1831 - 1933

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• Birth	28 Nov 1831	Bastard,Leeds,Ontario,Canada
  Gender	Female
  Died	22 Jun 1933	Salt Lake City,Salt Lake,Ut
  Buried	26 Jun 1933	Salt Lake City,Salt Lake,Ut
  Person ID	I89157	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2004 00:00:00
  Father	Hugh DAY, b. 31 Jul 1809, Bastard,Leeds,Ontario,Canada
  Mother	Rhoda Ann NICHOLS, b. 18 Feb 1813, Bastard,Leeds,Ontario,Canada
  Family ID	F38959	Group Sheet
  Family	William Carroll MCCLELLAN, b. 12 May 1828, Shelbyville,Bedford,Tn
  Married	19 Jul 1849	Little Pigeon,Pottawatamie,Ia
  Notes	CHAN24 May 2000
  Children	1. Mary Almeda MCCLELLAN, b. 11 May 1850, Little Pigeon,Pottawatamie,Ia   2. William Hugh MCCLELLAN > 3. Maria Matilda MCCLELLAN, b. 2 May 1854, Payson,Utah,Ut   4. Cynthia Lovesta MCCLELLAN, b. 2 May 1856, Payson,Utah,Ut > 5. James Jasper MCCLELLAN, b. 29 Dec 1858, Payson,Utah,Ut   6. Sarah Evaline MCCLELLAN > 7. David Alvin MCCLELLAN, b. 16 Jun 1865, Payson,Utah,Ut   8. Samuel Edwin MCCLELLAN > 9. Rhoda Ann MCCLELLAN   10. George Alma MCCLELLAN, b. 13 Jun 1872, Payson,Utah,Ut   11. Charles Eli MCCLELLAN
  Family ID	F38958	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Cause of Death: 97 years old Ancestral File Number: 17 OBJE: C:\MYSTUFF\PHOTO\D\DAY\DAYALMDA.JPG OBJE: C:\MY STUFF\PHOTO\D\DAY\DayAlmeda.jpg Sketch of the Life of: ALMEDA DAY McCLELLAN Prepared by her grand daughter Zitelle McClellan Snar r ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm no artist, don't know anything about painting. But I 'm going to present a word picture of my little paternal gr andmother, Almeda Day McClellan, who lived to be nearly 10 2 years old. Some of this information was obtained from actual contac t with grandmother. Parts from her children, my father, Ge orge A. McClellan, his youngest brother-Professor Charles E . McClellan of Logan, Utah and other Aunts, Uncles and cous ins. After grandfather McClellan died in 1916, grandmothe r lived in our home at times, and she used to dwell in th e past a great deal in memory. I can picture her now, stan ding with her arms folded across her back...her shoulders h eld erectwith a slight rocking motion...she talked to me a s she ironed. She spoke ofthings that were important to h er in days gone by. I wish now that I had been more attenti ve then, and had been wise enough to question her along cer tain lines. I was a member of the Pioneer Stake Sunday Sch ool Board at the time, and was trying to think out a lesso n I had to present. Sometimes I becamea bit irked with he r for interrupting my train of thought, even though I didw rite down many of the things she told me during those years. "If Youth could know what age would crave full man y a penny youth would save" It is an oldadage & I would pa raphrase it to read: "If youth, the wisdom of age would crave, More patience with the aged, youth must have." After I was married in 1925, I became the corresponding S ecretary for the Salt Lake County Board of the Daughters o f Utah Pioneers, and began to realize the importance of rec ording more of the experiences in grandmother's life. Bu t if she ever saw me writing things down as she talked, sh e would stop immediately and move away, saying; "What do yo u want to write it down for? I might be wrong." She was atiny woman, physically, but she never asked any one else to lift the heavy endof the load. She passed thr ough the hardships of pioneer life, of relativepoverty, al l of her days. Guy C. Wilson said of her passing: "I'm sur e therenever was a soul who could do that with more grac e and courage than Almeda McClellan. She bore the burden s of life without complaint. She was a patientGod-fearin g woman." Toward the end of her days, her youngest son Charlesonc e asked her what was the greatest trial she had endured i n the course of her long life. "Trials," she mused, "neve r had any." Uncle Charles recalled some of her experiences ... she was a frail, delicate baby. Only weighed 21/2lbs . at birth. As a child, she crossed the St. Lawrence Rive r on the ice.Lived with her in-laws for a while after mar riage to William C. McClellan who had just returned from th e long trek with the Mormon Battalion. They started acros s the plains for the west by ox team with a 5 week old baby . Theyspent about 4 years in the United Order up at the s aw mill at Sunset, Arizona. They pioneered Payson, Utah; B righam City, Arizona; and Colonia Juarez inold Mexico at t he age of 81 years. "Wasn't that hardship and trials?" he asked. "Humph!" sh e responded "all in a day's work!". Grandfather added.."Wh at we did was just ordinary. Just what there was to do. Y ou do what you have to do in this life, and that's just wha t we did. We just happened to livein that time." -------- ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------- 1920 census- 1930 Census- Almeda died of Pneu monia @ 1933 Almeda Day was born to Hugh Day and Rhoda Ann Nichols on November 28, 1831newar whis is now Brockville, Canada, about 50 m

• Sources

  [S1515] GEDCOM File : 2124652.ged, Sue McClellan (rgmvoegl@hotmail.com), (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=:2124652&id=I107471544), 8 Jun 2002.