DAY, Jesse G. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

-- Hillsboro Oct 8 - Jesse Day, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Day of this city died Monday morning at 9 o'clock from influenza. Mr. Day had just recently been honorably discharged from the navy. He had been enlisted since April 26 and had been across the Atlantic Ocean several times. Before his discharge he had been in a hospital in Virginia. He came home a little over a week ago and has been under the care of a special nurse since that time. The family is under quarantine as two other brothers are ill with the influenza but are not regarded as critically ill. The funeral will have to be private. The deceased was 24 years old and oldest of a family of several children. The remaining six and parents survive. -- kbz