Sabina's maiden name is found as both Logston and Logsdon; local resources do not present a strong indication of which spelling is the correct one.

Counted among the earliest pioneers, about 1829 they settled in Hancock County and began carving their farm out of the virgin sod and timber.  As usual, conflicting details are given in various references.  The Majorville souvenir booklet says the Days arrived in the Majorville area in 1838. We're guessing that was a misprint, intended to read 1828.  In a short essay, Early Settlers of Fountain Green Tp., George C. Tyler wrote that they arrived in 1829.

Consider the obituary of Thomas Jefferson Lincoln.  His obituary, census records and other general statements lead to the conclusion that John Day was the brother of Thomas Lincoln's mother, Frances Day Lincoln, and that it was this John Day and his wife, Sabina, who accompanied James B. Lincoln and his wife, Frances (Thomas' parents), first from Kentucky to Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1829, and then on to Hancock County in the fall of that year.

See also: Early Fountain Green Schools

Regardless of the exact date of their arrival in Hancock County, there were few neighbors, no nearby villages, townships wouldn't even have names until 1850.  The land was untamed and uncultivated; life was hard, a matter of survival of the fittest and a large measure of good luck.

The map below gives a perspective of where they were located in relationship to the present day village of Fountain Green and Majorville Cemetery, where eventually John and Sabina would be laid to rest followed by a number of their descendants.

The dark line running more or less horizontally through the bottom third of the map represents the border between Fountain Green Township to the north and Hancock Township to the south. Majorville Cemetery is indicated by the small square labeled "Church" in Section 2 on the northern edge of Hancock Township.  On June 10, 1835, John Day went to the land office in Quincy and paid $1.25 per acre for 80 acres in the southwest quarter of section 26 in what was then known as Township Six North of the Beardstown Baseline, and Five West of the 4th Principal Meridian.  He had a preemptive option to purchase the land, meaning that because he was already settled on land owned by the government, he was given first choice to buy it.  Sections are 1 mile in length, 1 mile in breadth, so the Days lived a mile or so east of the eventual site of Fountain Green, and a mile or so north of present day Majorville Cemetery, the precise distance dependent on where within their property John built their cabin.  View another representation of the Days' property.

On June 8, 1837, John purchased (also for $1.25 per acre) 40 acres in Hancock Township: the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of Section 14.  This acreage lies exactly two miles south of present day Majorville Cemetery.

Due to the backlog created in the rush to buy land within the Military Tract, the certificates of ownership wouldn't be issued until 1840.

John and Sabina are said to have been the parents of 11 children, not all of whom we can document. The birth, death and burial locations of five of them may forever remain unknown unless somewhere there's a family Bible.  James E. Day is recorded as being the second Caucasian male child born in Hancock County, and the first child born to settlers in the Fountain Green Township area.

John and Sabina were the beneficiaries of near miraculous good fortune in one very important facet: five sons went off to war, five returned: James, 6' tall, sandy hair, gray eyes; Miles, 5'11", brown hair, gray eyes; John, 6'4", sandy hair, gray eyes; Hezekiah, 6' 1 1/2", dark hair, blue eyes; Clement (at 16), 5' 7", light hair, blue eyes.  During our several years spent tracing families in the general area of Fountain Green, we've not found another family who had as many sons in the service of their country.

The known children born in Hancock County, Illinois, were:

i.	James Edward Day, born August 16, 1831, died March 26, 1901, burial at Majorville Cemetery.
ii.	Miles H. Day, born in 1833.  He died February 22, 1912, in Sierra County, New Mexico.
iii.	John P. Day, born March 12, 1835, died December 10, 1911, probably in Woodward County, Oklahoma, and was buried there at Nixon Cemetery.
iv.	Hezekiah Day, born in 1843, died in 1925, probably in Penn Township, Woodward County, Oklahoma.  Burial at Bullion Cemetery, Adair County, Missouri.
v.	Sarah Frances Day, born about March 25, 1847*, died December 9, 1866.  She is buried at Majorville Cemetery.
vi.	Clement Day, born in 1849, died in 1930, buried at Highland Cemetery, Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas.
* Birth date calculated from tombstone inscription.

John Day died January 3, 1866, at the age of 69 years, 8 months and 25 days.  Sabina Logston Day, a charter member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died in 1887 at the age of 80 years, 9 months and 17 days.

Household of James Lincoln, line 25
males 5 thru 9 - 1
males 15 thru 19 - 1
males 30 thru 39 - 1
females 0 thru 4 - 2
females 5 thru 9 - 1
females 30 thru 39 - 1

Household of John Day, line 26
males 0 thru 4 - 1
males 30 thru 39 - 1
females 20 thru 29 - 1

Household of John Day
males 0 thru 4 - 2
males 5 thru 9 - 1
males 10 thru 14 - 1
males 40 thru 49 - 1
females 30 thru 39 - 1
Total - 6
Persons employed in agriculture - 2

John Day, 54, male, farmer, value of real estate 1000, born KY
Sibbina, 44, female, born KY
James E, 19, male, laborer, born IL, attended school within the year
Miles H, 17, male, laborer, born IL, attended school within the year
John, 15, male, born IL, attended school within the year
Hezechiah, 9, male, born IL, attended school within the year
Sarah F, 4, female, born IL
Clement, 2, male, born IL
Sarah Logston, 65, female, born MD

John Day, 64, male, farmer, value of real estate 3000, value of personal estate 900, born KY
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Sabina Day, 54, female, born KY
John, 21, male, farmer, born IL
James, 17, male, farmer, born IL, attended school within the year
Clement, 11, male, born IL, attended school within the year
Francis, 13, female, born IL, attended school within the year

Day, Sibina, 60, female, white, keeping house, value of real estate 3000, value of personal estate 100, born KY
Clement, 21, male, white, farmer, value of personal estate 100, born IL, male citizen of the U.S. aged 21 or more
Lovina, 20, female, white, born VA
Seth, 1, male, born IL
Amanda, 1/12, female, white, born in IL, born in May

Day, James E, white, male, 49, married, farmer, born IL, both parents born KY
Mary M, white, female, 47, wife, married, keeping house, born PA, both parents born PA
Sabina, white, female, 74, mother, widow, at home, could not read or write, born KY, both parents born MD
Minnie M, white, female, 116, daughter, single, at home, attended school within the year, born IL, father born IL, mother born PA
Gosnell, Eddie, white, male, 16, nephew, single, at home, attended school within the year, born IL, father born OH, mother born IL