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Hugh Day's ancestral line goes back generations to Robert Day who was born in Ipswitch, Suffrolk, England in 1606 and came to Cambridge, Massachusetts in about 1634 and died in Hartford Connecticut in 1648. He and his wife Mary had a son named Thomas Day who was born in Cambridge in 1634 and died in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1711. Next was John Joseph Day (1676 -1752). Then came three Williams, William Day (1714-1777), William Day (1742-1815), and William Day Jr. (1773-1815). The latter moved to Vermont and from there to Leeds, Ontario, Canada.

Hugh Day was born in about 1810 in a place called Bastard in Leeds, Ontario, Canada. He married Rhoda Day Nichols there in 1830 and there they had five children. Three, Almeda, Lydia, and William were born before their parents joined the Church in 1835. John was born and died the same day in Jefferson County, Illinois in 1837. and (Rhoda) died at an early age after they moved to Illinois. In 1844 in Nauvoo Rhoda died while giving birth to Rhoda Ann who also died.

Hugh married Susannah Judd in Florence Nebraska in 1846 and they had two children while living in Pottawatamie, Iowa. Hugh took his family to Utah in the William Snow and Joseph Young Company of 1850. The group included Hugh and Susannah, their two children, Almeda age 18 and her husband (William McLellan), Lydia Maria age 17, and William Sheldon age 14. The next year Lydia married Benjamin T Mitchell. During the next 20 years they had 11 children, but only 6 lived beyond childhood. Lydia and Benjamin Mitchell's 4th child, Alonzo Abraham, married Marion Ross Young, daughter of Phineas Young and Eleanor James. And that is how the Day, Mitchell, and Young families were linked together. Hugh Day, Phineas Young, and Benjamin Mitchell were prominent men in Salt Lake City.Lydia Maria Day was the sixth wife of Benjamin T Mitchell. She was was born in Leeds, Ontario, Canada. Her parents were Hugh Day and Rhoda Ann Nichols. She had an older sister named Amanda.

Her fathers ancestry in America goes back six generations. Robert Day and his wife Mary were both born in Ipswich, Suffolk England in1604. In 1629 at age 25 they were married in Kilburn, Yorkshire, England. They soon emigrated to the United States and were living in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1634. For a while they also lived in Ipswich Massachusetts at the time of his death in 1648 he was living in Hartford , Conneaut.

William Day Jr was born in Rutland , Vermont in 1773. In 1796 at the age of 23 he married Elizabeth Johns of Leeds, Ontario Canada and they moved to a place called Bastard, Leeds Ontario, Canada. (That Place is now called Rideau Lakes.) A child, Elizabeth, was born in 1897, Loldica and Joel were born in 1801, Loura was born in 1803, Hugh was born in 1909, and Sarah Ann was born in 1811. William Day Jr died in 1815. Elizabeth lived until 1830.

Hugh Day was only 6 years old when his father died. In the year his mother died he was age 21 and that was when he married Rhoda Ann Nichols. Her parents had also moved from Rutland Vermont. Her ancestors were from England and Wails but had been in the United states for six or seven generations.

Hugh and Rhoda had six children Amanda was born in 1831, Lydia was born in 1833, and William born in 1835 were born in Leeds.

That was when the Church came into their lives. Parley P Pratt was serving a mission in Ontario, Canada and several people significant in church history such as John Taylor, Wilford Woodruf, and the Fielding Family came into the church. Hugh was baptized on 29 December 1835. Rhoda was baptized 30 December 1836. After they joined the Church the headed for Nauvoo. John was born in LeRay, Jefferson Illinois in 1837. Hugh's wife, Rhoda Ann, died in Nauvoo in November 1844 after giving birth to a daughter named Rhoda Ann.

Hugh married Susanna Jud in 1846 and the family went to Utah in a wagon train company lead by William Snow and Joseph Young in 1850 and settled in Salt Lake City. Hugh Day is listed as one of the prominent pioneers and settlers of Utah.

Hugh blev gift med Rhoda Ann Nichols den 13 dec. 1830 i Bastard, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. Rhoda (datter af Sheldon Nichols og Susannah Chipman) blev født den 18 feb. 1813 i Bastard, Leeds, Ontario, Canada; døde den 9 nov. 1844 i Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

William blev gift med Elizabeth (Betsy ) Johns i 1796 i Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA. Elizabeth blev født den 11 maj 1778 i Vernon, Tolland, Connecticut, USA; døde den 17 maj 1831 i Bastard, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Sheldon blev gift med Susannah Chipman den 19 nov. 1810 i Bastard Tp, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. Susannah blev født den 8 maj 1792 i Otter Creek, Addison, Vermont, United States; døde den 18 jan. 1883 i Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]