Is your birthday in December? Happy Birthday!
Maybe you share your special day with someone in our family who came before. Look below and see. I posted this series back in 2011. This version has been updated with more information. I hope you find it as much fun as I do.
Even if it is not your birthday, look at the highlighted SURNAMES. Maybe you will see a name from your family & learn a little more about them.
Click on the links to learn more about the people & places.
16 December
1872 David J. MCMILLAN
1877 William Calvin FORTENBERRY, son of William Franklin Fortenberry & Mariah B. Hall, husband of Hettie Alice Alford
1879 Mary POLLACK was born in South America, daughter of David Pollack & Mary English. She grew up in Ireland and came to the USA in 1885 with her cousin, Mary Josephine (Mullane) Coyle.
17 December
1898 Elma M. BLADES
1912 Ross POWELL
1933 Hugh Frances BROWN, son of Hubert Allen Brown & Freddie Smith. He married Frances Birch and had two sons.
18 December
1918 Arnell Wessie WILSON was the daughter of Thomas Clarence & Euna Clarabelle (Fortenberry) Wilson. She married Eugene C. Pigott.
19 December
1850 John William RITTER, b OH, son of Isaac Ritter & Isabell Fisher. Husband of Ruth Anna Scott. He has the same birthday as his brother, Amos.
1858 Amos RITTER, son of Isaac Ritter & Isabell Fisher, husband of Emma Levina Smith. Amos lived 94 years
1937 Kenneth Leroy MARK, b in OH, one of 11 children of James Everett Mark & Effie Margaret Carter.
20 December
1840 Margaret Ellen SWANK
1869 Joseph Davis BRUMFIELD, b in Mississippi, son of Isaac Nelson Brumfield & Sarah J. Smith. He married Annie Quinn.
1877 Alfred M. SCHILLING
21 December
1806 Jacob WOLF, son of John Frederick Wolf
1888 Bridget COYLE was born in Connecticut, daughter of Patrick Coyle & Margaret Brady. She married Bernard William Kelly. They had no children.
1903 Isabell Esther MARK, daughter of Thomas Kenneth Mark & N. Regina Victoria Gruissy
22 December
1856 Olevia Luminda FORTENBERRY married Jeptha Josephus Alford on 18 February 1874. He was the son of Ira Payne Alford & Elizabeth Hope. Olevia and Jeptha’s son was George Howard Alford (1875 – 1958).
1897 Edna J. FORTENBERRY, daughter of Thomas Benton Fortenberry & Gabriella Sanders
1902 Elma Grace Pletcher JOLLIFF
23 December
1773 Jeremiah SMITH, b in South Carolina, son of Jeremiah Smith & Jemimah Hollis. He married Joanna Dillon on 16 December 1798. They had 13 children. Jeremiah died in 1843 in Mississippi. He was my fourth great grandfather.
1840 Rachel Ellzey Smith SCHILLING
1860 Frederick Jacob WOLF, son of William Wolf & Sarah Jane Wilson; He lived 90 years.
1873 Catherine COYLE, born in Ireland, daughter of Patrick Coyle & Margaret Brady
1882 Celia Euseba SMITH, daughter of Walter Lorraine Smith & Emma J. Warren
24 December
1835 Warren M. HUFFMAN
1854 James Monroe BRUMFIELD, son of Isaac Nelson Brumfield & Sarah J Smith
1884 Annie Myrtis ELLZEY
1886 Blake H. WALDO
1900 Lyda Mearl Brown PIERCE
1901 Marguerite Christina COYLE was born in New York City, daughter of Michael Coyle & Mary Josephine Mullane. On 29 December 1933 she married Wilfred Stewart Marshall. She died 13 march 1980 in Arizona.
25 December Christmas!
1860 Elizabeth RITTER was born in Ohio, daughter of Isaac Ritter & Isabell Fisher. She married William Hawk on 22 February 1880. They had six children, all born in Ohio: Gertrude, Forest, Lulu, William, John and Ruth. She died 1 January 1950.
1862 Mary Fortenberry ELLZEY
1870 Thomas MULLANE, son of Daniel Mullane & Brigid English
1881 Mary Louise FORTENBERRY
1901 Luther Vernon FORTENBERRY
1902 Willie Webb MORRIS
26 December
1861 Margaret Jane GRUISSY was born in Ohio, daughter of Augustus Ceaser Gruissy & Mary Ann Everett. She married Seth Benner Morrison on 24 October 1880. They had eight children. Margaret died 8 March 1946.
1937 Mildred Fay TURNAGE
1942 Jimmie Joe MORRIS
27 December
1739 Johann Jonas WOLF, born in PA; son of Johan Jacob Wolf & Anna Barbara Orth; He was my 5x great grandfather.
1764 John RITTER, born in PA; son of Casper Ritter
1857 Mary Jane ELLZEY
1863 Letitia Susan BLADES
1907 Milton Sydney WEISSBERG was born in Buffalo, New York, son of Frank Samuel & Florence (Gartner) Weissberg. On 26 December 1937 he married Anne Bloom. They had a son and a daughter. Milton was a lawyer. He was my first cousin, once removed.
1917 Claudia Martha BRUMFIELD, daughter of John Edward Brumfield & Ada Beatrice Fortenberry; wife of Elmo Fortenberry
28 December
1799 William M. FORTENBERRY, born in SC; son of Isaac Fortenberry; husband of Christian Brown
1839 Frederick Calvin WOLF was the son of Frederick Wolf & Louisa C. Goetz. He married Eleanor Getz. Frederick died in 1907.
1879 Patrick Joseph COYLE, born in Ireland; son of Patrick Coyle & Margaret Brady; husband of Nancy Guilette
1914 James Albert BRUMFIELD, son of John Edward Brumfield & Ada Beatrice Fortenberry
29 December
1777 Esther Barbara SHAFFER, wife of John Frederick Wolf. She was my 4x great grandmother.
1874 Susan Isabel RITTER
1886 Martha BRACEY
1890 Ina Lucille BROWN, born in Mississippi, daughter of Jasper Pascal Brown & Rose Ella Brumfield. She married Dewitt William Alford. They had seven children: Devoe, Doris, Bruce, Zelda, Mary, Louise and Lindy. Ina died in 1972.
30 December
1842 George Washington FORTENBERRY, born in South Carolina, son of Calvin Kennington & Narcissa (Simmons) Fortenberry. He married Emily Pittman.
31 December
1763 Appollonia WOLF, born in Pennsylvania, daughter of Johann Jonas Wolf & Appollonia Dick.
1787 Willis D. DILLON, son of Richard Dillon & Anne Lawrence; husband of Mary Jane Smith
1886 Clark Rudy WOLF
