DAY Second Generation: Family of Ira Martin DAY and Mary Agnes Connell

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First Generation: Ira Reese DAY and Ruth C Dunn (not listed)

DAY Third Generation: Family of Ira DAY and Ellen GORMAN

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Woman stood guard with Garden Hose as she refuses to allow painters to work!

My great-uncle, Halstead J. Day and two others were caught in a battle with Mrs. Whitford over painting of her neighbor's house.

A garden hose was her weapon!

 

A heartfelt words of sympathy from George Washington to Mrs. Stephen Day

 From A Brief history of Chatham Morris County, New Jersey by Charles A.  Philhower - pg.  21. 

After the battle of Springfield, General Washington on his return to Morristown sent word ahead to Mrs. Stephen Day (2nd wife of Captain Stephen DAY) that he would stop off to see her on his way through Chatham.  Accordingly, Mrs. Day dressed herself in a fine black silk gown with a large white scarf about her neck and awaited the coming of her distinguished visitor.  A small mahogany table

(Not the Caldwell attack.)
Battle of Long Island, an 1858 painting
 by Alonzo Chappel

was placed on the lawn in front of the house, and a pleasing repast was prepared for the General.  The call was made and heartfelt words of sympathy were extended to Mrs. Day in behalf of the horrible murder of her sister Hannah (Ogden) Caldwell at Connecticut Farms.  Much appreciation was shown by the General for her hospitality and often afterword's it is said the Washington called at the Day Mansion.  Captain Stephen Day, the husband of Mrs. Jeremiah Ogden Day was on of the staunchest patriots.  He was justice of the peace under both the British and Continental rule, served in the army, and was on of the first to aid the Continentals when requisitions for supplies were made.  It is said the he gave a whole beef when the first call was issued.  

Historic Stephen Day House c. 1936

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Captain Stephen Day was my 5th Great-uncle.  -Jan

Born about 1733 in Newark, Essex, New JerseySon of  Joseph Day and Hannah Sargeant Day. Stephen Day commanded a company under Colonel Ford, Eastern Battalion, Morris County, New Jersey Militia, at the Battle of Springfield, Union Co., New Jersey, June 23, 1780.  This was one of the last major engagement of the Revolutionary War in the North and it effectively put an end to the British "ambitions" in New Jersey.  General Washington praised the New Jersey Militia in this battle, writing later, "They flew to arms universally and acted with a spirit equal to anything I have seen in the course of the war."  

Hannah (Ogden) Caldwell.  Hannah, wife of Rev.  James CALDWELL & daughter of John OGDEN of Newark, was killed at Connecticut Farms by a shot from a British soldier, 25 Jun 1780. 

Recognized by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) as a female patriot. 

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Grave Inscription 

"was killed at Connecticut Farms by a shot from a British Soldier.  Cruelly sacrificed by the enemies of her husband and her country" 

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Biography: Ira Reese DAY, Junor

Ike as Santa about
 1960 Prospect Park

 Ike was named after my father,  Ira Reese Day.  Ike was 13 pounds at birth. He was called Junior until he was 4, then they decide to call him Ike after President Dwight (I like Ike, was the saying ) Eisenhower. When I was five my father was asking the rest of us kids what we wanted to be when we grew

up.  Ike was three and he immediately started barking and said I want to be a dog.  At that time we lived in a house off a cemetery. I'm mother took Ike and the youngest brother for a walk in the cemetery in the dead end we lived on. Flags were on veterans graves. Ike was walking behind her plucking out the flags to wave. Mom had to ran around finding the graves and putting the flags back.

Ike Grad-Eastside High School 

We lived in Prospect Park New Jersey, a small community for some time that was adjacent to of Paterson new jersey, for about 7 years.  It was a Dutch community at the time and we were supposedly Irish so we thought, and weren't really accepted there.  Though now we know we had as much as they did.  My mother would get hang up phone calls in calls calling her names.  She always suspected The neighbors but I suspected it was my father's mother's friend old friend.  There was a small grocery store and butcher shop in the '50s and '60s on our block in prospect Park and my mother had an account there she would pay it weekly. 

One day Ike, age 5 or 6, not knowing you had to pay for things in store went into the corner store and told a candy bar and went on his very way.  The man called my mother and she said, sorry, just put it on our bill, thank you. 

Years later and after his parents died, his dad in June 1970 and his mom a year and a half later, Ike was orphaned at age 17 and lived in the YMCA, then with his closest friend, Tom G and his family. 

Ike went into the Navy. There was some high jinks with some friends one day and the police got involved and instead of going to jail the police drove him to the recruiting station where he enlisted in the Navy.  He much of his time on the USS Lyndsay McCormick (a battle ship) for about 4 years. After he got out,  for  a time he live with me, sometimes with Tom's family and sometime with his young brother and his wife in New York. He worked fixing cameras and as a letter carrier in the Post Office, Paterson, NJ. He along with Tom and his wife, Elaine, bought a house on 8th Street in Paterson. Ike finally received his college degree in history and Post Office a Postmaster. After his death, the family learned he would have gotten that promotion.

  I was working full-time and living next door to my mother-in-law during this time.  I wouldn't have lived there if I could have afford it somewhere else but it was a cheap place to live because it was lower middle class area.  My husband, Bud, a childhood name, as he was call was living in Pennsylvania with his aunt Lena, his mother's sister, while he interned at Temple University to be a nuclear medical technologist.  I always wanted to play the piano and Ike knew this and he wrote me a letter and said he was sending money for me to buy a piano.

Ike, and his friends Tom and Elaine had bought 2 houses together. One was on 8th Street Paterson.

It was a run down house but it was theirs. The other house was in Upstate New York and not in any better condition than the other one. 

Fortunately the property wasn't worth much with the house in less than livable condition. Heart disease in my family. Our Dad died at 49, and Ike died at 35 from a heart attack. We all care about Ike and he would tell us things that we felt were symptoms. He promise us all he was.  After he died, Tom and Elaine who lived up stairs in a house the three of them bought together told us Ike did not take care of himself. He would just tell us that. Ike would say I know I'll die young. Ike died on August 8, 1989. He was 35.

Biography: My sister, Doris Day on The Gary Moore Show in 1959

Doris was the daughter of Ira Reese Day, an accountant for Curtis-Wrights Aeronautics 

Ind., and Ruth Catherine Dunn.  Her siblings were L Day, J Day, Ira (Ike) Reese Day, Jr, and D Day.  The family lived in and around the Paterson, New Jersey area.

When Doris as 11, my mother got a phone call for a kid who had got to school with my older sister.  She couldn't understand what he was saying, something about could Doris be on TV.  My mother thought it was a hoax and hung up.  Then a man called a few more times and she would hang up again.  Well, about an hour later Gary Moore called himself.  He started the conversation with "Don't hang up, Mrs. Day.  I'm really Gary Moore and we would like your daughter to take the place of the actress, Doris Day who is sick." That got her attention.  The father of the boy who called earlier, was a camera man on the show.  Hearing of the shows' dilemma the son told of a former classmate having a sister with that name.  So from there that started the ball rolling, and the phone calls were made.  My father drove Doris to New York City to make her star appearance.  For her performance, Doris got a Schwinn bike, $500 and a case of Winston cigarettes, for my father to smoke.   Watch the episode of the show at: https://youtu.be/XtnBPiYNmAg

 

                                       Doris and her daughter, Chris at a Renaissance Fair about 1987.

Doris passed away on the 26 Nov 2017. She leaves behind a daughter, C.  Winterberg whom Doris said was her best friend and the light of her life.   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/257793229/doris-ann-day

New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-1903 

View record Name  • Doris  DAY  Winterberg. Age  • 68. Birth Date  • 9 Jan 1949. Birth Place  • Paterson, New Jersey, USA. Death Date  • 24 Nov 2017. Death Place  • New Jersey, USA.
Source information: Title : New Jersey, Death Index, 1901-1903. 2016 Publisher location 
Lehi, UT, USA .