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18 Virginia Day Fritscher
diary of his mother Virginia Day Fritscher; from the letters written
in 1993 by his first cousin once removed, Judge John W. Day; and
from research on the ground in Ireland and Calhoun County by
his first cousin John Terrence “Terry” Day, retired Senior Chief
Warrant 4 United States Army, and Terry’s grandson, Tyler Day.
Two invaluable books are: A Portrait and Biographical Album
of Pike and Calhoun Counties, Biographical Publishing Company,
Chicago: 1891, found at https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01002078//;
and The History of the Illinois River Valley, Biographical Volume
II, by John Leonard Conger and William Edgar Hull, Chicago,
S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1932 which was digitized by
the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive.org/details/historyofil-
linoi02cong pp. 298-300. Research also included Population of
the United States 1860 Census Statistics: https://www2.census.gov/
library/publications/decennial/1860/population/1860a-02.pdf
Please send corrections and additions to the author.
John (Jack) Patrick Lawler,
Father of Mary Pearl Lawler
Day, Grandfather of Virginia
Day Fritscher
Judge John T. Day, Jr., Granduncle of Virginia
Day Fritscher
