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10 Virginia Day Fritscher

who, according to Judge John W. Day, “was almost an identical
look-alike for Helen Day, the daughter of Joe and Ella Day”;
5. Joseph Day (1883-1960) who was a postmaster in Hamburg
and married Addie Fowler’s sister, schoolteacher Ella Fowler (who
was also a Hamburg postmaster) in 1911, and had two children:
Helen and Joseph, Junior;
6. and the youngest, Bartholomew (Bart/Batty) Day III (1887-
1954), who married Mary Pearl Lawler from her paternal Clan Ó
Leathlobhair and from her maternal Clan MacDonnchadha in
1911, and was the father of their five children—of whom the males
died young in their fifties: including: the Catholic priest and Army
Chaplain John Bartholomew (John B. Day, 1912-1967), James T.
(1914-1968), Margaret Norine Day Chumley (1917-1996), Virginia
Claire Day Fritscher (1919-2004), and Harold Joseph (1922-1977).
In 1932, while many eyewitness fact-checkers of this genera-
tion of the Day family were still alive, John Leonard Conger and
William Edgar Hull confirmed, as sorted above, the line of descent
from Virginia’s grandfather, Bartholomew Day, Junior, in The His-
tory of the Illinois River Valley:

Bartholomew Day [Junior] served on the school and
village boards, as well as on many grand and petit juries.
He devoted his attention to farming, and was a Catholic in
his religious faith. To him and his wife were born five sons
and two daughters, namely: John T., Junior; James, who is
an engineer on the Mississippi River Improvement Service;
Mrs. Margaret Day Stelbrink, of Kampsville; Thomas, who
is employed in shipyards in Portland, Oregon; Joseph, who
is engaged in fruit raising; Bartholomew, who is a rural
mail carrier out of Kampsville, and Katherine [named after
Catherine Dorsey], who died in infancy.

Calhoun County Judge John W. Day (1919-2013), the son of
Judge John T. Day, Junior, wrote to his cousin Virginia Day Frit-
scher on August 8, 1993, that the two oldest brothers, John and