Reason S. Day married Eliza Jane Appleton.
In 1897, Eliza wrote a letter to the Commissioner of Pensions in Washington, D.C. to seek redress for her husbands desertion and living on his military pension with another wife. An email contact of mine said that she found he left Eliza Appleton and married Ida Belle Hall. In the letter, Eliza claimed that marriage was not legal since he had never divorced her.
Today, (April 22, 2018) I'm researching his other family. There are not many records available. This is what I've found so far.
Documented Information:
* Spouse: Ida Hall. A marriage record for a daughter, Martha Ellen Day, identifies Reason Day as father and Ida Hall as mother.
* Martha Ellen Day: She applied for a marriage license to be married to Earl Wesley Carter. The application was dates 14 July 1914. Information from the application is as follows: Born 23 March 1895 in Worthington, Indiana. Father was Reason Day, birthplace and occupation were unknown. Current residence was "dead." Mother was Ida Hall, birthplace unknown. Occupation was housekeeping. Current residence was "dead."
Family Tree Information:
I found three family trees that listed Reason S. Day married to Ida Belle Hall. Some of them are more complete than others, but none had access to records or sources documenting their info. Some had three children listed; one had four children listed. This is a compilation of what I found:
Children:
Margaret Day
Martha Day
Ethel Day
Gilbert Pierce
Martha Ellen Day
There is a lot of documentation about her. (See above)
Ethel Day
Ethel Day, b. 1892, married Laurence Camblin, died June 1973 in Tulsa, Oklahoma
(A message I sent to hfleagle1 who had a tree on Ancesty on 4/22/2018)
Hello,
I'm interested in the family of Reason S. Day, born 1837 in Kentucky. I see that you have his wife, Ida Belle Hall and their children. Do you have any more information about this family? I have looked through Ancestry and can't find many records.
I did find some things:
* There is a marriage record for Martha Ellen Day that lists her parents. She was born in 1895 and married Earl Wesley Carter in 1914. The marriage record said that both her mother and father were deceased. I know that Reason died in 1907, but I have no information on Ida Belle.
* Based on the info from your tree, I searched for Ethel Day married to Laurence Camblin. I found a record for Ethel Held--1900 Census. It lists her as 8 years old and says that she was adopted. The household head was William Held and his wife was Augusta. Ten years later in the 1910 census, I saw that Ethel was living as a boarder in the home of Enoch Camblin.
That is all I could find about their children.
Sincerely,
Links for the Families
1900 Federal Census for Ethel Held
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7602/4118606_00450?pid=13397077&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D7602%26h%3D13397077%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3Ddjg414%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=djg414&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true
1910 Federal Census for Ethel Held
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex&indiv=try&h=6404445
Death Certificate of Child of Ethel Held
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2272/33154_b062861-02619?pid=751234013&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db%3Dtxdeathcerts%26h%3D751234013%26indiv%3Dtry%26o_vc%3DRecord:OtherRecord%26rhSource%3D60525&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true
