Joseph H. Day was born in Madison County, Tenn., in 1849. He is the son of George W. and Sarah (Wilson) Day, who were born in Virginia and Mississippi, respectively. George W. Day was a Baptist divine, and .was engaged in ministerial labors for forty-three years. He died in Madison County in 1879, being in his seventy-sixth year. His mother died in 1856, about thirty-six years of age. The father was married three times, the subject being a son of the second wife. Our subject was reared in Madison County, and for the last six years has been engaged in the hotel business in Jackson. In the year 1872 he married Mattie E. Burgess, daughter of Abram Curtis and Nannie (Hudson) Burgess. She was born in North Carolina in 1855, and came to Tennessee in 1868. Her parents were natives of North Carolina, and reared a family of four children. He died in 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Day became the parents of one child, named Clarence Curtis, who died at the age of three years. Mrs. Day is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Day is a Democrat in politics.

Goodspeeds History of Tennessee