Obituary of Sarah DAY, Wife of Stephen DAY, Esq.

The following information was submitted and transcribed by Elizabeth for inclusion in the genealogy articles section for Washington Co., PA web site in May 1999. The information comes from SAMUEL ADDISON DAY'S SCRAPBOOK, the great grandfather of Elizabeth. Samuel Addison DAY (1835-1917) was the son of Samuel DAY (1793-1870) and Hannah COOPER (1798-1878) of Washington Co. Pa. J.Wiley DAY was Samuel A. DAY's brother.

Elizabeth writes:

[Source: obit in hand. Newspaper unknown.]

Died, at Sparta, Pa., January 29, 1881, Mrs. Sarah DAY. The deceased was born and brought up on what is known as the "Jolly Farm," four miles south of Washington, in Franklin township. She was born Feb. 8, 1799. She was married to the late Stephen DAY, Esq., Dec. 11, 1817.

They removed to Morris township, Greene county, in the Spring of 1818, where Mrs. DAY continued to reside until the time of her death. She had gone, some three months previous to her death, to visit at her son, Stephen DAY, in Sparta. Taken suddenly and severely ill she was not able to be removed to her home.

She was a faithful member of Upper Ten Mile church for over fifty years. She was always very highly esteemed in the community where she lived as a woman of great worth and strength of Christian character.

Piously trained herself, she took special care in the training of her children, two sons and four daughters, all earnest Christians, who remain to mourn their loss. Though Mrs. DAY was called in God's inscrutable Providence to pass through a furnace of sufferings in the last few days of her life, yet she bore it all with great patience and submission, giving the strongest testimony to the power of Jesus' grace to sustain, and his preciousness to comfort her soul.

Again and again, in her last hours, did she express the most triumphant confidence in the precious promises, and assurance that Jesus was "able to keep that which she had committed to him against that day." God grant we all may be "followers of her, who, through faith and patience, has inherited the promises" and entered upon her reward.