Rock Island County IL Archives Obituaries.....Day, Anna March 2, 1864 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/il/ilfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Donald Buncie http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008389 May 6, 2023, 1:46 am Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.): March 23, 1864 Died near Port Byron, Rock Island County, Illinois, on March 2d, 1864, of lung fever, Mrs. Anna Day, wife of Abraham Day, aged fifty- two years. Mrs. Day was the child of pious parents, and was dedicated to God by baptism in her infancy. Her father, Mr. James Plumer, was a Ruling Elder of Glade Run church, in Butler County, Pa., in which church she spent her childhood and youth under the ministry of Rev. Reed Bracken. Her religious training was careful and thorough. The pious teaching, example, and prayers of her parents and her minister were not in vain in the Lord, for she early gave her heart to God; and shortly after her marriage to Mr. Day, in her eighteenth year, she made a public profession of her faith in Christ, in the church of Bull Creek, then under the pastoral care of Rev. Abraham Boyd. From the time of her connection with the church until her death, she bore testimony to the excellency of the religion of Christ… She was a faithful and devoted wife, a tender-hearted and prudent mother, and a kind and obliging neighbor... File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/il/rockisland/obits/d/day1230gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ilfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb