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MARRIED -- In Burlington, Iowa, Wednesday evening, June 5, 1912, at 8 o'clock Miss MARY GITTINGS, of LaHarpe, and CHARLES DAY, of Fountain Green, Rev. Eugene Allen officiating.
These young people quietly slipped away and were married, and went at once to the home of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Day's near Fountain Green, and it was several days before friends learned of the wedding. They were accompanied to the home of the minister by Clarence Devine, who witnessed the wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Day are graduates of the LaHarpe High School, class of 1911, and since graduating Mrs. Day taught school near Terre Haute for a term and the past winter made her home with friends in Terre Haute. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Gittings. They are worthy young people and we join in wishing them much joy.
The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Wednesday
January 12, 1944
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Column 3Charlie Day, son of John William and Ella Yetter Day was born May 19, 1890 near Fountain Green, Illinois. In 1912 he was married to Mary Jane Gittings of LaHarpe, Illinois. In the fall they moved to the vicinity of Yuma, Colorado, where they resided until 1920 at which time they moved to Arnold, Kansas. To this union were born six children, one dying in infancy, Dorothy, age 8 died in 1922, and Charles, age 20 in 1935, Mary Elizabeth, now Mrs. Herbert Van Deventer, Ensign Fay Day of the United States Naval Reserve who is in training at Harvard University and Sergeant Clarence Day in the medical corps of the United States Army, stationed near Derby, England, remain to mourn the passing of a loving father. The mother, Mary, passed away in 1924 at Christmas time. Charlie Day and Bessie Bennett were united in marriage on July 19, 1925. To this union two children were born: Clyde Duane and Gayla Fern. Also surviving the deceased are two brothers Lawrence Y. and James L. and one sister Rubie D. Hobart, all of whom are living near Majorville.
Funeral services for Charlie Day were held on January 31 at 1:30 at Majorville with Rev. Maynard of Camp Point officiating. Herbert Hulson sang "Nearer My God To Thee", and "Beautiful Isle Of Somewhere" being accompanied on the piano by his wife. Interment was at Majorville.
