[4304] CAROL (CARRIE) BARTON DAY
4/30/1883 - 7/21/1951.
m.7/14/1909 Christopher Noss, a widower with six children by whom Carol had six
of her own. They were missionaries stationed in Japan, under the Reformed Church
in the United States. {4515} Charles Day Jr., after his father's death found
among his possessions a 25 page detailed genealogy of the Noss
family written by Carol's husband, apparently in about 1934. He says his
wife was first named Carrie Barton, after a girlhood friend of her mother. At
school this became Carolyn and then Carol, concerning whom he says:“Her mother died rather suddenly when she was but eighteen months old.
Her older sister Harriet, then thirteen, took the mother's place for a few
years, until she went off to teach school. Mother's childhood was forlorn, but
wholesome and happy; for the women of the village loved and did much for her in
various ways. She attended Bacon Academy in Colchester Center, working in
private homes for her board. Her record was good. Meanwhile her sister Harriet
became the wife of Mr. William Henry Fenn II, whose aunt, Mrs. William Henry
Fenn I, wife of a clergyman in Portland, Maine, a woman of means but childless,
came forward and proposed to send to college the younger sister of her niece by
marriage. So Mother, to her great delight, was given four years at Mount Holyoke
College, where she graduated in 1905. She served an apprenticeship as teacher at
Easthampton, Massachusetts. Meanwhile Miss Helen Stahr had founded Miss Stahr's
school in Lancaster, Pa. She wanted a teacher for the primary grades. Miss Day
was recommended to her and her associate, Miss Alice Byrne. Miss Byrne went to
New York City for a personal interview and engaged Miss Day, September, 1906. It
was Miss Byrne also who persuaded Mrs. Christopher Noss just before her death to
send her daughter Annabelle to the same school (now the Shippen School for
Girls) as a scholarship pupil. Annabelle loved Miss Day from the first, and it
was largely due to her secret prayer that her teacher became Mrs. Christopher
Noss July 14, 1909.
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