July Family Birthdays, July 15 - 31

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

16 July        

1805    Gasua Chapman FORTENBERRY was born in South Carolina, son of William Jasper & Violette (Kennington) Fortenberry. He married Sarah Brown. He was a farmer.  They had nine children. Gasua died in 1884 in MS.

17 July        

1893    Frederick Isaac RITTER was born in Ohio, the son of Anthony Casper & Emma Alice (Mowrer) Ritter. He married Ella Mae Sprankle. Their children: Kathryn & Dean Ritter.  Frederick Isaac Ritter served in World War I.

18 July        

1867    Rose Ella Brumfield lived in MS. She was the daughter of Jessie Alexander & Martha Elizabeth (Alford) Brumfield. She married Jasper Pascal Brown in 1887. They had nine children. Rose was my great grandmother.

1925    John Snyder

19 July        

1879    Thomas Kenneth MARK lived his life in Ohio. He was the son of William & Elidia Rebecca (Ritter) Mark. He was a farmer & a carpenter. He married N. Regina Gruissy in 1903. They had seven children, all born in Ohio. He lived to be 95 years of age.
1916    Gladys May MOORE

20 July        

1746    Anna M. GERMANTOWN
1852    William Franklin ELLZEY was born in MS, son of John Shaffer & Saryntha (Smith) Ellzey. He married Mary Elizabeth Gatlin. They had eight children. He was a farmer on a general farm.

21 July         

1815    Martin B. RITTER
1845    Frederick Jacob WOLF
 1882    Nathaniel GARDNER was my maternal grandfather. He was born in New York City, son of Leopold & Florence Gartner. He worked for the Western Union Telegraph Company for over 50 years, beginning as a messenger boy and becoming a branch manager. On 9 May 1921 he married Helen Francis Coyle. They had one daughter, Alberta Joy (Gardner) Brown.

22 July        

1914    Marian Louise MOORE

24 July        

1747    Casper RITTER
1866    Martha A. ALFORD married William J. Smith, son of William J. M. & Rachel (Ellzey) Smith. She had seven children. She died in 1926.
1914    Marian Louise MOORE

25 July        

1929    Everett Leroy WILSON was the son of Thomas Clarence & Euna Clarabelle (Fortenberry) Wilson. He was my 4th cousin, 1x removed.

26 July        

1806    Edward S BROWN
1808    Theobald RITTER
1867    Samuel J ELLZEY
 1878    Dixie Irene SMITH was the daughter of Adolphus Scott & Julia Jane (Simmons) Smith. Adolphus Smith was a dentist. She married Hugh Algernon Brown.
1928    Mavis Addie DYKES

27 July        

1766    Nathaniel RITTER
1780    Johann Philip RITTER
1851    John H. WOLF
1855    Robert R. RITTER
1905    Vera Victoria MARK
1928    Delbert Keith Brown was my father. He was born in Ohio, the oldest child of Roy Jesse & Ivy (Mark) Brown. On 8 August 1948 he married Alberta Joy Gardner. They lived in Germantown, NY. Delbert was a mechanic & trucker.

28 July        

1915    Clarence William WILSON was the son of Thomas Clarence & Euna Clarabelle (Fortenberry) Wilson.

29 July        

1842    John D. BRUMFIELD was born in Louisiana, son of Nathaniel & Charlotte Temple (Ott) Brumfield. He married Zadie Martin. Children: John D. T. & James H. John was a farmer in Washington Parish, Louisiana.  He died in 1903.
1912    Marshal Heigle
1922    Eugene C. PIGOTT

30 July        

1854    Elidia Rebecca RITTER
1872    Cora Bell MARK was born in Ohio, daughter of William & Emma Abeline (Flory) Mark. She married Edward Newell. Children: Edna and Maude. She died in 1905.
1889    James Ray MILLER

31 July        

1915    Ruth Geneva JOLLIFF was born in Ohio, daughter of Samuel Martin & Margaret Maude (Mark) Jolliff. She married Herbert Phillip Mullen, Sr. in 1936. Their son is Herbert Phillip Mullen, Jr. She was my 1st cousin, 2x removed. We corresponded at one time and she shared some genealogy information. She died in 1997.