Rock Island County IL Archives Obituaries.....Day, Abraham  April 12, 1864
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.): May 04, 1864
Died at his residence near Port Byron, Illinois, on the 12th of April, Mr. Abraham
Day, in the 58th year of his age. Some five weeks previous, Mr. Day laid the mortal
remains of his wife in the tomb, and now he sleeps by her side They were both lovely
in their lives, and in death they could hardly be said to be divided, so short was
the interval between their departure. Their redeemed and sanctified spirits, we
trust, are now again united in the regions of the blessed. Mr. Day was a man of
great moral worth, as all can testify who were at all familiar with his daily walk.
He was both a patriot and a Christian. He took a lively interest in the struggle now
going on in our country between loyalty and treason, between liberty and slavery and
he has three sons in the army, one of whom was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga.
As a Christian, he was steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the
Lord. The worthy, intelligent, and virtuous family of children he leaves behind him,
testify to his fidelity as a parent, and, we trust, will follow the example, of him
who trained them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. After he came from
Western Pennsylvania to Illinois, he was elected a Ruling Elder, but, owing to the
weakness of the church, he and his family enjoyed, but partially the public means of
grace in their own branch of the Church, which was a grief to him and his wife, who
were both warmly attached to the doctrines and order of the Presbyterian Church, the
Church of their fathers. But they are both gone from the Church militant to join the
Church triumphant, where there are no disappointed hopes nor silent Sabbaths. Giving
his dying advice to his children he assured them of his readiness to depart and be
with Christ, which is far better; where, in the presence of God, there is fullness
of joy, and at his right hand, where there are pleasures for evermore. "Mark the
perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace”. 

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