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In researching “Bartholomew Day,” the singular difficulty is that
search engines confuse that name a million times over with the
“St. Bartholomew Day Massacre” of French Protestants by French
Catholics in 1572.
When John T. Day, Senior, died April 17, 1888, the farmland
went to Catherine Dorsey Day as a life estate, and then to Bar-
tholomew, Junior, and Mary Lynch Day. In short, Bartholomew
Day, Junior, from Tipperary (May 20, 1829-September 6, 1903)
married (c. 1870) Mary Lynch from County Waterford (1848-
1925), and they became the parents of five sons and two daughters
including their first-born Mary Katharine Day who died a few days
after birth. Their surviving children were:
1. Judge John T. Day, Junior (1872-1942), their second-born,
who married schoolteacher Addie Fowler in 1904, and had four
children: Mary Day Roth, Loretta Day Ritter, Catherine Felice
Day Hagen (who was a look-alike for Virginia Day Fritscher), and
Judge John William Day;
2. James Day (1875-1951), the licensed engineer and steamboat
captain who, taking after his (drowned) sailor grandfather, success-
fully took a flat-bottomed steamboat ballasted for ocean travel down
the Mississippi through the Gulf of Mexico to Portland, Oregon,
and, in a marriage cut short by his wife’s death, was the father of
one child, Howard Day, a Middleweight Boxing Champion of the
Navy in the 1920s; James Day was, according to Mary Pearl Lawler
Day, a look-alike for her grandson John (Jack) Fritscher;
3. Margaret (Mag) Day (1878-1938), named for her Tyrrell
grandmother, who married Casper Joseph Stelbrink in 1900 and
had two children: Joseph and the never-married postmaster Cecelia;
4. Thomas Day (1880-1945) who moved west as a bronco-
buster around 1900 and settled in Portland where he married and
worked in the shipyards, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery
in Oregon next to his wife Anna Etta Mackey, daughter of John
Mackey and Pluma St. Ores, with whom he had one child: Margaret