DAY, Edward W.: 1826-1903

DAY, PURDOM, DOUTHART

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Date: 10/13/2013 at 10:56:58

THE MORTURARY RECORD

The Passing of Two Old Settlers, Edward W. Day and Mrs. Sophia Frazee.

**Handwritten: 1903

Edward W. Day, departed this life about four o'clock Thursday morning Nov. 19, 1903, at the home of his son W.B. Day. For several years Mr. Day was a sufferer from hernia of the abdominal viscera which, in medical terms, frequently became strangulated causing intense pain and suffering and unless relief was speedily procured would terminate fatally, but fortunately the end came quietly and peacefully being preceded by a partial stroke of paralysis, and he went to sleep to waken no more in this world of trouble at the ripe age of seventy seven years, two months and seven days, having been born near Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 12, 1826.

Mr. Day was truly an old settler having spent nearly 60 years of his life in this vicinity coming here in 1844 and settling with his parents on the old homestead just one half mile north of where he died.

He married Miss Lucinda H. Purdom to which union four children were born, two, Albert and Charley dying in infancy and the other two Mrs. Flora Douthart and Mr. W.B. Day remaining to mourn the loss of a father and mother-the latter having died March 28, 1893, at the age of 54yrs, 6 mos., and 18 days.

The funeral sermon was preached in the M.E. church at Winchester Friday at 2 o'clock, after which interment was made in the Winchester cemetery. He will be missed from the home and the community.

**Note: I research this line of DAY lineage. Lucinda, Albert, Charles, Flora and William are all buried in Winchester Cemetery.**

~~Transcriber note: Mrs. Sophia Jackson Frazze obituary is posted separately.~~

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 280, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA