Amanda Melvina Day

1809 - 1892  (83 years)

• Name	Amanda Melvina Day
  Born	11 Feb 1809	Washington, Mason Co, Kentucky, USA
  Gender	Female
  Died	16 Apr 1892	Portsmouth, Scioto Co, Ohio, USA
  Buried	Portsmouth, Scioto Co, Ohio, USA (Greenlawn Cemetery)
  Person ID	I3619	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2009

  
  

  Family	Jacob Abner Wilhelm,   b. 5 Apr 1797, , Rockbridge Co, Virginia, USA ,   d. 21 Nov 1849, Franklin Furnace, , Ohio, USA  (Age 52 years)
  Married	3 Jan 1829	Franklin Furnace, , Ohio, USA
  Children	1. Matilda Wilhelm,   b. 19 Jan 1834, Franklin Furnace, , Ohio, USA ,   d. 8 Dec 1891,  (Age 57 years)
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2009
  Family ID	F1544	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Information on this family was kindly contributed by Bridgid Kelly bridgidckelly(at)hotmail.com Bridgid is in posession of a book put together by her great-grandfather Robert Linn Clare, son of Anna Horr and James Robert Clare. It contains biographies written by him, also letters and photographs and a xerox copy of the journal of Philip Henry Horr. Please contact her for further information. The following is the biography of Amanda Melvina Day written by Robert Linn Clare in 1942. Amanda Melvina Day She was born in Washington, Mason County, Kentucky on February 11, 1809 and according to her grandson John Wilhelm (presently living in Portsmouth, Ohio, eighty-seven years old), she was one of the "fighting days of Kentucky, rebels and slave owners" and that "she would have predominated in any station in life that she might have been called to occupy." She must have been a strong character as indicated somewhat by the attached copy of an old tintype of her. Her family moved from Kentucky to Franklin Furnace, Oho, a few miles up the Ohio River from Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. There she met and married Jacob Wilhelm on June 5, 1829. Five children were born to them; George, married Emily Carter in Lancaster, Ohio, was Captain in Union Army and won Congressional Medal of Honor. Maria married James Long, Portsmouth, called "Tute" Mathilda married Philip H. Horr, called "Tillie-Ma" Belle married Daniel White, Portsmouth. John Day married a Miss Conway. After her husband's death, November 21, 1849, she and her children moved to Portsmouth, Ohio and lived at #9 West Fourth Street, where she operated a rooming and boarding house. In 1865 she took into her home her widowed daughter, Mathilda and her four children, because of the early death of Mathilda's husband, Philip H. Horr. It became a difficult struggle for these two widows to raise Mathilda's growing family. She lived to see these four grandchildren grow to adulthood and all but one married, and she saw quite a few of her great-grandchildren. They affectionately caller her "Mehi". She died April 16, 1892 at age eighty-three, in her Portsmouth home and is buried in the Horr family plot, Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, Ohio. RLC: 1942