Caroline Amelia (Wentworth) Day (1831 - aft. 1900)

Born 18 Nov 1831 in Alstead, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States

Ancestors

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Biography

Birth

Caroline Amelia Wentworth was born at Alstead, New Hampshire, on 18 Nov 1831, the daughter of Asa Wentworth Jr. and Lucy (Warren) Wentworth.^[1] In 1850, she was living with her parents at Rockingham, Vermont, at the age of 18.^[2]

Marriage

Caroline A. Wentworth married Larkin B. Day of Peoria, Illinois, on 17 Aug 1853. The 1878 Wentworth genealogy says that they were the parents of five children,^[1] but the 1900 Census says that Caroline had had six children, three of whom were then living.^[3]

Death

No record had been found of the death of Caroline (Wentworth) Day. In 1900, she was a widow living in a rooming house at Chicago, Illinois, and working as an "assistant linen roomer,"^[3] and that is the last record found of her.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} John Wentworth, The Wentworth genealogy: English and American (Boston, Mass., 1878), volume 2, page 510, which names four of Larkin and Caroline (Wentworth) Day's children
2. ↑ Caroline A. Wentworth in the Asa Wentworth Jr. family, in United States Census, 1850, database with images, FamilySearch > Vermont > Windham > Rockingham > household 27 > family 27 > image 9 of 68; citing NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Caroline A. Day in the Fannie E. Shipman household, in United States Census, 1900 database with images, FamilySearch > Illinois > Cook > ED 329 Precinct 1 Chicago city Ward 12 >household 90 > image 15 of 32; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).