August Anniversary: Burrell Fortenberry & Eliza Ellzey; 1850

As we look at records that are older & older it becomes more & more difficult to track down an exact wedding date. When we do find an old church or other record it is exciting. 

Burrell Taylor Fortenberry

1820 MS – 14 Sept4ember 1863 MS

Son of William Jasper Fortenberry & Violette Kennington

&

Eliza Jane Ellzey

5 September 1830 MS – 4 April 1899

Daughter of John Ellzey & Elizabeth Coney 

My 4^thgreat aunt & uncle

Married

15 August 1850; 170 years ago

Source: Adrianne Fortenberry Criminger, THE FORTENBERRY FAMILIES OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI; 1677-1984; South Carolina, Southern Historical Press, Inc, 1984.

Parents of

John Narvel Fortenberry

William Jackson Fortenberry

Henry F. Fortenberry

Benjamin C. Fortenberry

Luke T. Fortenberry

Other August Anniversaries:

2 August 1927 OH     Roy Jesse Brown & Ivy Regina Mark    93 years ago

My paternal grandparents

8 August 1948 NY     Delbert Keith Brown & Alberta Joy Gardner   72 years ago

My parents

22 August 1872 OH     Joseph Wolf & Anna Eliza Kohr     148 years ago

25 August 1866 Ireland     Daniel Mullane & Brigid English     154 years ago

My 2x great grandparents

28 August 1937     Ralph Clayton Kauffman & Margaret Maude Mark     83 years ago

29 August 1880     Amos Ritter & Emma Levina Smith     140 years ago