Emma V. Day (née, Winegarden; June 10, 1853 – August 10, 1895) was an American Christian missionary.

On the establishment of their home at the Muhlenberg Mission in Liberia, Africa, she took upon herself the training of the children.

[1][2] Emily (nickname, "Emma") Virginia Winegarden[2] was born June 10, 1853, in Philadelphia.

Her last letter to her husband, shortly before her death, expressed a fear that he might desire to come home on her account.

Later, her husband requested to have her body exhumed and buried in the cemetery at Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, which occurred on November 25, 1896.

[3][5] The epitaph on the tomb she shared with her husband read in part:—[5] "Africa weeps.

[4] By 1898, a hospital building was added to "The Emma V. Day Memorial Industrial School for Girls".