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The Carthage Republican
Carthage, Illinois
Wednesday
January 15, 1941
Page 8
Column 2

JOHN W. DAY DIES
NEAR MAJORVILLE MONDAY

John William Day of Majorville neighborhood, died at 1:30 o'clock Monday morning, Jan. 13, at the St. Francis hospital in Macomb, after a month's illness of uremia.

Funeral services will be held at the Majorville church Wednesday afternoon at 1:30.  Burial will be in Majorville cemetery.

Mr. Day was born March 24, 1858, in Fountain Green, a son of James and Margaret Callahan Day.  He was married to Ella F. Yetter, who died Nov. 22, 1934.

Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Ruby Hobart, Carthage; Lawrence Y. Day, Colchester; Charles Day, Arnold, Kans., and James Day, Colchester.  A daughter, Mable Day Campbell, died in 1939.  Surviving also are nine grandchildren.