July Family Birthdays, July 1 - 15

Is your birthday coming soon? Maybe you share your special day with someone in our family. Look below and see. Happy Birthday!

1 July                     

1876       Clementine Florence WOLF b. in Ohio, daughter of Joseph & Anna Eliza (Kohr) Wolf

2 July                     

1865       Amanda Adarene FORTENBERRY b. in Mississippi, daughter of William J. & Elizabeth Martha (Cutrer) Fortenberry.  She married William S. Ellzey c. 1883. Amanda was the mother of ten children. She died in 1949.

1881       Edith Edna RITTER

3 July                     

1825       Rees P. BROWN b. in Mississippi, one of seven children of Moses & Nancy (Perkins) Brown.  Children: Samantha & Anna Brown.

1866       Elizabeth Ellen NEE

4 July                     

1823       Nathan RITTER

1940       William Andrew MARK b in Ohio, son of Charles Forest & Bertha (Flickinger) Mark. Married Linda Lou Danner. Children: Robin, Michelle & William Mark. 

5 July                     

1879       William Isaac RITTER b. in Ohio, son of John William & Ruth Anna (Scott) Ritter. He married Louise Sophia Schultz.  They had six children.

1885       Spencer Sylvester McDANIEL

6 July                     

1753       Elizabeth RITTER

1879       Willie Edgar SMITH was my 1^st cousin 3x removed. He was the son of Walter Lorraine & Emma Julia (Warren) Smith. He died in 1879 at the age of 13.

1927       Vern James SIMONS

1935       Virginia Burton NEE

7 July                     

1831       Richard WOLF

1884       George B. WOLF

1900       Lola Dean FORTENBERRY was the daughter of Joseph Gazie & Corine (McDaniel) Fortenberry.

1920       Elnora Marie RITTER

8 July                     

1800       Hollander SMITH

1857       Alfred FORTENBERRY Jr.

1889       Carrie Belle WOLF

1937       James Paul BALL b. in Louisiana, son of James Alton & Mildred Olga (Brown) Ball. He married Wreatha Jean Sorrell. Children: David, Roger, James & Lisa Ball. He is my 1^st cousin, 1x removed.

9 July                     

1852       Albert Harrison BALLIET b. In Pennsylvania, son of Stephen & Ann (Lowrey) Balliet. He married Josephine Edna Ebert. He died in 1907 in New York State.

1870       Joseph Gazie FORTENBERRY

1939       Frederick Ralph BROPHY

10 July                   

1795       Lydia KNAUSS

1894       John Ellsworth HAWK b. in Ohio, son of William & Elizabeth (Ritter) Hawk. He married Ethel Miller. 

11 July                   

1787       Jonathan RITTER

1852       Eliza H. MORRIS

1878       Mayme Indiana SIMMONS

1894       June THORNHILL son of James Miles & Violette Eliza (Fortenberry) Thornhill. June died in 1910 at the age of 16 in Mississippi.  

12 July                   

1789       Needham Judge ALFORD

1872       Louis Flemon ALFORD b. in Louisiana, son of Needham Edwin & Mary Luzina (Strafford) Alford. He died in 1938.

13 July                   

1938       Charles Philip MORRIS

14 July                   

1864       John BRADY b. in Cavan, Ireland, son of Thomas & Catherine (Gibney) Brady. He married Mary McCartin. Children: Thomas, Bernard & John Brady all born in New Jersey. John Brady was my 2^nd great grand uncle.

1891       Irene Elizabeth ELLZEY Simmons

1915       Ruth Ann RITTER

15 July                   

1816       Mehala SMITH

1842       Mary Elizabeth FORTENBERRY

1872       Catherine BRADY

1875       Helen E. VOELKER

1920       Jerry Sidney COMEAUX

1932       Patricia Ann BROCK lived her life in Mississippi where she married Fay Seward Smith, son of Denny Herbert & Mavis Marie (Brown) Smith. Their children: Patricia, Michael & Kim Smith. Patricia & Fay were warm, generous people who showed us hospitality when we visited them in Mississippi. Patricia helped with my genealogy research & with the Alford Family Association.