Thomas Mills Day (1817 - 1905)

Born 21 Nov 1817 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Jones (Dunn) Day — married 3 Dec 1851 (to 1858) in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States

Husband of Ellen Cornelia (Pomeroy) Day — married 2 Dec 1862 in Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut, United States

Died 17 Oct 1905 at age 87 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States

Biography

Thomas Mills Day, son of Thomas Day and Sarah (Coit) Day, was born on 21 November 1817 in Hartford, Connecticut. ^[1]

Thomas M. Day, age 34, a merchant, born in Hartford, Connecticut, married Anna J. Dunn, 24, born in Boston, the daughter of James C. Dunn, in Boston, Massachusetts, on 3 December 1851.^[2] They had one known child, Ellen Channing Day, born in 1852. The marriage ended in 1858, when a divorce was granted in Hartford County, Connecticut.^[3] In 1860, the U.S. Census recorded Anna Dunn and 8-year-old Nellie C. Day in Anna's parents' household in Boston.^[4]

Thomas M. Day married Ellen Cornelia Pomroy, daughter of Eleazer Pomroy of North Coventry, Connecticut, in Coventry, Connecticut on 2 December 1862.^[5]

The 1880 U.S. Census recorded Thomas M. Day at age 62, living in Hartford, Connecticut, at 11 Asylum Avenue with wife Ellen P Day, 40; children T. Mills Day, 15, Sarah C. Day, 13, Arthur P. Day, 11, and Clive H. Day, 9; and two female servants. All of the Day family members were born in Connecticut to parents born in Connecticut. Thomas had the occupation "ex-editor."^[6]

He passed away on 17 October 1905, at age 87, and is buried in Old North Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut. ^[7]

Thomas M. Day of Hartford made his will on 11 December 1878. Family members designated as heirs were his wife Ellen Pomeroy Day and children Mills, Sarah Coit, Arthur Pomroy, and Clive Hart. Bequests to the children were to be paid after each child reached age 25. He made no provisions for daughter Ellen C. Buonaparte, wife of Charles Joseph Buonaparte of Baltimore, "having already made ... advancements to her for her support, education, and for her residence and extended travel in foreign lands." He nominated his wife Ellen Pomroy Day to serve as executrix and trustee. On 10 April 1888 he added a codicil appointing son Thomas Mills Day Jr. to executor, along with his wife. A second codicil on 16 December 1896 voided the codicil of 10 April 1888. He left a very large estate. Settlement was not completed until 1940, some time after the death of Ellen Pomeroy Day.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Hartford, page 91.
2. ↑ Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Marriages, 1851. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2511/images/41262_B139019-00146
3. ↑ Smith, Mel E., compiler. Connecticut State Library History & Genealogy Unit, 2015. Index for 1798-1890 divorce judgments found in Hartford County, Superior Court civil case records. Connecticut State Library History & Genealogy Unit, 2015. Published online at https://connecticuthistoryillustrated.org/islandora/object/30002%253A21917949 or http://hdl.handle.net/11134/30002:21917949. Husband Index, page 10, citing Vol. 16, page 547. Data: Thomas M. Day and Anna J. Dunn, 1858.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBSS-WGC?cc=1473181&wc=7QGH-YY8%3A1589422209%2C1589428987%2C1589429647 : 24 March 2017), Massachusetts > Suffolk > 4th Ward Boston > image 72 of 178; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
5. ↑ U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Hartford Times, December 6, 1862 at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/853854:50015 and New Haven Columbian Register, December 13, 1862 at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/807885:50015
6. ↑ United States Census, 1880. Enumeration sheet for Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; Roll: 97; Page: 99D; Enumeration District: 006. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6742/images/4240009-00449; indexed at https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/44622991:6742
7. ↑ The Charles R. Hale Collection. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut State Library. Vol. 20A. Accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/2900/images/32971_301913-00063
8. ↑ Estate File of Thomas M. Day. In Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999. 61 pages, accessed on Ancestry.com at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9049/images/007629285_00470

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