Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

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Ruth Day

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Amelia Earhart — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 27 
  • Father:
  • Aaron Day 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Cahoon   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1784 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Aug 1855 
  • Death Location:
  • Owego, Tioga, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Gideon Curtis
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1807 
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  • Child:

  Caroline Abigail Curtis (Ahnentafel No:13 )

  • Notes: 

  • George Edward Day's A Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of Robert Day (p. 68) states that the wife of Gideon Curtis is a daughter of Aaron and Mary Day of Spencertown, New York. However, George Day's listing does not list the names for all of the children of Aaron and Mary Day. He also lists a daughter named Lucia, a sister of Ruth, as having been baptized on 28 MAR 1742. Since Aaron Day was born at Colchester, Connecticut, in 1740, this is not possible. However, a more reliable genealogy presented by Homer Brainard in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (1903, Vol. 34, p. 20) states that Aaron Day married an Abigail Cahoon, daughter of John Cahoon and Grace Fuller. A deed of sale regarding land from the estate of Abigail's uncle Isaac Fuller shows that she was married to Aaron Day prior to 21 JUN 1776. It would seem that Abigail Cahoon is the actual mother of Ruth Day.

• Sources for Ruth Day

  • ¹ Curtis, Harlow Dunham, comp., A Genealogy of the Curtiss-Curtis Family of Stratford, Connecticut: A Supplement to the 1903 Edition, Stratford, Connecticut: Curtiss-Curtis Society of Stratford, Connecticut (1953), 130.
  • ² Otis, William A., A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Chicago: Unknown (1924), 281.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/06/2017).
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 490.

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