1860 census of Rowan Co., Kentucky, records as family #21:
Jedediah Day, 39, farmer, blind; Cynthia Ann, 38; William, 17; David, 15; Jacob, 13; Sarah, 11; Daniel, 8; Eliza, 3; John C., 1 year. All born Kentucky. (Eliza should be Eli; probably the census taker misheard it. Toddler boys wore dresses in those days.)
1870 census of Rowan Co., Kentucky, Christy Creek precint, lists as family #16:
Day, Jedediah, 49, farmer; Cynthia, 48; William, 25, blind; David, 23, blind; Jacob, 21; Sarah, 19, blind; Daniel, 16; John, 11; Isaac, 6; Susan, 3. All born Kentucky.
1880 census of Rowan Co., Kentucky, Christy Creek precinct, lists as family #395:
Day, Jedediah, 59, farmer; Cynthia, 58, wife; William, 37, son, musician; David, 35, son, musician; Jacob, 33, son; Sarah, 30, dau; Isaac, 17, son; Susan, 13, dau. All born Ky Ky Ky.
Also living with the family are two boarders and two servants: Polly Williams, 81, boarder, widowed, Ky NC NC; Polly A. Kidd, 25, boarder, Ky Ky Ky, died this year; Ellen Davis, 19, servant, Ky Ky Ky; William Fults, 17, servant, Ky Ky Ky.
1900 census of Rowan Co., Kentucky, Hoggstown precinct, page 243A, lists as family #217:
Day, Jedediah, 79, farmer, b. Nov 1820, Ky Va Ky, widowed; William, son, fiddler, 58, b. May 1842; Thomas, Shelton, boarder, 23, b. Feb 1877; Cora, boarder's wife, 18, b. Feb 1882; Anna B., boarder's dau, 3, b. July 1896; Sherman L., boarder's son, 3/12, b. Mar 1900; McBrayer, Ollie, boarder, 15, b. June 1884, widowed, mother of 2 children, 2 living; James L., boarder's son, 1, b. Sep 1898; Lula M., boarder's dau, 5/12, born Jan 1900; Thomas, Edda (male), boarder, 18, b. Sep 1881. All born Ky Ky Ky except Jedediah. (Ollie McBrayer is Jedediah's granddaughter, so some of the other boarders may be related as well.) |
