John Day
Lunenburg Co., Va
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1 John Day
Birth:8 Jun 1760, Lunenburg Co., VA
Death: 16 Jul 1837, Caney Creek, Morgan Co, Kentucky
Notes for JOHN DAY:
John served as private and a "spy" (scout) during the Revolutionary War from 1776 to 1781.
John and his family moved to Floyd (now Morgan) County, Kentucky about1810.
John Day, was born June 28, 1760, in Lunenburg county, Virginia,and died on July 16, 1837,
in Morgan county,Kentucky He served throughout the Revolution,
enlisting first in October,1776, when only sixteen years of
age, and being mustered out for the last time in September,
1781. He served under Colonels Joseph Cloyd, William Preston
and others and took part in a number of engagements with the
British and Tories in his section. The last three years he
served as spy(scout) or Indian ranger, which speaks well for the
woodcraft and discretion possessed by a boy of nineteen. Before
the Revolution his family suffered, on one of the inroads of the
Shawnee Indians, a terrible massacre, several of them being
killed or captured. This made such an impression that the story
has been handed down to the present day generation.
Source:
HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS, E. Polk Johnson, three volumes,
Lewis Publishing Co., New York & Chicago, 1912. Common version,
Vol. III, pp. 1291-92. [Clark County]
Spouse: Rebecca Howe
Birth: 10 Oct 1765, Hampshire County, Virginia
Death: 27 Mar 1856, Morgan Co, Kentucky
Father: Joseph Howe (1729-1790)
Mother: Eleanor Dunbar (1730-1790)
Marr: 10 Sep 1782, Montgomery County, VA. now Pulaski Co.
Children: Joseph (1783-)
Daniel (1785-1825)
William (1787-)
John (1790-)
Elizabeth (1792-)
Allen Taylor (1796-1865)
Anna (1799-)
Jesse (1802-1883)
1.1 Joseph Day
Birth: 23 Jun 1783, Montgomery Co., Virginia
Spouse: Ronda Cox
Birth: Carroll County, Virginia
Death: 16 Aug 1837, Carroll County, Virginia
1.2 Daniel Day
Birth: 5 Jul 1785, Montgomery Co., Virginia
Death: 1825, near Edwardsville, ILL.
Children: Rebecca Howe DAY b: 1807
Mary DAY
Archibald DAY b: 2 SEP 1813
Allen DAY b: 1816
Elizabeth DAY
Louisa DAY
Daniel , Jr. DAY
John DAY
Spouse: Ronda Hoskins
Birth: 24 Apr 1785, Tenn.
Death: 25 Aug 1893, Bracken, Ky.
Marr: 11 Sep 1805, Tazewell County, VA
Children: Archibald (1813-1903)
1.2.1 Archibald Day
Birth: 2 Sep 1813
Death: 22 Jul 1903
Spouse: Sarah Ann Cox
Birth: 6 Dec 1824
Marr: 10 Mar 1846
Children: B. F. (1846-)
1.2.1.1 B. F. Day
Birth- 6 Dec 1846
1.3 William Day
Birth: 23 Sep 1787
William and his family moved to Tennessee.
Spouse: Mary Anne Estill
Birth: Madison Co., Ky
1.4 John Day
Birth: 25 Jan 1790
John served in the War of 1812. He and his family moved to Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio.
Children: Allen DAY b: in Ironton, OH
Wingate DAY b: in Ironton, OH
Spouse: Rebecca Lyons
Marr: 9 Jan 1814, Floyd County Kentucky
Children: Allen
Wingate
1.4.1 Allen Day
1.4.2 Wingate Day
1.5 Elizabeth Day
Birth: 22 Oct 1792
Elizabeth and her family moved to Tennessee.
Spouse: John Jarmon Jarmoth
1.6 Allen Taylor Day
Birth: 21 Nov 1796, Montgomery County, Virginia
Death: 1865, Yocum, Morgan County, Kentucky
Children: John Day
Allen Taylor Day
Jesse P. Day
Malinda Jane Day Howerton
Cordelia Alice Howerton Lawhorn
Mabel Lawhorn Berry
Spouse: Mary Polly Ellington
Birth: 1802
Death: 1876, Rowan Co. Ky.
Father: David Ellington
Mother: Dorothy Thatcher
Marr: 21 Jan 1819
1.7 Anna Day
Birth: 3 Mar 1799, Virginia
Death: Missouri
Spouse: James Gilmore
Marr: 5 Feb 1818, Floyd County , Kentucky
* Jane Gilmore
m. George W Oldfield
* Mary Anne Oldfield
m. Joshua Debusk
* George Gilmore
* Oldfield Gilmore
1.8 Jesse Day
Birth: 13 Jan 1802, New River, Va.
Death: 21 Apr 1883, Morgan Co, Kentucky
1850 Morgan County Census HH # 0716
visited
on Sep 10, 1850 Relation
Occupation Stated
Age Sex Born
in Birth
date Marriage
date Died
-1- =Day Jesse Farm Owner 48 Male VA N/A N/A N/A
-2- *Caskey-Day Margaret "Peggy" Wife Keeps house 45 Female KY
N/A N/A N/A
-3- Day John W. Son 17 Male KY N/A N/A N/A
-4- Day Cyntha Daughter 15 Female KY N/A N/A N/A
-5- Day Allen Son 13 Male KY N/A N/A N/A
-6- Day Ellenor Daughter 9 Female KY N/A N/A N/A
-7- Day Trumbo Son 4 Male KY N/A N/A N/A
-8- (Day) Rebecca Mother 85 Female VA N/A N/A N/A
Harley's
Note: In 1840 Rebecca Day was receiving a Revolutionary War Pension. She lived in home of Jesse Day, her son.
Spouse: Margaret (Peggy) Caskey
Birth: 22 Dec 1804, Floyd Co, Kentucky
Death: 1884, Morgan Co, Kentucky
Father: Thomas Caskey (1766-1853)
Mother: Lydia Hopkins (1775-1850)
Marr: 24 Aug 1820, Floyd County , Kentucky
Children: William (1821-1884)
Robert (1822-)
Rebecca Jane (1824-)
Lydia (1826-)
Elizabeth (1829-)
John Washington (1832-)
Cynthia Ann (1834-)
Allen T (1837-)
Eleanor (1841-)
Trubo (1845-)
1.8.1a William Day*
Birth: 19 Aug 1821, Morgan Co, Kentucky
Death: 28 Jan 1884, Breathitt Co., Ky
William was reared on a farm in Morgan Co. and educated at
private schools. He bought land, most of which was virgin forest.
Here he lived and followed farming until his death, at
which he owned ten thousand acres of timber land. In 1859 he
was elected to the legislature of his state on the Democratic
ticket and served one term. He did not enlist in the war but
kept horses and pilots on his place and would send parties who
wished to get through to join the Confederate Army safely
across the mountains into Virginia and Tennessee, where they
could achieve their purposes. He was also a merchant and his
store and firm was destroyed and robbed several times by
Northern troops and sympathizers, on which account he was
obliged to leave the country and did not dare return until
1866, after the ware ended.
He was successful in whatever he undertook, farming, stock-
raising, merchandising, and lumbering.
Spouse: Phoebe Eleanor (Ellen) Gibbs
Birth: 30 Jan 1825, Breathitt Co., Ky.
Death: 11 Jun 1862, Frozen Creek, Kentucky
Father: Nathan Gibbs (1793-1882)
Mother: Nancy Jane Lipps (1797-1867)
Marr: 14 Jun 1844, Morgan Co, Kentucky
Children: Nathan Boone (1845-1899)
Margaret (1849-1890)
Nancy Jane (1851-1854)
Lucinda Caroline (1852-1855)
Mary Elizabeth
Floyd (1854-1936)
William
Jessie Taylor (1844-)
John C.. Mason (1859-1915)
1.8.1a.1a Nathan Boone Day*
Birth: 27 Jan 1845, Frozen Creek, Ky
Death: 28 Jul 1899
Occ: Judge
Educ: Private schools
Dicky Diary page 96.
Nov.18, 1882. ³I dined that day at Nathan Dayıs on white Oak.
He was a prominent citizen, had been Superintendent of school
and was afterwards elected county judge. His wife was Miss
Cope, daughter of Captain A.C. Cope. The Copeıs and the Dayıs
were among the best families in the county.²
Captain Bill's January Raid
By Herbert W. Spencer, Jackson, Kentucky
February 11, 1961
as told by his grandfather, an eyewitness
During the Civil War, Jackson, Kentucky, County seat of
Breathitt, in many instances, became the rendezvous of guerrilla
bands whose depredations became forerunners of the County
feuds, and thus Jackson became the capital of that inherited
cognomen, "Bloody Breathitt." Law and order was usually
that imposed by the strongest, most unscrupulous faction in the
County.
Many prominent landowners (for the most part Confederate
sympathizers) were owners of much live stock and fertile
bottoms of corn and other grain. Since there was no active
organization of those who were in sympathy with the South, at
that particular time, they became the target and easy prey of
the organized Union raiders, who invariably cried out "Rebel
Scout" as they charged upon a defenseless home. Noble wives
have from time immemorial pleaded for the lives of their men,
at the time of approaching death, however, not one man whose
name appears in the following story ever asked for quarter or
denied his allegiance or sympathy to the South, when aroused by
the blood curdling cry of "Rebel," be it night or day,
emanating from the band of Union Raiders, headed by the
notorious Captain Bill Strong.
In the following incidents I will try to show how the Civil War
and the feuds of Breathitt were inseparable. The eve of January
20,1864 was one on which burned in the minds of many
Breathitt County people and became a dark page in the history of
Breathitt during the Civil War. On this day, the Union Raiders
set out on a "Ride of Death and Destruction." Their first stop
was at the home of a very prominent Breathitt County man by the
name of Hiram Miller who lived in the upper region of the
County. There, under the direction of Captain Bill Strong,
they quickly and without ceremony killed Hiram Miller.
There was much work yet to be done by the "Union Raiders". The
night waned by long. The chilled January air and some snow
would no doubt keep the "Rebels" close to their firesides and
families.
The Union forces under the leadership of Captain "Bill" Strong
set out that night for the home of Hiram Miller. They killed
Mr. Miller and then mounted their horses and started for the
home of Sarah Haddix on Cane Creek on the North Fork of the
Kentucky River about three miles from Jackson. Here they
planned the raiding of three other Confederate homes in
Breathitt County.
Sarah Haddix hearing the plot slipped away from her house and
managed to find a small boat which she used to carry her across
the river to the home of Jesse Spencer and his wife, Elizabeth
(my great grandfather and great grandmother).
William Spencer, then about the age of 33, fled for his life
into the hills but Jesse, then over 65 years of age, preferred
to stay with his wife, rather than leave her alone, she thought
the "Raiders" would not kill an old man of 65. When Captain
Bill and his men came riding up to the Spencer home they
shouted for the Spencers to come out. Jesse and Elizabeth came
to the door and the Union Raiders searched their home looking
for William. Then they told Jesse they would kill the "Rebel
scout."
Elizabeth pleaded with Strong and his men for her husband's
life. She said that he was an old man and was not active with
either side in the war. strong insisted that Jesse Spencer was
a "Rebel Scout" so he was taken out to the fence gate, stood up
against the fence, and shot to death in the presence of his
wife.
They then drove away most of Spencer's livestock, went into the
house,split open the featherbeds with their knives, and poured
jugs of "sorghum" molasses into the "Feather ticks." Hams,
middlings, and shoulders were taken from the smokehouse. They
also destroyed what other property they could not take with
them and carried away one of Jesse Spencer's slaves.
Jesse and Elizabeth (she died four years later in 1867) were
buried on a point about 300 yards from the spot where Jesse was
killed. About 10 of his slaves are buried about 30 yards from
the Spencer graves on the same point.
It is across the North Fork of the Kentucky River at a place now
known as Wolverine in Breathitt County.
From there Captain Bill and his raiders went to "Holly" on the
Frozen reek ection of Breathitt County. Here they shot Nathan
Day but he was younger than Jesse Spencer, and he escaped into
the darkness. He didn't die but lived until 1899 when he died
in an accident at one of his sawmills.
The last home on the list was that of Jerry "Old Jerry" South.
Jerry,seeing the raiders in the distance, started to run into
the woods nearby, but a member of Captain Bill's band shot
Jerry in the leg above the knee. The shot broke his leg but
South managed to hide from the raiders in the darkness.
South was taken to the woods by some of his friends and hidden.
They also informed his wife, Caroline South, and she went to
her husband and nursed him to a partial recovery. South's
friends then decided to take him home. This was done some two
weeks later.
A sled was made ready for the trip, filled with hay for the
wounded man's bed. The creeks were the only roads then and it
was rough going. The small band planned to leave for home at
daybreak for Jerry's home.
However, the night before the intended journey home someone
informed Captain Bill and his men, and they also appeared on
the scene. They shot "Old Jerry"
to death as he lay in the sled, there with a broken leg and in
the presence of his wife, Caroline, with several balls from the
raiders striking his chest, legs, and face and head.
[Family history says that Jerry South asked only that he not be
shot in the face, so as not to upset his wife ...
if true, this last request was obviously ignored.]
Several bee gums were destroyed and the South home was savagely
ransacked before the "Union Raiders" mounted their horses and
rode away.
Many other citizens of Breathitt County were to be killed as a
result of being Confederate sympathizers, or because they
belonged to the band of raiders. So began the feuds in which
Captain "Bill" strong played a great role.
4. William "Captain Bill" Strong was born December 24, 1825, in
Clay Co, Kentucky, and died May 9, 1897, in Saldee, Breathitt
Co., Kentucky. He married Eliza Hargis (b 1837, Pike Co.,
Kentucky; d 1900), daughter of John Hargis and Nancy Weddington
( and sister to Sabrina Hargis!), on February 21, 1853, in
Breathitt Co., Kentucky.
Spouse: Elizabeth (Betty) Cope
Birth: 28 Nov 1851
Death: 13 May 1885
Father: Archibald Calloway Cope (1828-1907)
Mother: Sabina Hargis (1831-1858)
Marr: 28 Dec 1871, Breathitt Co., Ky
Children: Walter Raleigh (1873-1937)
Carl (1878->1904)
Clara (1872-)
Other spouses: Margaret Crawford
1.8.1a.1a.1 Walter Raleigh Day
Birth: 13 Oct 1873, Frozen Creek, Kentucky
Death: 24 Apr 1937, Malvern, Ark.
Burial: Oak Ridge Cemetery
Occ: lumberman, politician
Educ: Private Schools
From ³The Political Graveyard²
Day, W. R. of Malvern, Hot Spring County, Ark. Republican.
Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from
Arkansas, 1920; candidate for U.S. Representative from Arkansas
6th District, 1920. Burial location Oak Ridge Cemetery,
Malvern, Hot Springs Co., Ark.
Politicians who lived in Hot Spring County
Malvern: W. R. Day
Robert Faulkner
H. B. Means
Mrs. R. Y.Phillips
Andrew I. Roland
6th District:
1920 Nov 2: Samuel Mitchell Taylor (Dem), elected; W. R. Day (Rep),defeated
State Treasurer of Kentucky at the time Goebel was
Assassinated and Sec. of State Powersı best friend.
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 20:36:25 -0500
1900 Governor - William S. Taylor
(R)(contested)
William Goebel (D)
(assassinated)
J.C.W. Beckham (D)
Lieutenant Governor - John Marshall (contested)
J.C.W. Beckham
Secretary of State - Caleb Powers
C.B. Hill (D) (seated)
Attorney General - C.J. Pratt (R) (contested)
R.J. Breckinridge (D)
Auditor - John S. Sweeney (contested)
Gus G. Coulter (seated)
Treasurer - Walter R. Day (contested)
S.W. Hager (seated)
Superintendent of Public Instruction - John Burke (contested)
H.V.
McChesney
Agriculture Commissioner - Jno. W. Thockmorton (contested)
I.B. Nall
Clerk, Court of Appeals - Samuel J. Shackelford
Librarian - Pauline Helm Hardin
Spouse: Mattie Bush Mize
Birth: 17 Mar 1871, Irvine, Kentucky
Death: 7 Apr 1942, Malvern, Ark.
Father: Isaac Mize, Jr (1840-1898)
Mother: Edith M. Vaughn (1841-1910)
Marr: 26 Apr 1893
Children: Nathan Boone (1894-1914)
Floyd Ishmael (1897-1985)
Mary Eloise (1899-1982)
Walter Carl (1903-1934)
David Estin (1906-1994)
1.8.1a.1a.1.1 Nathan Boone Day
Birth: 31 Mar 1894
Death: 21 Nov 1914
Occ: Employed in his father's sawmill
Educ: Private schools
Reli:Methodist
³Mr. John Day of this city received a telegram Saturday stated
that the Nathan B. Day, eldest son of Walter Day, had been
killed in a mill at Malvern, Arkansas where he was employed.
No particulars were given. The burial took place Sunday
afternoon in the cemetery at that place. Mr. Dayıs untimely
death came as a great shock to his many relatives and friends
in this part of the state. In his childhood he lived near
Jackson, Breathitt County, but grew to manhood in his new home.
He was an exceptionally good boy,
very popular and a life of happiness stretched before him. A
coincidence in the death of Mr. Day is the fact that his
grandfather, Nathan B. Day, for whom he was named, met death
at his own mill several years ago. He is survived by his father
and mother (formally Miss Mattie Bush Mize) a
sister, Mary, and three brothers, Floyd, Carl and Walter, Jr.
The sympathy of relatives and friends go out to these
surviving ones. Made they find comfort in the promise for such
as he.² this newspaper article was found among Aunt Maryıs
things. The youngest brother was mistaking a identified as
being named Walter, Jr. Actually this was David E.Day Who was
born shortly before the family moved from Kentucky to
Arkansas. The second brother, known as Carl, was named Walter
Carl.
1.8.1a.1a.1.2 Floyd Ishmael Day
Birth: 29 May 1897
Death: Jul 1985
PFC USA WWI & WWII
Education:
1 year of college
Civil Occupation:
Engineering Aide (Designated Field) or Sales Clerk
Marital Status:
Divorced, without dependents
Height:
67
Weight:
159
Spouse: Helen Cantrell
1.8.1a.1a.1.3 Mary Eloise Day
Birth:4 Sep 1899, Frozen Creek ,Breathitt Co., Kentucky
Death:23 Jan 1982, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Married and divorced: Homer Goodman, no children
Goodman, Mary Day
b. Sep. 4, 1899 d. Jan. 24, 1982
Crestview Memorial Park Cemetery
Hot Springs
Arkansas, USA
1.8.1a.1a.1.4 Walter Carl Day
Birth: 24 Jul 1903
Death: 1934
1.8.1a.1a.1.5a David Estin Day*
Birth: 26 Jul 1906, Frozen Creek, Kentucky
Death: 31 Mar 1994, Edgewood, Texas
Burial: 3 Apr 1994, Oak Hill Cemetery, Edgewood Texas
Occ: wholesale foods
Educ: Private schools
Reli: Baptist
32nd degree Mason
"Oh keep my memory alive,
For if you forget me,
only then will I have surely died."
Author unknown
Spouse: Lola Pauline Abel
Birth: 23 Jan 1909, Paris, Lamar Co., Texas
Death: 30 May 1993, Houston ,Harris County, Texas
Father: Edward Lowell Abel (1872-1933)
Mother: Bessie Doyal (1886-1973)
Marr: 3 Aug 1929, Raymondville, Texas
1.8.1a.1a.2 Carl Day
Birth: 1878, Breathitt Co., Ky
Death: aft 1904, Lexington, Kentucky
1.8.1a.1a.3a Clara Day*
Birth: 1872, Breathitt Co., Ky
Spouse:John G. Hargis
Birth: 2 Apr 1869, Breathitt Co., Ky
Other spouses: John S. Hargus, Jr
1.8.1a.1a.3b Clara Day* (See above)
Spouse: John S. Hargus, Jr
Other spouses: John G. Hargis
1.8.1a.1b Nathan Boone Day* (See above)
Spouse: Margaret Crawford
Birth: 1853
Death: 1915
Marr:12 Apr 1887, Breathitt County, Ky
Other spouses: Elizabeth (Betty) Cope
1.8.1a.2 Margaret Day
Birth: 7 Jan 1849, Breathhitt Co., Ky
Death: 13 Aug 1890, Breathitt Co., Ky
1 Margaret Day b: 1849 d: 1890
+Archibald Calloway Cope b: May 10, 1828 in Frozen Creek KY d:
November 09, 1907 in Frozen Creek KY
1.8.1a.3 Nancy Jane Day
Birth: 8 Jun 1851, Frozen Creek ,Breathitt Co., Kentucky
Death: 26 Mar 1854, Frozen Creek ,Breathitt Co., Kentucky
Buried in the Day Cemetery
1.8.1a.4 Lucinda Caroline Day
Birth: 1 Apr 1852, Frozen Creek ,Breathitt Co., Kentucky
Death: 30 0ct 1855, Frozen Creek ,Breathitt Co., Kentucky
Buried in the Day Cemetery
1.8.1a.5 Mary Elizabeth Day
1.8.1a.6 Floyd Day
Birth: 18 Nov 1854, Frozen Creek ,Breathitt Co., Kentucky
Death: 11 Aug 1936, Clark County , Kentucky
1900 Breathitt County Census INDEX - City of Jackson
177. Floyd Day 12/54
Rosa Lee (Kash) 10/69 4/4 wf
Golden Day 2/87 dau
Margaret Day 8/92
Eliza Day 5/95
Baby Day dau 1/98
Spouse: Roselie Dupont Kash
Marr: 1888, Frozen Creek ,Breathitt Co., Kentucky
1.8.1a.7 William Day
1.8.1a.8 Jessie Taylor Day
Birth: 12 Dec 1844, aft.1912
the 1920 Census for Wolfe County, Kentucky, Hazel Green Precinct,
Enumeration District 235, Enumeration taken by Stanley M. Ward,
January 1920,
Household #68, lists the family of Jesse T. Day, age 73, head of
household;
Rowena
B., age 66, wife.
1.8.1a.9 John C.. Mason Day
Birth: 3 Jun 1859
Death: 18 Aug 1915, Clark Co., Kentucky
HISTORY OF KENTUCKY AND KENTUCKIANS,
E. Polk Johnson, three volumes, Lewis Publishing Co.,
New York & Chicago, 1912.
Common version, Vol. III, pp. 1291-92.
[Clark County]
JOHN C. MASON DAY is well known in business circles throughout
the state for succeeding in all of his undertakings. He and
his brothers inherited large tracts of timber land, but instead
of becoming what is known as "land poor" as so many who did the
same have become, Mr. Day has emerged a wealthy and influential
citizen. The business methods by which he has done this can
not fail to interest the commercial world. Mr. Day was born
June 3, 1859, the son of William Day, who was born in Morgan
county, Kentucky, August 21, 1821, and who died in Breathitt
county,January 28, 1884; the mother of our subject, Phoebe
Elleanor Gibbs, was born in Breathitt county, January 30, 1825,
and died June 11, 1862. 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 Caskeys 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.
Mr. Day's great-grandfather, John Day, was born June 28, 1760,
in Lunenburg county, Virginia, and died on July 16, 1837, in
Morgan county, Kentucky. He served throughout the Revolution,
enlisting first in October, 1776, when only sixteen years of
age, and being mustered out for the last time in September,
1781. He served under Colonels Joseph Cloyd, William Preston
and others and took part in a number of engagements with the
British and Torys in his section. The last three years he
served as spy or Indian ranger, which speaks well for the
woodcraft and discretion possessed by a boy of nineteen.
Before the Revolution his family suffered, on one of the
inroads of the Shawnee Indians, a terrible massacre, several of
them being killed or captured. This made such an impression
that the story has been handed down to the present day
generation. The wife of this Revolutionary hero, named Rebecca
Howe, was a woman of great force of character. She was born
October 11, 1765, in Pennsylvania, and died March 17, 1856,
while a resident of Morgan county, Kentucky.
Our subject's maternal grandfather was Nathan Gibbs, born
October 12, 1793, in Burke county, North Carolina, and died
November 12, 1882. His wife was Jane Lipps, born August 14, 1797,
and died April 24, 1867. John Gibbs, the father of Nathan,
was born in South Carolina March 3, 1755, and died March 15, 1847,
a resident of Breathitt county, Kentucky. While living
in Burke county, North Carolina, in 1780, he enlisted in the
Revolution and served three months under Capt. Clark; and in
1781 he was again called out and served several months under
Capt. John Couley. John Gibbs was a member of the Legislature
of North Carolina during the Revolutionary war and came
to Kentucky over the Cumberland Gap road bringing his household
effects on pack horses. His wife, Hannah Muchmore, was a
cousin of Daniel Boone, and was born February 8, 1757, and died
March 17, 1850. All of Mr. Day's ancestors above noted were
farmers and leading men in their time and section. William,
his father, was reared on a farm in Morgan county, and educated
at private schools. He married on the 18th of June, 1844, and
bought land, most of which was virgin forest. Here he lived
and followed farming until his death, at which time he owned
ten Thousand acres of timber land. In 1859 he was elected to
the legislature of his state on the Democratic ticket and
served one term. He did not enlist in the war but kept horses
and pilots on his place and would send parties who wished to
get through to join the Confederate army safel across the
mountains into Virginia and Tennessee, where they could achieve
their purposes.
Mr. Day was a merchant also and his store and firm was destroyed
and robbed several times by Northern troops and sympathizers, on
which account he was obliged to leave the country and did not
dare return until 1866, after the war was ended. He was
successful in whatever he undertook, farming, stock-raising,
merchandising, and lumbering.
He had nine children:
Nathan B., J.
Taylor
Margaret
Nancy Jane
Lucinda Caroline
Mary Elizabeth
Floyd
John C.M.
William. J. Taylor, FLoyd, John C.M., and William are living.
On April 16, 1863, William Day married for the second time,
Lourana Cope, the daughter of James D. Cope, and left
one child, Lewella, the wife of James Hargis of Jackson,
Kentucky. John C. M. Day was reared in Breathitt county, and
received his early education in the common schools and later
attended the Cumberland College in Virginia. Upon reaching his
majority he entered his father's store for four years, at the
end of which time he sold out and went to Jackson, the county
seat, and started the firm of Day Bros. & Co., a general
merchandise store in which he and his brother Floyd are still
interested, and in which they have build up a business of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Mr. Day and his
brother Floyd own three lumber mills, one in Breathitt county,
one at Clay City, and one at Beattyville. They also own ten
thousand acres of timber, coal and farm lands. They
have built twelve miles of railroad from Natural Bridge to
Campton, Kentucky, through some of the roughest country in the
world, and will extend it soon to Hazel Green, Kentucky; this
is the Mountain Central Railroad of which Mr. Day is vice
president and general manager. On January 1, 1899, he started
the wholesale grocery firm of White & Day in Winchester,
Kentucky, eighteen months later he bought out White then bought
out Pearson & Clark, wholesale grocers of Lexington, Kentucky,
moved his Winchester stock to Lexington, combined the two stores
and later sold his interest to W. J. Goodwin of Bryan, Goodwin
& Hunt.
Mr. Day married on January 30, 1887, Margaret McLin, who was born
at Rose Hill, Virginia, November 22, 1865. She was the daughter
of Capt. John Blair and Mary (Bales) McLin. Capt. McLin was
born at Jonesboro, Tennessee, May 1, 1833, and died July 14, 1910,
in Virginia. He enlisted in Captain Tip Willet's Company in the
19th Tennessee Infantry in the Civil war and became captain
before its close. He married on December 15, 1864,
Mary E. Bales, who was born in Lee county, Virginia, a daughter
of R.M. Bales, who is one of the best families of this section,
and she survives him, residing at Rose Hill, Virginia. Capt.
McLin was a ruling elder in Mt. Carmel Presbyterian church for
years and superintendent of the Sunday school for twenty-five
years. His early life was spent at Jonesboro, Tennessee, as a
clerk in a store, and at the close of the war he became a
merchant and farmer, in which occupations he spent the remainder
of his life. In 1883-84 he served a term in the Virginia
Legislature.
To Mr. and Mrs. John C. M. Day have been born four children,
William, Mary Eleanor, Kelly, and Catherine, all still young
enough to remain at home. They own a beautiful home in
Winchester, where they are highly respected by all who know
them. Mr. Day has been fortunate in always being able to
secure the esteem and admiration of his numerous employees.
He is recognized as one of the leading spirits in commercial and
business circles but is never so busy that he can not grant to
those who seek him the courtesy of an interview. Success in
business has not changed his kindly nature but made him a broad
minded man of kindly spirit and genial temperament. He and his
wife are members of the Presbyterian church, of which he is
also a ruling elder.
Mr. Day is the proud owner of a fine collection of guns and
hunting implements, and one of his chief delights is to run away
from business worries once each year to the wild woods, where
for a few weeks he follows the delights of hunting, the love of
which has been bred into him by a long line of ancestors skilled in the craft.
Spouse: Margaret McLin
Birth: 1865
Children: Mary E.
Kelly B.
William
Catherine
1.8.1a.9.1 Mary E. Day
1.8.1a.9.2 Kelly B. Day
1.8.1a.9.3 William Day
1.8.1a.9.4 Catherine Day
1.8.1b William Day* (See above)
Spouse: Louraney Crawford
Other spouses: Phoebe Eleanor (Ellen) Gibbs
1.8.2 Robert Day
Birth: 1822
Spouse: Eleanor McGuire
1.8.3a Rebecca Jane Day*
Birth: 1824
Spouse: James Day
Birth: 1821
Marr: 20 Aug 1841, Morgan Co, Kentucky
Other spouses: John J. Cottle
1.8.3b Rebecca Jane Day* (See above)
Spouse: John J. Cottle
Other spouses: James Day
1.8.4 Lydia Day
Birth: 1826
1.8.5 Elizabeth Day
Birth: 1829
1.8.6 John Washington Day
Birth: 1832
Spouse:Evaline Gibbs
1.8.7 Cynthia Ann Day
Birth: 1 Nov 1834
Spouse: William B. Jones
1.8.8 Allen T Day
Birth: 27 Mar 1837
Spouse: Lou Ella Cox
1.8.9 Eleanor Day
Birth:1841
1.8.10 Trubo Day
Birth:1845
