 1848 - 1925 (76 years)
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| Name |
Alfred L. Day |
| Born |
24 Jul 1848 |
Friendsville, Rush Township, Susquehanna County, PA  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
30 May 1925 |
Forest Lake, Susquehanna County, PA [1] |
| Buried |
1 Jun 1925 |
Birchardville, Susquehanna County, PA [2] |
| Person ID |
I22961 |
Day Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
27 Oct 1995 |
| Father |
Erastus M. Day, b. 29 Jun 1820, Forest Lake, Susquehanna County, PA , d. 21 Apr 1899, Forest Lake, Susquehanna County, PA (Age 78 years) |
| Mother |
Eunice Howe, b. Abt 1830, Pennsylvania , d. Abt 1874 (Age ~ 44 years) |
| Family ID |
F8703 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Vielda Permelia Sleeper, b. 12 Sep 1856, Warren Center, Bradford Township, PA , d. 9 Jul 1924, Scranton Hospital, Scranton, PA (Age 67 years) |
| Married |
3 Oct 1888 [3] |
| Children |
| | 1. Berton Frink, b. 12 Mar 1894, East Bridgewater, Beaver County, PA , d. 18 Dec 1951, Coleridge, Cedar County, NE (Age 57 years) |
| | 2. George Delbert Day, b. 26 Jul 1896, North Bridgewater, Bucks County, PA , d. 11 Oct 1971, Forest Lake, Susquehanna County, PA (Age 75 years) |
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| Family ID |
F8711 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Alfred L. Day was called "Al" and was a farmer at Forest Lake, PA.
In the 1880 census for Forest Lake, Susquehanna County, PA, he is
shown as living at home with his father and step-mother, and
working in a saw mill (probably his father's). According to his
daughter-in-law, Pauline Alice Seiber, Alfred was a farmer all his
life. She remembered that Alfred and Vielda were: "very nice quiet
people and that they never went any place. They always stayed at
home and worked. They always had a very good garden. Vielda and
the children always attended the Methodist Church. Vielda liked to
sew. She was a seamstress before she was married. She made suits
and dresses. In winter time she was always making quilts. She was
easy going. She was a nice person. Alfred was a clown. He was
always a cut-up. He was always joking and dancing around when
visitors would come. Everyone liked him. He used to embarass
George Delbert Day because he would dance and clown around when
people came in." Vielda, as remembered by Pauline, "had a tipped
uterus way down... one day she could not urinate. The doctors
would come out to her house to see her two or three times a day.
She had to wear a pessary." About one year before she died she had
a hysterectomy. Before her death she became very weak and couldn't
go up and down stairs. She slept downstairs at the home of George
and Pauline. She finally went to the hospital and was there about
one month before she died. The undertaker's bill was $342 for
embalming and he charged $50 for bringing the body to their home.
The body remained at the home of George and Pauline for two or
three days for visitation before being taken to the church for a
service and then being buried in the church yard.
Kept by the family is the following hand written post card mailed
from Oyster Bay, NY and addressed to:
A. Day
Montrose #5
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
Oyster Bay Oct 29th 1914
Dear Sir;
I was writing to ask you personally for your support of
Gifford Pinchot against Boris Penrose.
Penrose stands in public life for all those forces of evil
against which every clean and decent citizen should ?? mind.
Penchot is the only man who can beat Penrose.
I ask your help for Pinchot and for the other men on the
Washington party ticket. They are fighting this year for the same
things for which we fought in 1912.
Sincerely yours,
(signed)
Theodore Roosevelt
Alfred developed gangrene of one of his feet before he died, but
was "too old to have an operation and have it off." He was not ill
too long before he died. His knees and legs swelled up and water
oozed from his legs. Pauline would bathe him put cold cloths
around his legs. He died at 2:00 PM on 30-May-1925 at his home at
Forest Lake, PA of Bright's Disease after a three week illness
attended to by Dr. Preston of Montrose, PA. The undertaker was Mr.
Ball of Birchardville, PA. His undertaking fee was $150.
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| Sources |
- [S16] Robert N. Arrol, MD, 49 (Reliability: 3).
- [S16] Robert N. Arrol, MD, 51 (Reliability: 3).
- [S16] Robert N. Arrol, MD, 50 (Reliability: 3).
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