Nancy Day, 1802-1880

Nancy Day Beach with Moses Yale Beach
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

• Born:  9 July 1802 (West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts)
• Died:  12 July 1880 ( Connecticut)
• Parents:  Henry Day and Mary Ely
• Spouse:  Moses Yale Beach  md. 19 November 1819 in West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts; div. May 1852, New York)
• Children:  Drusilla Brewster Beach, Moses Sperry Beach, Henry Day Beach, Alfred Ely Beach, Joseph Perkins Beach, Eveline Sheppard Beach, Mary Ely Beach, William Yale Beach

1802 July 9
Born in West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, fourth child of Henry Day and Mary Ely  [1]

1811 October 10
Age 9
Death of father, Henry Day.  [2]

1819 November 23
Age 17
Married to Moses Yale Beach in West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts  [3]

1820 November 20 or 22
Age 18
Daughter Drusilla Brewster Beach born at Northampton, Hampden, Massachusetts [4, 5]

1822 October 5
Age 20
Son Moses Sperry Beach born at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts  [3, 4]

1824 August 8
Age 22
Son Henry Day Beach born at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts [3, 4, 6]

1826 September 1
Age 24
Son Alfred Ely Beach born at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts  [7]

1828 July 17
Age 26
Son Joseph Perkins Beach born at Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts [3, 4]

1830 July 27
Age 28
Daughter Eveline Sheppard Beach born at Saugerties, Ulster, New York [3, 4]

1830 August 18
Age 28
Death of daughter Eveline, less than one month old [3, 4]

1832 November 13
Age 30
Daughter Mary Ely Beach born at Saugerties, Ulster, New York [3, 4]

1834 August 1
Age 32
Death of daughter Mary, age 18 months [3, 4]

1836 January 7
Age 33
Son William Yale Beach born at New York, Orange, New York  [8]

1852 May
Age 49
Divorced from husband Moses Yale "on the ground of infidelity."  (He was living with second wife, Julia, in 1850 US Census.) [9]

1859 June 25
Age 56
Death of mother, Mary Ely [4, 10]

1868 July 19
Age 66
Death of husband Moses Yale Beach at Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut  [11]

1880 July 12
Age 78
Dies in Connecticut  [12]

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[1]  "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FHGN-FZC : accessed 02 Feb 2013), Mary Day in entry for Nancy Day, 09 Jul 1802; citing reference Item 2, p.75, FHL microfilm 186172.

[2]  "Massachusetts, Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FCMW-YYN : accessed 02 Feb 2013), Henry Day, 10 Oct 1811; citing reference Book 2, P 119, FHL microfilm 186172.

[3]  "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FCD6-GMT : accessed 14 Feb 2013), Moses Y. Beach and Nancy Day, 23 Nov 1819; citing reference , FHL microfilm 0496944 IT 5.

[4]  Jones, Emma C. Brewster, Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907… (New York: The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers, 1908), Vol.2, part 1, p. 732-733.

[5]  Heman Ely. Records of the descendants of Nathaniel Ely, the emigrant… (Cleveland, Ohio: Short &Forman, Printers and Stationers, 1885), 205-206.

[6]  "New York Deaths and Burials, 1795-1952," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F695-N3Y : accessed 10 Jan 2013), Henry D. Beach, 1824; citing reference Pg 25, FHL microfilm 1671687.

[7]  Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data:

"Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.

[8]  Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data:

"Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772–1934." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.

[9]  “United States Census, 1850,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M68P-1GT : accessed 14 Feb 2013), Moses Y Beach in household of Moses Y Beach, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States; citing dwelling 425, family 501, NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 46.

[10]  Heman Ely. Records of the descendants of Nathaniel Ely, the emigrant… (Cleveland, Ohio: Short & Forman, Printers and Stationers, 1885), p. 84.

[11]  "Connecticut, Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7KM-9JT : accessed 13 Feb 2013), Moses Y. Beach, 19 Jul 1868; citing reference 101, FHL microfilm 3367.

[12]  "Connecticut, Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F7H5-9MK : accessed 13 Feb 2013), Nancy Day Beach, 12 Jul 1880; citing reference , FHL microfilm 3086.

[13]  Record for Nancy Day Beach at findagrave.com.

 

[14] Ancestry.com. Daily Commercial Register (Sandusky, Ohio), 28 May 1852 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2006.