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Ancestors
of Miles Hochstein (Great
Great Grandmother)
Marilla
(Stevens) Day
(b. 1803?, Mesopotamia, Ohio?,
d. _____? Mesopotamia, Ohio?)
WARNING
- The data on this page is speculative, and uncertain because there are a mother and a daughter both named Marilla. If you
can help me clear it up, I would love to hear what you know. This is
my best synthesis of the data available to me.
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Possibly
Granddaughter of Charles Clark (b? d.?) and Betsy (Colt) Clark
(b.? d.?).
Possibly Daughter
of Thomas Stevens and Marilla (Clark) Stevens (b. 1789?, Mespotomia,
Ohio, d. September 23, 1861 Mesopotamia, Ohio, but this might
be the death date of the daughter. Mother and daughter are both
named Marilla.)
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Data
Note - Two Marillas, Mother and Daughter
There
is a Marilla who is described in the Adele Andrews Genealogy
of 1940 as "Widow of Thomas Stevens, by whom she
had several children, probably Miriam, Marilla, Stoddard
G., Thomas, John and Elijah" (Adele Andrews Genealogy,
1940).
These
same siblings are listed in the (unverified) International
Genealogical Index (LDS site) as follows:
(1) Miriam Stevens (b. 1801 Mesopotamia, Trumbull, Ohio),
(2) Marilla Stevens (b. 1803 Mesopotamia, Trumbull,
Ohio) (our subject, or her mother)
(3) Stoddard G. Stevens (b. 1806 Mesopotamia, Trumbull,
Ohio),
(4) Thomas Stevens (b. 1808 Mesopotamia, Trumbull, Ohio),
(5) John Stevens (b. 1810 Mesopotamia, Trumbull, Ohio)
and
(6) Elijah Stevens (b. 1815 Mesopotamia, Trumbull, Ohio)
The
above is confusing because Adele Andrews (1940) appears
to confuse the mother and daughter. OUR Marilla for this
page is the daughter, Marilla (Stevens) Day born in 1803,
I believe, and not the mother Marilla Clark, born in 1789
(?), who marries Thomas Stevens and becomes Marilla (Clark)
Stevens.
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Sister
with/of (by the above reasoning, part of the following sibling
group)
(1) Miriam Stevens (b. 1801 Mesopotamia, Trumbull, Ohio),
(2) Marilla Stevens (b. 1803 Mesopotamia, Trumbull, Ohio) (HERSELF)
(3) Stoddard G. Stevens (b. 1806 Mesopotamia, Trumbull, Ohio),
(4) Thomas Stevens (b. 1808 Mesopotamia, Trumbull, Ohio),
(5) John Stevens (b. 1810 Mesopotamia, Trumbull, Ohio) and
(6) Elijah Stevens (b. 1815 Mesopotamia, Trumbull, Ohio)
Husband
of Willard Day. The
marriage of Marilla (Stevens) Day to Willard
Day. occurred on November 3, 1841. She would have been 40
years old. (Adele Andrews Genealogy, 1940)
Mother
(with Willard Day) of
(1) Helen M. (b. April 26, 1843),
(2) Laura Maria (b. August 21, 1848)
(3) Emma Kate Day (b November
24, 1850 (or 1842?) ), and
(4) George Willard Day (December 22, 1856, see photo below).
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Marilla
(Clark) Day's youngest child, the Kansas City lawyer George
Willard day, is pictured below. He would have been born
when she was 53, which is just barely possible. Data suggesting
a 53 year old woman giving birth doesn't prove that these
dates are certainly wrong. These things have happened.
George Willard Day, the youngest son of
Marilla (Stevens) Day as a middle aged lawyer in Kansas
City.
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Died
in _____
Buried
in Mesopotamia, Ohio (?).
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I
have so far found nothing about the fates of the six children from
Marilla's mother's marriage, but it is possible that one of them or
one of their children raised my grandfather G. Day Smith in Eldora
Iowa.
Two
of Marilla Day's daughters by Willard Day would eventually move to
Mitchell, South Dakota. Helen Day (above) married a Civil War veteran
named Charles Kibee.
I
speculate (without any evidence) that some years later it may have
been Helen who introduced her sister Emma
Kate Day
to a local Mitchell South Dakota real estate dealer, my great grandfather
Jacob K. Smith.
Marilla
(Clark) Day's only son by Willard Day, was named George Willard Day.
George Willard would later play a part in the life of his nephew, my
grandfather, G. Day Smith.
G. Day Smith left Eldora to stay with his uncle George W. Day in Kansas
City while completing high school classes for college admission around
1902-1903. George W. Day would also provide legal services for G. Day
Smith and Bertha's purchase
of a house around 1922.
Laura
Maria Day, the third sister, married William Belden, had three children
(Pearl, Henry, Lena), and Henry Belden married Sadie Richards in Gustavus
Ohio, June 05, 1893, and had at least one child, Nina Belden, June 18,
1895 in Burg Hill, Ohio. There my records end, for that branch.
Finally,
we have the question of just who G.
Day Smith's foster parents were. Their names are known from Day's
correspondence to have been Marrium (aka Aunt Me) and John. With the
death of Emma Kate Day, his mother, it would be natural that he would
be given to one of Emma Kate Day's relatives, but lacking descendant
information about the above individuals, I can't yet say who. At this
time I do not know who reared Emma Kate Day's son G.
Day Smith's in Eldora Iowa after her death.
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Additional
Information. The Free Dictionary offers the following on the history
of Mesopotamia Ohio. I note that among the founders of the Township
is a man named Clark. That's the maiden name of Marilla (Clark) Stevens.
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A History of Mesopotamia Township, Ohio
In 1798 Pierpont Edwards of Connecticut paid $2500.00 for the
25 square miles of wilderness in modern-day Trumbull County Ohio
that was later known as Mesopotamia Township. The following spring,
John Starke Edwards, just out of college, journeyed alone on foot,
carrying an ax and knapsack, across the Pennsylvania frontier
into the tangled forest. He cut the first tree that ever felled
by an ax upon his father's land. The fragrance which the sunshine
drew out of a rich forest floor set him agog with plans to get
a settlement started. He offered a hundred acres of free land
to the first five families to come and stay five years, and fifty
acres to the first five single men. These men were Seth Tracey,
Capt. Hezekiah Sperry, Joseph Noyles, Otis Guild, and Dr. Joseph
Clark.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Mesopotamia,+Ohio
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Could
"Dr. Joseph Clark" be the source of the Clark name above?
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