Sketch of Robert Day, St. Charles County, Missouri

>From "A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri, with numerous
sketches, anecdotes, adventures, etc., relating to Early Days in 
Missouri" by William S. Bryan and Robert Rose, Published by Bryan,
Brand & Co., St. Louis Missouri, 1876.
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Robert Day, of England, emigrated to America and settled in Maryland,
where he had two sons born, Frank and Robert.  The latter died while 
a boy.  Frank moved to Wythe County, VA., where he married Mary For-
bish.  They had twelve children: Nancy, Polly, Aves, Peggy, Elizabeth,
Rebecca, Jane, Frank Jr., Nathaniel, George, Nilen and James.  Nancy
was killed by a horse.  Polly married in Kentucky, and settled in St.
Louis in 1815.  Aves died single.  Peggy married Solomon Whittles, of
St. Charles County, MO.  Jane married John Proctor, and settled in
Warren County, MO.  Frank, Nathaniel and George all died bachelors,
in Missouri.  Nilen married Susan Wilson.  James married Emily Roch-
ester, of Virginia, and settled in St. Charles County, MO., from 
whence he removed to Lincoln County, where he still resides.  When
quite a boy he and a young friend of his spent a night at Amos
Burdine's, and slep on a bed that had a buckskin tick.  During the
night they felt something very hard and uncomfortable in the bed 
under them, and determined to find out what it was.  They had no
knives to cut the tick with, so they gnawed a hole in it with their
teeth, and drew out a buck's head with the horns attached, after
which they did not wondeer that they had slept uncomfortably. During
the operation of drawing the horns out of the bed, the boys broke out
several of their front teeth.  Mr. Robert Day settled in Dog Prairie,
St. Charles County, in 1819, and spent the rest of his life there.	

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