Day Family

This is going to be the start page for my Day family.  What I know so far is that there was a Comfort Day who married Betsy Albee, the daughter of Zuriel Albee.  I know Comfort was the son of Comfort Day and Velonia Esther Paine, who were married in, I believe,  March 1, 1775 in Mansfield, Bristol County, Massachusetts.  There was most likely more than just one child born to them but I have not found that data yet.

Comfort and Betsy had a son named Erasmus.  Erasmus was married first to Philena Mason.  Now the Masons have a large genealogy database that helped a lot in my searching.

Here is a family group record from my genealogy program.  The first group sheet is with Erasmus and his first wife, he was married twice and his second wife was Maria K. Rowland.  I have seen her name spelled another way, but this is the spelling I have chosen to use unless I find actual documentation showing it otherwise.  Now I have listed William Harrison Day as a child of this marriage until also proven otherwise.  I have not been able to locate his birth record as during the time he was born there are no documented records. . . at least they returned my money.  Most places don't, it is called a search fee.


Family Group Sheet #1

Name:            Erasmus DAY

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Birth:            10 Dec 1796            New Hampshire

Death:            24 Feb 1843            Fever River, Iowa Co., Wisconsin Territory

Father:            Comfort DAY

Mother:            Betsy Albee (1779-)

Other Spouses:            Maria Rowland

Marriage:            25 Dec 1817            Grafton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire

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Spouse:            Philena Mason

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Birth:            21 Mar 1799            Grafton, Grafton Co., New Hampshire

Death:            21 Dec 1835            Illinois/Wisconsin Territory

Father:            Perez Mason (1747-1825)

Mother:            Martha Barney (1754-)

 

Children:

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1 F:            Eliza DAY

Birth:            29 Jul 1818

Spouse:            William F. GEAR

Marriage:            29 Dec 1836            Jo Daviess Co., Illinois

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2 M:            James M. DAY

Birth:            9 Sep 1819

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3 M:            Holland Boone DAY

Birth:            19 Nov 1821

Spouse:            Catherine Ross

Marriage:            9 Aug 1842            Wisconsin

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4 F:            Experience Anne DAY

Birth:            30 Oct 1823

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5 M:            Erasmus A. DAY

Birth:            21 Jul 1827



Family Group Sheet #2

(Second Wife)


 

Name:            Erasmus DAY

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Birth:            10 Dec 1796            New Hampshire

Death:            24 Feb 1843            Fever River, Iowa Co., Wisconsin Territory

Father:            Comfort DAY

Mother:            Betsy Albee (1779-)

Other Spouses:            Philena Mason

Marriage:            24 Nov 1836            Iowa County, Wisconsin

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Spouse:            Maria K. Rowland

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Birth:                  Kentucky

 

Children:

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1 M:            William Harrison DAY

Birth:            23 Sep 1843            Illinois

Death:            24 Jan 1916            Whitten, Hardin County, Iowa

Spouse:            Sarah Mariah Raine

Marriage:            25 Nov 1865            Hazlegreen, Grant Co., Wisconsin

 


I show that William was born in 1843 and Philena Mason died in 1835.  Erasmus remarried in 1836 to Maria Rowland and that  he died before William was born. I have learned too, that he worked in the lead mines and also homesteaded land in Wisconsin or the Wisconsin Territory.  I have located three documents showing homesteads or land purchases for Erasmus Day in Wisconsin.