Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Day, Daniel W. 1899
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Belding Banner, 3 Aug 1899

Daniel W. Day was born December 5, 1814, and died July 24, 1899; aged 84 years, 
7 months and 18 days.  Mr. Day was born in a small town on the banks of the St. 
Lawrence river, Canada.  About the year 1823 he came with his parents to Macomb 
county, Michigan.  In 1840, March 13, he married Miss Esther Day of Armada, 
Macomb county, Michigan.  The following children were born to them: Julia E., 
Oscar A., Loren, Emily and Lucy.  Lucy died in infancy; Oscar A. Day, of 
Belding, and Emily, now Mrs. C.J. Drummond, are the only children now living.  
Mrs. Day died January 2, 1888, since which time Mr. Day has had his home with 
his daughter, Mrs. C.J. Drummond.

In 1846 Mr. Day came to Otisco, Ionia county, and for several years was engaged 
in mercantile business, until 1870, when he moved to Greenville, transferring 
his business interests to this then growing town.  In early childhood he was 
converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which himself and 
wife were faithful and devout members until the time of their death.  Social 
and genial in his disposition, he won for himself a large place in the hearts 
of neighbors and friends.  Upright in his dealings and devoted in his Christian 
life, they had the utmost confidence in the integrity of his profession.

For the last few years the infirmities of age have been growing upon him, but 
as long as it was possible he would take his accustomed walk down the street 
that he might see once more the faces of those he loved so well; and when at 
last, he was confined to his room, the patience of a Christian, which had 
always been a characteristic of his life, seemed to be ripening into perfect 
maturity.  Such lives as his tell for righteousness.  It was the privilege of 
Mrs. Drummond, his only surviving daughter, to care for him with filial 
tenderness and devotion all through the later years of his life.

The funeral was held on Wednesday, Rev. R.S. McGregor of the Methodist 
Episcopal church officiating.  Burial at the cemetery in Otisco, where his wife 
and children are laid.


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