Lewis Day

Generation: 1

1. Lewis Day was born in Aug 1837 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH (son of Alva O. Day and Minerva Higley).

Generation: 2

Alva O. Day was born on 5 May 1811 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH (son of Lewis Day, Jr. and Peny Deming).

Notes:

Alva was from Deerfield, OH.

Alva married Minerva Higley on 1 Dec 1831 in Portage, Wood County, OH. Minerva was born about 1815 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Minerva Higley was born about 1815 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH.

Children:

Edna Day was born on 16 Apr 1835 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH.
1. Lewis Day was born in Aug 1837 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH.

Generation: 3

Lewis Day, Jr. was born on 21 Sep 1787 in Granby, Hartford County, CT (son of Lewis Day and Sabra (Sebra) Ward); died on 26 Aug 1812 in Malden, Upper Canada (now ON), Canada.

Notes:

Lewis lived in Deerfield, OH.

Lewis married Peny Deming on 13 May 1810 in Portage, Wood County, OH. Peny was born about 1790. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Peny Deming was born about 1790.
Children:

2. Alva O. Day was born on 5 May 1811 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH.

Lewis A. Day was born on 23 Nov 1812 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH.

Generation: 4

Lewis Day was born on 19 Jul 1754 in Springfield, Hampden County, MA (son of Timothy Day and Sarah Munn); died on 17 Feb 1847 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH.

Other Events:

Baptism: 28 Jul 1754, Springfield, Hampden County, MA
_MILT: 1774; minuteman in the Revolutionary War

Notes:

Lewis was a sergeant in a MA unit during the Revolutionary War. He was a minute man in the Fall of 1774 while residing in West Springfield. On 20-Apr- 1775 he marched to Roxberry and there enlisted in Captain Enoch Chapin's company, Colonel Timothy Danielson's Massachusetts Regiment. He enlisted again in 1776 in Captain Samuel Flower's Company, Colonel Woodbridge's MA Regiment. He moved in 1778 to Granby, Hartford Co., CT. In 1780 they moved to the Northwestern Territory. He applied for a military pension 27-Aug-1832.

Lewis married Sabra (Sebra) Ward on 26 Nov 1778 in West Springfield, Hampden County, MA. Sabra (daughter of Josiah Ward and Hannah Smith) was born on 9 Jan 1755 in Springfield, Hampden County, MA; died on 25 Sep 1823 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sabra (Sebra) Ward was born on 9 Jan 1755 in Springfield, Hampden County, MA (daughter of Josiah Ward and Hannah Smith); died on 25 Sep 1823 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH.

Other Events:

Birth: 19 Jul 1755, Springfield, Hampden County, MA

Notes:

They removed to Deerfield, Portage Co. OH in the year 1800. Sabra died almost instantly from the sting of a wasp.

Children:

Horatio Day was born on 19 Jun 1779 in Granby, Hartford County, CT; died on 9 Sep 1851 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH; was buried in Deerfield cemetery, Deerfield, Portage County, OH.
Alva Day was born on 7 Feb 1781 in Granby, Hartford County, CT; died on 17 Oct 1866.
Munn Day was born on 9 Sep 1783 in Granby, Hartford County, CT; died on 26 Feb 1863 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH.
Seth Day was born on 27 Sep 1785 in Granby, Hartford County, CT; died in 1862 in Ravenna, Portage County, OH.
4. Lewis Day, Jr. was born on 21 Sep 1787 in Granby, Hartford County, CT; died on 26 Aug 1812 in Malden, Upper Canada (now ON), Canada.
Solomon Day was born on 12 Feb 1790 in Granby, Hartford County, CT; died on 4 Sep 1862 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH.
Sebra Day was born on 17 Nov 1791 in Granby, Hartford County, CT; died on 5 Sep 1793.
Sebra Day was born on 1 Jul 1794 in Deerfield, Portage County, OH; died on 1 Aug 1863; was buried in Deerfield, Portage County, OH.