Jesse Day

DAY, HIGGINBOTHAM

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 1/8/2021 at 08:23:08

Columbus Gazette, Columbus Junction, Iowa
Wednesday, February 7, 1894
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Our community was shocked Saturday to learn of the death of Jesse Day of Union township. Only a short while before he was seen on our streets seemingly as sound in health as ever and few knew of his sickness until they learned of his death. His sickness was pneumonia and he was afflicted with it only a few days until a fatal termination. Mr. Day was a comparatively young man, having been born in Concord township in 1860. This made him only thirty four years old at the time of his death. Oct 17, 1887 he was untied in marriage to Miss Mary J. Higginbotham who with three of the four children born to them, survives to mourn a great loss. Mr. Day was a generous, kind hearted man an excellent neighbor and a kind husband and father. He was in all respects a good citizen and a number one man, thought not a church member. The funeral was from Pleasant Grove Bethel, Sunday, February 4, at 11 o'clock. The services were conducted by Elder George Stone.