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DAY, Isaac Butler

City: Henderson

DAY, Isaac Butler, retired educator and minister of the Gospel; born at Spring Creek, Madison Co., Tenn., Jan. 18, 1837; son of Lemuel and Mary (Senter) DAY; father’s occupation farmer; paternal grandfather John DAY; his paternal grandmother was a Miss HOWARD prior to her marriage; maternal grandparents William and Jenney (Butler) SENTER; graduated from Madison College, Spring Creek, Tenn., with A.B. degree in 1859; reared on a farm, and taught school forty years; was a local minister of the gospel forty-two years; married twice, first Emma J. JAYNE Aug. 13, 1862; second Mrs. L.J. WINSLOW Nov. 30, 1905; served four years in the Confederate army during the civil war as Lieutenant Co. “E” 6th Tenn., Infantry; member F. & A.M.; member of the Methodist Church.

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