Ishmael Day

Ishmael Day

Born on March 20, 1792 in Baltimore County and Christened 16 JUN 1793 at Saint James Protestant Episcopal Parish, Baltimore, Maryland. Ishmael Day was the son of Edward and Mary Day in the 11th District of Baltimore County in Maryland. His birthplace was off of the current Mount Vista Road. He was married to Charity Johnson on March 21, 1822 at the St Johns Parish Protestant Episcopal, in Kingsville, Maryland in Baltimore County, Maryland which still stands and is in use as of 2007. Charity Johnson Day died in 1846 and he married again to Ann E. Day which died in 1868 at 63 years of age. Ishmael Day died December 27, 1873. Buried in the same vicinity of Day and his two wives is a Jenny Day which died October 1, 1836 aged 1 year and 10 months which would have been the daughter of Charity Johnson Day. This family is buried at Fork United Methodist Church's cemetery.

Little is known of his life except that during the American Civil War he was sympathetic to the Union Army in a neighborhood that had sympathy for the Confederate Army. His home on Sunshine Avenue in Fork, Maryland near Mount Vista Estates and the intersection of Harford Road was the site of a tragedy on July 11, 1864. When the advance guard for Harry Gilmor's raiders was in the area, Ishmael Day placed a large Union flag over his gate. Gilmor's Ordinance Sergeant Eugene Fields told Day to take the flag down. After Day refused, an argument followed and Ishmael Day shot Sgt. Field at close range with a shotgun. Gilmor's men burned Day's home and Day immediately fled- hiding under a cider press for days until the passing troops were gone. The mortally wounded Sgt. Field was taken to Wright's Hotel operated by W.O.B. Wright on Harford Road accompanied by Gilmor where Field later died.

After this incident, Day fled into the nearby fields and hid under a cider press for several days until he could escape into the city of Baltimore. After a time, he returned and rebuilt his home. Ishmael Day died and is buried in the cemetery of Fork United Methodist Church in Fork, Maryland.

[http://www.gbgm-umc.org/fork-waugh/history.html Fork United Methodist Church Page]


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