until she found her boy to bring his remains home to be buried in Osawatomie Cemetery. Her oldest son, Robert Lincoln, also rests in Osawatomie Cemetery beside his wife, Ruby Ruth Boling.
---These notes were graciously shared with us by Bus Cornelius of Costa Mesa, California. Thanks, Bus!
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